implement add/del field for Shapefiles

[msieczka]

Now that creation of new fields in an existing DBF table via OGR is possible [1] please implement this functionality in table editor fro Shapefiles.

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2672

[jef]

patch that enables adding of attributes in shapefiles via OGR

[jef]

OGR still doesn't support deletion of fields.

[wonder]

Replying to jef:

OGR still doesn't support deletion of fields.

Indeed it doesn't, however there's a patch pending:

 http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2671

Martin

[mhugent]

One issue I had with this patch: after commiting the added fields, they where not visible in the attribute table and with the info tools. I had to remove and reopen the layer to have the fields in the attribute table. Would it be possible to reopen the OGR datasource inside the ogr provider after adding fields?

Thanks, Marco

[mhugent]

I'm suggesting to push this to 1.0.1 to have more time for testing

[pcav]

Would this be the right time to apply it to trunk?

[jef]

Replying to pcav:

Would this be the right time to apply it to trunk?

applied in r9982

[anonymous]

Milestone Version 1.0.1 deleted