Bug report #19377

v.buffer processing algorithm fails when using option "Name of column to use for buffer distances".

Added by Alister Hood over 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:High
Assignee:Alexander Bruy
Category:Processing/GRASS
Affected QGIS version:3.5(master) Regression?:Yes
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:Yes Resolution:fixed/implemented
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:27205

Description

The v.buffer processing algorithm has an option "Name of column to use for buffer distances". This option is useless, because grass requires a "layer" to be specified (e.g. "1", when the default is "-1", which means all layers), and as far as I can see the processing algorithm does not allow to specify the layer.
See output below.

...
C:\PROGRA~1\QGIS3~1.2\bin>v.buffer input=vector_5b44604f92e7116 type="point,line,area" angle=0 column=cat scale=1 tolerance=0.01 -t output=outputae6bb217e084496cabf18ac4d297ed04 --overwrite 

ERROR: The bufcol option requires a valid layer.

C:\PROGRA~1\QGIS3~1.2\bin>v.out.ogr -c type="auto" input="outputae6bb217e084496cabf18ac4d297ed04" output="C:\Users\alistair\AppData\Local\Temp\processing_c1fa50c12d554ca1a5f64704b76c206c\36818b4836744d33b763fed661144855\output.shp" format="ESRI_Shapefile" --overwrite 

ERROR: Vector map <outputae6bb217e084496cabf18ac4d297ed04> not found
...

P.S. the option isn't actually "bufcol" as printed in the error message - I guess that is an upstream copy/paste error from when the GRASS team were messing around with different versions of v.buffer.

Associated revisions

Revision bfb60e4d
Added by Alexander Bruy about 5 years ago

[processing] fix GRASS v.buffer algorithm for case when buffer distance
is taken from the field (fix #19377)

Revision a90fb87c
Added by Alexander Bruy about 5 years ago

Merge pull request #8973 from alexbruy/grass-buffer

[processing] fix GRASS v.buffer algorithm for variable buffer case (fix #19377)

Revision 33319595
Added by Alexander Bruy about 5 years ago

[processing] fix GRASS v.buffer algorithm for case when buffer distance
is taken from the field (fix #19377)

(cherry picked from commit bfb60e4dc70310eae0e3b2ef9200c3b78164c6f4)

History

#1 Updated by Alister Hood over 5 years ago

  • Regression? changed from No to Yes
  • Priority changed from Normal to High

Actually, this is a regression, because 2.18.x has a working v.buffer.column algorithm.
Still a problem in 3.4.2

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 5 years ago

  • Assignee set to Giovanni Manghi
  • Affected QGIS version changed from 3.2 to 3.5(master)

#3 Updated by Alexander Bruy about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to In Progress
  • Pull Request or Patch supplied changed from No to Yes
  • Assignee changed from Giovanni Manghi to Alexander Bruy

#4 Updated by Alexander Bruy about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

#5 Updated by Alexander Bruy about 5 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed/implemented

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