[Qgis-developer] Add Attributes, Features and Geometries to QgsVectorFileWriter

[Josua Stähli]

Hello

I found out that it works when I initialize the layer like this:
QgsVectorLayer("Point?crs=epsg:21781&field=name:string(255)&field=description:string(255)", "temp", "memory")

So my code looks like this:

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layer = QgsVectorLayer("Point?crs=epsg:21781&field=name:string(255)&field=description:string(255)", "temp", "memory")
feature = QgsFeature()
feature.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPoint(QgsPoint(1, 2)))
feature.setAttributes(["namex", "xyz"])
layer.dataProvider().addFeatures([feature])
QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat(layer, "/path/to/file.geojson", "utf-8", None, "GeoJSON")
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But is there a possibility to directly write it to a file with the QgsVectorFileWriter without using the memory layer?

It would be nice if PyQGIS Developer Cookbook (http://www.qgis.org/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/vector.html#writing-vector-layers) is updated, the second example still contains QVariant.

Thank you very much.

Josua

From: josh-talk at hotmail.com
To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:09:42 +0100
Subject: [Qgis-developer] Add Attributes,	Features and Geometries to QgsVectorFileWriter




Hello
My goal is to write some features and geometries to a JSON file. I searched for examples however in QGIS 2 (I am using 2.2) something seems to have changed so it does not work. Here is a very simple example of what I want to do:

fields = QgsFields()fields.append(QgsField("name"))fields.append(QgsField("description"))writer = QgsVectorFileWriter("/path/to/file.geojson", "utf-8", fields, QGis.WKBPoint, None, "GeoJSON")feature = QgsFeature(fields)feature.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPoint(QgsPoint(1, 2)))feature.setAttributes(["name", "xyz"])writer.addFeature(newFeature)del writer

The result is a JSON file with the following content:

{"type": "FeatureCollection",                                                                                "features": [{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { }, "geometry": null }]}

So the feature is added but attributes and geometry are ignored. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong? I also tried to create a memory layer:

layer = QgsVectorLayer("Point", "temp", "memory")provider = layer.dataProvider()layer.startEditing()provider.addAttributes([QgsField("name"), QgsField("description")])feature = QgsFeature(fields)feature.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPoint(QgsPoint(1, 2)))feature.setAttributes(["namex", "xyz"])provider.addFeatures([feature])layer.updateFields()QgsVectorFileWriter.writeAsVectorFormat(layer, "/path/to/file.geojson", "utf-8", None, "GeoJSON")

The result looks a little bit better:

{"type": "FeatureCollection","crs": { "type": "name", "properties": { "name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::21781" } },                                                                                "features": [{ "type": "Feature", "properties": { }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 1.0, 2.0 ] } }]}

But the attributes are still missing. Does anybody know how this is done correctly? Thank you very much!
Josua 		 	   		  

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