Hi Devs, Does anyone know if it's possible to (programatically) load a layer as a geometyless table? In other words, say I have a shapefile named foo.shp, is it possible to load foo.dbf without the spatial information? I know I can open PostGIS tables, and even csv files this way... but if I try this with a dbf file that has an associated .shp file, it automatically loads the shp files as well.I see from the QgsOgrProvider source that there is a setRelevantFields() function which looks to do what I want (uses OGR's SetIgnoreFields, where we can use the special "OGR_GEOMETRY" specifier), but it is protected, and my initial attempts to alter things to get access to it do not seem to have worked... Any suggestions? Ultimately, what I'd like to be able to do is white a simple plugin to load geometryless tables for joining etc in QGIS. I'm about 90% of the way done (it already works for csv files, and lone dbf files), but I'd like something a bit more generic so it could work with pretty much any ogr supported format. Has anyone else already done such a thing?
Cheers, Carson -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth, http://www.carsonfarmer.com/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
