Hi,
I've written a new RFC to add the capability to delete fields, reorder fields
and alter field definitions, in OGR layer definitions.
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc35_deletereorderalterfielddefn
Currently, an OGR layer definition can only be altered to add a new field
definition with OGRLayer::CreateField(). It is desirable to extend OGR
capabilities to be able to delete, reorder and alter field definitions of
existing layers. Such wish has been expressed in ticket #2671 and comes back
regularly on QGIS mailing list (e.g. http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-
user/2011-May/011935.html). QGIS currently has a "Table Manager" extension to
work around the lack of DeleteField(), so a proper solution is clearly needed.
I'd appreciate review and comments. I've attached a patch to ticket
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2671 with the implementation, as well as a
Python test.
Best regards,
Even
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