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List:       qgis-developer
Subject:    Re: [Qgis-developer] Multiple geometry columns per layer
From:       Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn () gmx ! ch>
Date:       2012-11-30 16:49:29
Message-ID: 50B8E399.7060208 () gmx ! ch
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> So right now we have QgsFeature that contains ID, attributes and a 
> geometry. I think we should keep that as-is because this is what is 
> usually expected from a layer.
And the users would be forced to deal with yet another pretty strong API 
change besides the API changes you plan to commit.

>
> In order to support multiple geometries per feature, we could possibly 
> allow QgsGeometry class as another attribute type (next to int, double 
> and QString). So providers like postgis that support multiple geometry 
> columns could return additional geometries wrapped as attributes in 
> QVariant. Would that work for you?
This would work perfectly well. I'm wondering how much work it would 
mean to get this.

Matthias
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