Fix for ticket #226 (saved projects with postgres layers in a map composition won't reload).

g_j_m · g_j_m · commit 8de53bd84397 · 2006-08-24T09:58:37.000Z
git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/trunk/qgis@5730 c8812cc2-4d05-0410-92ff-de0c093fc19c
diff --git a/src/gui/qgsmaplayer.cpp b/src/gui/qgsmaplayer.cpp
@@ -73,7 +73,13 @@ QgsMapLayer::QgsMapLayer(int type,
     // Generate the unique ID of this layer
     QDateTime dt = QDateTime::currentDateTime();
     ID = lyrname + dt.toString("yyyyMMddhhmmsszzz");
-    ID.replace(" ", "_");
+    // Tidy the ID up to avoid characters that may cause problems
+    // elsewhere (e.g in some parts of XML). Replaces every non-word
+    // character (word characters are the alphabet, numbers and
+    // underscore) with an underscore. 
+    // Note that the first backslashe in the regular expression is
+    // there for the compiler, so the pattern is actually \W
+    ID.replace(QRegExp("[\\W]"), "_");
 
     QString myThemePath = QgsApplication::themePath();
     mInOverviewPixmap.load(myThemePath + "/mActionInOverview.png");
