[QGIS-Developer] GDAL drivers and availability in QGIS

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 23/02/2019 02.13, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>> As an example: we could add a 'ESRI json' item in the file-open
>> dropdown, with filter esrijson and json? But should we also add an
>> esrijson protocol option?
>> GDAL/OGR will actually pick the right driver anyway: opening [3] as
>> geojson will happily show the esrijson as features...
>>
>> Personally I'm ok with adding all the options, as I think they also show
>> the possible flavours or file extensions possible.
> 
> I think we should be pushing users to use the native FeatureServer
> provider here, as it has several advantages:

Nyall, ok for the FeaturesServer protocol this is clear then: hide it
there.

Question: But should we then (only) add it to the Files-open? Because
having a esrijson file on disk, it could be handy to be able to open it?
Currentl FeatureServer provider only provides opening of online data
(which I think is fine)

Question: Then same for SaveAs, I think we should add it, as it could be
handy to be able to save some shp/json dataset to a esrijson file, eg
because you want to see what it looks like or because something is going
wrong?

Question: about file extensions... nope I'll do that in separate thread

Regard,

Richard Duivenvoorde