On 5 Apr 2016 17:17, "Sandro Santilli" <s...@keybit.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:25:35AM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > On 3 April 2016 at 01:27, Sandro Santilli <s...@keybit.net> wrote:
>
> > > Being able to use canvas-dependent variables (extent and scale,
> > > mostly) would help a lot with speeding up some kind of query
> > > layers (TopoGeometry ones, for example).
> >
> > Be aware that this would not be possible in a vector layer filter.
> > Expressions at the vector layer level will only have access to global,
> > project and layer variables. Think about it this way - if the project
> > has multiple maps in various composers, which extent and scale would
> > be used when fetching features from the layer for something which
> > isn't specific to an individual map (Eg the attribute table).
>
> How's the current support for "simplify at the provider side" done ?
> It seems to have the exact same constraints of the ones you're
> mentioning (yes, I've seen the recent thread about $area parameter
> changing value across zoom levels, which seems to be one of those
> side-effects).

That's done on the feature request.

What's the topology issue you're hoping to solve with this?

Nyall

>
> --strk;
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