Thanks Even, that it’s not so bad. I can “wait” until ICreateFeature and if it’s the first feature create the number of fields it has.
But, then, what happens with other fields that can appear after in next features? I might ignore them, but... it’s not a good thing. Can they appear later or not? I haven’t understood it at complete. Thanks! De: Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> Enviado el: dilluns, 2 d’octubre de 2023 16:19 Para: Abel Pau <a....@creaf.uab.cat>; gdal dev <gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org> Asunto: Re: [gdal-dev] Number of fields when creating layer? Abel Pau, no you can't know the number of fields at the moment of creating the layer. A number of drivers only accept the CreateField() method to be called until the first call to ICreateFeature(). Cf the "bFeaturesWritten" variable in ogr/ogrsf_frmts/jml/ogrjmlwriterlayer.cpp Typically ogr2ogr will never call CreateField() after ICreateFeature() Even Le 02/10/2023 à 15:54, Abel Pau via gdal-dev a écrit : Hi everybody, do anyone know if a driver can know the number of fields (and it’s names, etc) of a layer BEFORE starting fetch features? So in the moment of create the layer. I mean, when a driver is creating the own layer it could probably be interested in creating all fields before starting and not in the middle of translation. It could be caused because the output format requires that in terms of efficiency. For instance, first feature have 3 fields, second feature have four, etc... Until the last feature driver is not sure of all fields are definitive. And every time a feature is added the driver have to verify in which destination field corresponds to the new one. So, I accepted that it happens with the number of features (Even can remember my concerns that time) and I am wondering if I have to accept that for the number of fields. Thanks a lot. Abel Pau Garcia GIS developer [https://www.creaf.cat/sites/default/files/creaf-signature.png] a....@creaf.uab.cat<mailto:a....@creaf.uab.cat> Let's chat on Teams!<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=a....@creaf.uab.cat> Tel. +34 934814277 [https://www.creaf.cat/sites/default/files/so-en-signature.png] [https://www.creaf.cat/sites/default/files/twitter-icon-signature.png]<https://twitter.com/CREAF_ecologia>[https://www.creaf.cat/sites/default/files/linkedin-icon-signature.png]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/1363052?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical:company,clickedEntityId:1363052,idx:2-1-2,tarId:1465807877789,tas:creaf>[https://www.creaf.cat/sites/default/files/youtube-icon-signature.png]<https://www.youtube.com/c/creafecologia>[https://www.creaf.cat/sites/default/files/instagram-icon-signature.png]<https://www.instagram.com/CREAF_ecologia/> www.creaf.cat<http://www.creaf.cat> | http://blog.creaf.cat [https://www.creaf.cat/sites/default/files/uab_logo_signatura.png] CREAF. Campus UAB. Edifici C. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Before printing this electronic message, think about the environment. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- http://www.spatialys.com My software is free, but my time generally not.
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