If set, all geometries will be reprojected from their original
coordinate reference system to the destination CRS while
iterating over features.
If a CRS has been set as the destination CRS, then the filterRect
parameter should be specified in the same CRS as this destination
CRS.
Additionally, a callback function can be specified on the request
to be called if a transform exception is encountered while
iterating over features.
This is designed to make it easier for scripts and plugins to
correctly reproject layers in an efficient and robust way, instead
of having to implement lots of repeated code themselves and
potentially missing some of the important considerations which
come with reprojecting geometries & bounding boxes.
Now, if a script wants the features from a layer in a specific
CRS, they can call:
crs = QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem('epsg:4326')
request = QgsFeatureRequest().setDestinationCrs(crs)
for f in layer.getFeatures(reqeuest):
print('geometry in 4326 is {}.format(f.geometry().exportToWkt()))
This enum value has not been in use since filter rects were
separated from other filter types. Leaving it in API is confusing
and leads to incorrect use.
The order of the elements is irrelevant and duplicate elements are unwanted. It
is therefore a perfect candidate for a set instead of a list. This prevents
filtering for duplicates manually be replacing some filer codes with (more
performant) builtin methods of QSet.
Adds new methods overloads to QgsVectorLayer
getFeatures( expression )
getFeatures( ids )
getFeature( id )
These three methods to query features are by far the most used ones
and with this patch it is much easier to write and read code.
Limits the maximum number of features returned by the iterator.
Some providers (postgres, spatialite, MS SQL) pass the limit on
to the provider to result in faster queries.
Rationale:
- there was a lot of large objects passed by value, so potentially
there's a speed bump from this
- even for implicitly shared classes like QString/QList there's still
a (small) cost for copying the objects when there's no reason to
- it's the right thing to do!
