Nyall Dawson 55027e545f Clean up and extend expression geometry functions:
- New expression functions for area(geom), perimeter(geom),
point_n(geom), start_point(geom), end_point(geom), make_point(x,y)
- Add new variant to length() function which takes a geometry object,
allows for length(geom) evaluation.
- Rename x_at, y_at to $x_at, $y_at (alias old names) to reflect that
these only work on current feature geometry
- Add x(geom), y(geom) functions which return x and y coordinate
for point geometries or centroid x/y for non-point geometries
(fix #11008)
2015-09-18 09:09:09 +10:00

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{
"function": "length",
"description": "Returns the number of characters in a string or the length of a geometry linestring.",
"variants": [
{ "variant": "String variant",
"variant_description": "Returns the number of characters in a string.",
"arguments": [ {"arg":"string","description":"string to count length of"} ],
"examples": [ { "expression":"length('hello')", "returns":"5"} ] },
{
"variant": "Geometry variant",
"variant_description": "Calculate the length of a geometry line object. Calculations are in the Spatial Reference System of this geometry.",
"arguments": [ {"arg":"geometry","description":"line geometry object"}],
"examples": [ { "expression":"length(geom_from_wkt('LINESTRING(0 0, 4 0)'))", "returns":"4.0"}]
}]
}