[Qgis-developer] Fields/attributes

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Chris,

1) I don't think there is any limit.  The name is just stored as a QString
so anything it supports QGIS should too.

2) I have noticed that too it is quite confusing at times.  To me fields
should refer to the column information, and attributes should refer to the
data it self, but that is not always the case in the API.

- Nathan


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Chris Crook <ccrook at linz.govt.nz> wrote:

> Couple of questions with regard to QgsFeature fields and attributes:
>
> 1) Are there any guidelines/constraints regarding field names.  The
> delimited text provider can take names from the first line of a text file,
> and that can be very arbitrary.  I'm wondering if I should put more
> constraints on the names (maximum number of characters, valid character
> set, other...)
>
> 2) It seems that fields get referred to in various places as fields and
> attributes in the API.  Is there any logic to this.  That is to say, where
> should I use the word "field", and where should I use the word "attribute"?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
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