[Qgis-developer] [Processing] how to handle selections

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Hi Victor,

what do you think about enhancing processing's vector.features with an 
additional optional flag that returns the selection no matter if the 
option is set or not?

Bernhard

Am 19.01.2017 um 10:35 schrieb Victor Olaya:
> Good catch
>
> I fixed it and now it uses the selected features, regardless of the
> config parameter. The change is in 2.18 and master branches
>
> Thanks!
>
> 2017-01-18 10:44 GMT+01:00 Bernhard Ströbl <bernhard.stroebl at jena.de>:
>> Hi all,
>> processing sports the "Save selected features" algorithm. However if in
>> processing's options you untick "Use only selected features" the algorithm
>> outputs _all_ features of the input layer. Although I know that processing
>> works only on selections when the option is ticked IMHO the current
>> behaviour is not intuitive: if an algorithm in its name (and help) claims to
>> do something with the selected features it should do that _all the time_.
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Background: I opened a PR [1] yesterday for an algorithm that works on
>> selected features all the time (won't make sense otherwise) and would like
>> processing to be consistent in that respect.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Bernhard
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/4011
>>
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