[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] JOIN error

[Agustin Lobo]

Thanks for the double check, I open a ticket.
Could Vector/Data Management Tools/Join Attributes
be made available again?

Agus

2011/12/19 Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au>:
>
> On 19/12/2011, at 6:57, Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> fwiw, this also fails if you reprocess the owl data as csv (with a csvt).
>
> And confirmed with some internal datasets.
>
> (that said, I can understand why you would want to save the joined file, but generally I use this as an intermediate step.)
>
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