[gdal-dev] Preserving feature Information from Shapefile

[Wuerfel, Hannes]

Hi all,

I'm new to gdal OGR Simple Feature Library.
What I'd like to do is to read an esri shapefile, modify the geometry and feature information and write a new shapefile to disc.
I went through the read/write tutorial and I can write back the Geometry to the new shapefile but I'm stugged with copying the other feature informations.

Can somebody please explain to me how it should be done?

What I do is basically this:

open the source file
fetch a layer
determine the geometry type used
open the destination file
create destination layer with source Layer Spatial Reference and source geometry type
and then:
while(srcFeature = srcLayer->GetNextFeature()) != NULL)
{
      // no working feature duplication ...

     // working ogrgeometry duplication
     // ...
     // destinationFeature->SetGeometryDirectly(...);
}

Best regards.
Hannes