[Qgis-developer] non integer ID and python

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi all,

I have a small problem in my quickfinder plugin (finds a feature by its id).

For postgis layers, I have no problem to find a feature using its id. 
But, I can't achieve this with shapefiles for example.

I understand this as the IDs of shapefiles are store in strings.

Apparently, in the SIP of QgsFeature, QgsFeatureId is defined as a qint64.
Also, in the SIP of QgsFeatureRequest, the setFilterFid method takes 
qint64 as argument.

So my question, is there a way to look for a feature by its ID in python 
if it's not an int???

And if not, do you consider it easily changeable??? How?

Thanks a lot!

Denis