[GRASS-dev] probable v.db.connect -g parsing problem

[Maris Nartiss]

This is not an issue for gis.m in 6.5. Layer output of v.db.connect
isn't used/parsed, as user's provided layer number is used.

I was not able to find any (easy to spot) way how to name a layer, but
IIRC there are some modules, that add a name to layer during it's
creation.


Maris.


2009/8/24, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I notice a probable problem parsing v.db.connect's -g output. An
> extra term containing the layer-name (if present) is added to the
> first data column. e.g. if layer 1 had the name "layer_name"
>
> G> v.db.connect -g fields2 fs='|'
> 1/layer_name|fields2|cat|.../$MAPSET/dbf/|dbf
>    instead of
> 1|fields2|cat|.../$MAPSET/dbf/|dbf
>
>
> see v.db.connect/main.c "if (fi->name) { fprintf( ..."
>
> probably the solution is not too bad, just take the .split("/")[0]
> term when dealing with column 1 in the GUI code.
>
> I am not an expert in these things so I ask: under what conditions
> would a vector DB layer have a name? Is it seen in the wild or is
> it just an unused nice idea someone had?
>
>
> Hamish
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