Opened 8 years ago
Last modified 8 years ago
#6344 closed defect
OGR_G_SetPoints behavior is not coherent — at Version 1
| Reported by: | Ari Jolma | Owned by: | warmerdam |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 2.1.0 |
| Component: | OGR_SF | Version: | unspecified |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description (last modified by )
There is no !SetPoints_2D function in the C API and the comment in the docs next to z param of SetPoints says that "defaults to NULL for 2D objects".
There are separate SetPoint and !SetPoint_2D functions and SetPoint upgrades a 2D point to a 3D point.
SetPoints used on a 2D point upgrades it to 3D point. When it is used on a LineString the behavior depends on stride arguments. If they are zero, the z can be used to force the line string 2D or 3D. If they are not, the line string is always forced to 3D.
I think the coherent behavior should be similar to SetPoint if z is not null and similar to !SetPoint_2D if z is null. The doc should say "set to NULL for 2D objects, non-null upgrades the geometry to 3D".
