[Qgis-developer] morph delimited-text-provider to generic table-provider?

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 07/10/2016 02:16 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> 
> 
> @mattias: mm, if I load a strict csv table (be it csv or excel),
> containing an x and y column, according to this blogpost:
> http://www.opengis.ch/2015/12/10/geometry-generator-symbology/
> I should be able to select a geometry generator in styles.. but with a
> table the styles is ... empty :-(

Fixing that should be possible.

Extending the CSV provider would result in rewriting a lot of driver
code which is already present in OGR.

I'd rather use one of the two methods

 * Geometry generators
 * Virtual layer

To build this functionality on top of any existing provider.

Matthias