Expose QgsLayerTree in the API
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The current MapLayer implementation cannot deal with hierarchical layers (e.g. layer groups).
Instead of doing our own abstraction, we should expose the QGIS internals: QgsLayerTree, QgsLayerTreeModel, QgsLayerTreeNode, QgsLayerTreeGroup, QgsLayerTreeLayer.
Based on this API, one should be able to build a hierarchical layer tree widget.
+1 ... exposing layer tree will be useful.
One note: QgsLayerTreeModel is most likely not needed here - it is mainly used for Qt model/view stuff.
(And it would be very useful to also have a GUI widget which could be used to control the layer tree!)