Changes to support a comment for each attribute in vector data. Now

requires support in providers. Addresses ticket #244.


git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/trunk/qgis@6612 c8812cc2-4d05-0410-92ff-de0c093fc19c

src/app/qgsvectorlayerproperties.cpp

@@ -523,6 +523,9 @@ QString QgsVectorLayerProperties::getMetadata()
   myMetadataQString += "<th bgcolor=\"black\">";
   myMetadataQString += "<font color=\"white\">" + tr("Precision") + "</font>";
   myMetadataQString += "</th>";      
+  myMetadataQString += "<th bgcolor=\"black\">";
+  myMetadataQString += "<font color=\"white\">" + tr("Comment") + "</font>";
+  myMetadataQString += "</th>";      
   myMetadataQString += "<tr>";
  
   //get info for each field by looping through them
@@ -543,6 +546,9 @@ QString QgsVectorLayerProperties::getMetadata()
     myMetadataQString += "</td>";
     myMetadataQString += "<td bgcolor=\"white\">";
     myMetadataQString += QString("%1").arg(myField.precision());
+    myMetadataQString += "</td>";
+    myMetadataQString += "<td bgcolor=\"white\">";
+    myMetadataQString += QString("%1").arg(myField.comment());
     myMetadataQString += "</td></tr>";
   } 
 

src/core/qgsfield.cpp

@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ static const char * const ident_ =
    "$Id$";
 
 
-QgsField::QgsField(QString nam, QString typ, int len, int prec, bool num)
-    :mName(nam), mType(typ), mLength(len), mPrecision(prec), mNumeric(num)
+QgsField::QgsField(QString nam, QString typ, int len, int prec, bool num,
+                   QString comment)
+    :mName(nam), mType(typ), mLength(len), mPrecision(prec), mNumeric(num),
+     mComment(comment)
 {
   // This function used to lower case the field name since some stores
   // use upper case (eg. shapefiles), but that caused problems with
@@ -75,6 +77,11 @@ bool QgsField::isNumeric() const
   return mNumeric;
 }
 
+QString const & QgsField::comment() const
+{
+  return mComment;
+}
+
 void QgsField::setName(QString const & nam)
 {
   mName = nam;
@@ -96,3 +103,7 @@ void QgsField::setNumeric(bool num)
 {
   mNumeric = num;
 }
+void QgsField::setComment(QString comment)
+{
+  mComment = comment;
+}

src/core/qgsfield.h

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ public:
      * used in conjunction with other fields types (eg. variable character fields)
      * @param num Has to be true if field contains numeric values.
      */
-  QgsField(QString nam = "", QString typ = "", int len = 0, int prec = 0, bool num = false);
+  QgsField(QString nam = "", QString typ = "", int len = 0, int prec = 0, bool num = false, QString comment = "");
 
   //! Destructor
    ~QgsField();
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ public:
   bool isNumeric() const;
 
 
+    /** 
+    Returns the field comment
+    */
+    QString const & comment() const;
+
     /**
       Set the field name.
       @param nam Name of the field
@@ -109,6 +114,11 @@ public:
       */
   void setNumeric(bool num);
 
+    /**
+      Set the field comment
+      */
+  void setComment(QString comment);
+
 private:
 
   //! Name
@@ -126,6 +136,9 @@ private:
   //! Numeric
   bool mNumeric;
 
+  //! Comment
+  QString mComment;
+
 }; // class QgsField
 
 #endif

src/providers/postgres/qgspostgresprovider.cpp

@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ QgsPostgresProvider::QgsPostgresProvider(QString const & uri)
         int fldtyp = PQftype(result, i);
         QString typOid = QString().setNum(fldtyp);
         int fieldModifier = PQfmod(result, i);
+        QString fieldComment = "";
 
         sql = "select typelem from pg_type where typelem = " + typOid + " and typlen = -1";
         //  //--std::cout << sql << std::endl;
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ QgsPostgresProvider::QgsPostgresProvider(QString const & uri)
 
         if(fieldName!=geometryColumn)
         {
-          attributeFields.insert(i, QgsField(fieldName, fieldType, fieldSize.toInt(), fieldModifier));
+          attributeFields.insert(i, QgsField(fieldName, fieldType, fieldSize.toInt(), fieldModifier, false, fieldComment));
         }
       }
       PQclear(result);