[Gdal-dev] GetNextFeature error handling

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/18/05, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Im trying to file away an outstanding bug in QGIS:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1211058&group_id=55820&atid=478378
> 
> If you look at the stack trace that the original poster kindly provided, you
> will notice that the problem occurs in OGRShapeLayer::GetNextFeature (). Of
> course the real cause of the problem is that the user has an invalid
> shapefile (there is inconsistency with the number of points compared to the
> number of dbf recs).
> 
> My question is, is there any way to gracefully trap this error?
> 
> I tested on gdal 1.2.6 btw

Tim, 

I tried the bad shapefile from the bug report with the current ogrinfo and
it just emits an error message but doesn't crash.  I did apply a patch to 
OGR when this problem was discussed a week or two ago (on IRC?), so 
that may be why I don't get a crash.

By the way, it looks like the dbf has no fields. 

Best regards,

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