[Qgis-developer] JOIN error

[Ramon Andiñach]

On 19/12/2011, at 03:15 , Agustin Lobo wrote:

> I use Properties/JOINS to join a dbf table to a vector layer
> (fields ISO and ISO3 respectively). The Join works, but
> I get the following error when I  try to save the vector layer as
> a new shapefile:
> Export to vector file failed.
> Error: Feature write errors:
> Invalid variant type for field X[11]: received void with type
> Invalid variant type for field X[11]: received void with type
> (many times repeated)
> Only 24 of 246 features written.
> 
> The new layer is actually written (despite claiming "Export to vector
> failed") but only those countries with data in the dbf are available
> 
> Instead, the old Vector/Data Management Tools/Join Attributes
> works fine. I suggest having that part of the Vector plugin back, even
> if redundant, until we reach operational equivalence.
> 
> I provide the layer and dbf:
> https://sites.google.com/site/filestemp2/home/wrld_simpl.zip
> https://sites.google.com/site/filestemp2/home/owlslive.dbf
> 
> I'm using 1.7.3 from ubuntigis-unstable binaries for ubuntu 10.04
> 

I can confirm this.

I also tried removing the X column from the dbf file, but the error moved to the next field with nulls (GMI_CNTRY), which was a string.

I'm a little puzzled why a null value would be a problem if the file did save successfully.

-ramon.