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+/** polyline is just a list of points */
+typedef QMap<int, QgsField> QgsFieldMap;
+
+/** \ingroup analysis
+ * The QGis class provides vector geometry analysis functions
+ */
+
+class QgsOverlayAnalyzer
+{
+%TypeHeaderCode
+#include <qgsoverlayanalyzer.h>
+%End
+
+  public:
+
+    /**Perform an intersection on two input vector layers and write output to a new shape file
+    */
+    bool intersection( QgsVectorLayer* layerA, QgsVectorLayer* layerB,
+                       const QString& shapefileName, bool onlySelectedFeatures = false,
+                       QProgressDialog* p = 0 );
+
+  private:
+    void combineFieldLists( QgsFieldMap fieldListA, QgsFieldMap fieldListB );
+    void intersectFeature( QgsFeature& f, QgsVectorFileWriter* vfw, QgsVectorLayer* dp,
+                           QgsSpatialIndex* index );
+};