Bug report #8258

QgsVectorDataProvider.uniqueValues returns not None but QPyNullVariant

Added by Minoru Akagi over 7 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Python plugins
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:fixed
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:17062

Description

Open polygons.shp (testdata on #8219). The second field of the attribute table is a string type and includes NULL values. Then, in the python console:

>>> layer = iface.activeLayer()
>>> provider = layer.dataProvider()
>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)
[<PyQt4.QtCore.QPyNullVariant object at 0x10CABFB8>, u'pentagon', u'quadrangle', u'triangle']

>>> f = QgsFeature()
>>> provider.getFeatures( QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFid( 0 ) ).nextFeature( f )
True
>>> f.attributes()
[u'f', None, 10]

>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)[0] == None
False

QGIS version:
1.9.0-Master Master, 630427f

History

#1 Updated by Matthias Kuhn about 7 years ago

Will now be:

>>> layer = iface.activeLayer()
>>> provider = layer.dataProvider()
>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)
[NULL, u'pentagon', u'quadrangle', u'triangle']

>>> f = provider.getFeatures( QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFid( 0 ) ).next()
True
>>> f.attributes()
[u'f', NULL, 10]

>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)[0] == None
False
>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)[0] is None
False
>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)[0].isNull()
True
>>> if not provider.uniqueValues(1)[0]:
>>>     'it is NOT'
'it is NOT'

Now everything returning a NULL attribute returns a QPyNullVariant (by design) but will be represented as "NULL" on the console

#2 Updated by Minoru Akagi about 7 years ago

The evaluation of (None == None) is True. But the evaluation of the following conditional expression is False.

>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)[0] == f.attributes()[1]
False

It makes sense to me that (QPyNullVariant == QPyNullVariant) is evaluated as True.

#3 Updated by Nathan Woodrow about 7 years ago

You would think so but it's not the case.

We should be able to fix that by overloading the eq method. Hold tight.

#4 Updated by Nathan Woodrow about 7 years ago

We can just do this:


from types import MethodType
from PyQt4.QtCore import QPyNullVariant
def __nonzero__(self):
    return False

def __eq__(self, other):
    return True

QPyNullVariant.__nonzero__ = MethodType(__nonzero__, None, QPyNullVariant)
QPyNullVariant.__eq__ = MethodType(__eq__, None, QPyNullVariant)

which will work like so:


>>> n = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n2 = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n == n2
True

Just be aware this doesn't compare the internal type of QPyNullVariant so maybe we should just compare that rather then returning True. In practice should this work?


>>> n = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n2 = QPyNullVariant('int')
>>> n == n2
True

or do we not really care in this case? Because we are just trying to do: NULL == NULL

#5 Updated by Nathan Woodrow about 7 years ago

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

This is as fixed as we are going to be able to do.


>>> n = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n2 = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n == n2
True
>>> n = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n2 = QPyNullVariant('int')
>>> n == n2
True
>>> n = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n == None
True
>>> n = QPyNullVariant('QString')
>>> n is None
False
>>> n = 100
>>> n2 = QPyNullVariant('int')
>>> n == n2
False

There is also a new shortcut NULL type in qgis.core which is a QPyNullVariant. So you can just do:


>>> from qgis.core import NULL
>>> provider.uniqueValues(1)[0] == NULL
True

#6 Updated by Minoru Akagi about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Reopened

Great works! Thanks, Matthias and Nathan!!

Now the evaluation of the following conditional expression is True.

>>>  provider.uniqueValues(1)[0] == f.attributes()[1]
True

However, the following is also True!

>>>  provider.uniqueValues(1)[0] != f.attributes()[1]
True

Probably, we should override ne method too as below:

    def __ne__(self, other):
        return not self.__eq__(other)

    QPyNullVariant.__ne__ = MethodType(__ne__, None, QPyNullVariant)

#7 Updated by Nathan Woodrow about 7 years ago

Good catch!

Will fix that now.

#8 Updated by Minoru Akagi about 7 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • Status changed from Reopened to Closed

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