[Qgis-developer] Problem using vector data provider in python

[Chris Crook]

Thanks Ivan

It looks like that could work, but I'm hoping to short circuit that a bit, as in the end what I want are QgsFeature objects.  

The data provider is getting exactly what I want, except that it is not exposing (to Python) the functions from QgsVectorDataProvider, only those from the base QgsDataProvider class. 

I guess if there is no better way I could use the ogr module, but I'll end up replicating in Python a bunch of code that is already written in the OGR data provider, which seems a bit wasteful :-)

Cheers
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Mincik [mailto:ivan.mincik at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2010 9:42 a.m.
To: Chris Crook
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Problem using vector data provider in python

> I'm wondering if it is possible to use a QgsVectorDataProvider independently from a map layer in Python.  For example, I'd like to open a GML file and read features, etc from it without creating a map layer.

Hi Chris,
if You want to read GML in some script, You can use GDAL python bindings.
"from osgeo import ogr"

Ivan
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