[Qgis-developer] attributeIndexes

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Hugo,

On Thu, 22. Jan 2015 at 17:59:45 +0100, Hugo Mercier wrote:
> What is the intention behind QgsVectorDataProvider::attributeIndexes() ?
 
> It is used in very few places. It returns a list of integers ... and if
> I am correct will always return a list [0 ... n-1] if n is the number of
> fields. I don't really get the point ...

> Was there something else planned initially ? Something related to
> (database) indexes ?

Probably just the opposite.  The attributes used to be kept in a map and not an
array and attributeIndexes returned the keys.


Jürgen

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