[Qgis-developer] Remove editing functions from QgsVectorLayer

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

On Tue, 16. Apr 2013 at 19:26:52 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
>    Personally I'm not a fan of that.
>    Why don't we make startEditing() return a edit buffer/edit session. So you
>    could do this:
>    session = layer.editSession()
>    session.addFeature(feature)
>    ...
>    session.commitChanges()
>    This would mean that everyone can keep their own edit buffers and can do
>    what they want.  Means you could also doing this:
>    with layer.editSession() as session:
>         session.addFeature(...)
>    which will commit the features at the end.
>    - Nathan

And would would those session interact?   Does vector layer render everything
that got added in any session and skip everything that was deleted in any
session?   Can stuff added in one session already be removed in an other?
How would rollback/undo/redo work?  



Jürgen

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