Bug report #5788

fTools Check geometry doesn't find NULL geometry features

Added by Pieter Roggemans over 12 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Processing/QGIS
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:
Operating System: Easy fix?:
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:invalid
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:15280

Description

The check geometry tool doesn't report features without any points...

The Buffer_problem_result shape file in attachment can help to reproduce...

PS: tested in versions 1.8 an 1.7.4

Buffer_problem.zip (72.3 KB) Pieter Roggemans, 2012-06-12 04:08 PM

History

#1 Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 12 years ago

  • Target version set to Version 2.0.0

#2 Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 11 years ago

  • Category set to 44

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 11 years ago

  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

I see your point, but the "Check geometry validity" tool does what it advertise, it checks if the geometries are right or wrong. In this case you have a vector with a few records in the table of attributes with no geometries associated, and this is admitted (or am I wrong?). Please reopen if necessary.

#4 Updated by Daniel Vaz over 11 years ago

Sorry.. wrong ticket

#5 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 11 years ago

Daniel Vaz wrote:

Please, can you attach some dataset to reproduce the bug?

the sample is attached to this ticket.

One layer is the input for a negative buffer operation. As a few features are smaller than then buffer distance, then they disappear, but the records in the table of attributes are not deleted. the resulting vector is then inconsistent, as it has records in the table of attributes but no geometry associated.

This issue has been described in another ticket.

This ticket is invalid anyway because the tool do checks the validity of existing features, does not check the validity of non existing ones :)

#6 Updated by Daniel Vaz over 11 years ago

Sorry I posted this message in a wrong ticket..

#7 Updated by Pieter Roggemans over 11 years ago

I looked it up, and indeed a null polygon is valid according to the specs of the shapefile format.

So indeed not a bug, but normal behaviour.

#8 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 11 years ago

Pieter Roggemans wrote:

I looked it up, and indeed a null polygon is valid according to the specs of the shapefile format.

ok good to know, anyway I think that the buffer tool should delete the records of non existing polygons when it comes to negative buffers. Daniel posted a patch for this.

#9 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago

The "ftools" category is being removed from the tracker, changing the category of this ticket to "Processing/QGIS" to not leave the category orphaned.

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