[QGIS-Developer] [processing] Allow to use expressions on géométries in RefactorFields

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi,

I wouldn't have any problem with having one algorithm for all of this.
Personally I tend to think of geometry as just another attribute (in
good old database manner).

The only thing I would be worried about is the naming which will make it
hard to discover for people looking to only modify the geometry. A
possibility would be to rename it to "refactor feature", "refactor
fields and geometry" or expose multiple algorithms (based on the same
code internally), "refactor fields", "refactor feature", "refactor
geometry".

Cheers
Matthias

On 10/26/2017 11:44 AM, Arnaud Morvan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A customer ask us to allow, in refactor fields, the use of an expression
> to calculate the output geometry.
> 
> I know that the orientation in QGIS 3.0 is to have simple algorithms
> instead of having complex ones,
> it that direction, it should make sense to create another algorithm to
> do that.
> 
> But another side, having this functionnality in refactorfields allow
> doing complex things without need to create a model.
> 
> Does anyone has an opinion on this ?
> 
> Regards
>