Can I enable edit mode programatically?

Is there way to enable edit mode programatically? Right now I’m looping through the drawControl toolbars looking for one which has “edit” as an option, and saving it off for later use.

It seems like there should be an cleaner way to do this, but I couldn’t find one.

for(var i in drawControl._toolbars){
    if(typeof drawControl._toolbars[i]._modes.edit != 'undefined'){
        editHandler = drawControl._toolbars[i]._modes.edit.handler;
    }   
}   

// Much later… editHandler.enable(); // Later still… editHandler.disable();

[eaigner]

The API seems kind of inflexible. Everything relies on the default toolbar. Would be greatly appreciated if everything could be done in code without any default UI.

[ghost]

I had some problems with the solution from my last comment (regarding “undo’ing” edit changes) so I came up with another one (which also seems a bit nicer):

// disable the original edit toolbar so that there aren't two ways to edit layers
drawControl = new L.Control.Draw({edit: false});

// manually create an edit toolbar (which won't be visible) when the page loads
// use a new feature group to hold the layer that is being edited (and not the map's
// "real" feature group)
editFeatureGroup = L.featureGroup();
editToolbar = new L.EditToolbar({
  featureGroup: editFeatureGroup
})

// get toolbar edit handler (this should probably be done with a loop like in the OP)
editHandler = editToolbar.getModeHandlers()[0].handler

// this is hacky but needed otherwise enabling the edit mod will fail when the code
// attempts to fire map events for edit start etc
editHandler._map = map

To manually enable editing on a certain layer:

editFeatureGroup.addLayer(layer)
editHandler.enable()

And to disable it:

// revert layers (optional)
editHandler.revertLayers()

// disable layer editing
editHandler.disable()
editFeatureGroup.removeLayer(layer)