latest version of QGIS fails to edit attribute table of GeoJSON file





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I am using QGIS 3.6.4 and working with GeoJSON files. I have come across a very annoying problem. Whenever I try to add an attribute and assign values to it using the field calculator, the values will appear to update and the field looks correctly populated. However as soon as I exit out of the attribute table (while saving changes) and reopen it the entire column is converted to NULL.



I have tried playing around with the precision and width of the output field to no avail. I don't think this is related to coordinate system units since this is not a geometric operation of type $area or $length. It is more like Acol1+Bcol2.



Has anyone had such an issue before? Please help... I would have thought basic functionality like this is already well tested and bug free in QGIS....



EDIT



Other symptoms include:




  • new field disappears if I remove the layer and add it again from file location, despite having saved layer changes....

  • a separate geojson file called result.geojson.tmp is created and contains the modified attribute table. However my result.geojson is unchanged. Adding an attribute field and populating it should not create a new file but modify the current one in place... why does this happen?

  • I have also attempted this with QGIS 3.6.1 - Same problem.


The problem appears to be under discussion in the QGIS issue tracker










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  • U have this behavior each time u change the structure of a table ? ...

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:42











  • no, adding and deleting fields seems to work fine... I just can't edit the contents....

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:43













  • And u never succeeded in editing the content when u were doing this ???

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:49











  • I would succeed before, but unpredictably so... Now it is systematically failing even after closing and reopening the whole program.

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:53








  • 1





    So ... my question was : do your problems appear only when playing with geojson ?

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 13:13


















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I am using QGIS 3.6.4 and working with GeoJSON files. I have come across a very annoying problem. Whenever I try to add an attribute and assign values to it using the field calculator, the values will appear to update and the field looks correctly populated. However as soon as I exit out of the attribute table (while saving changes) and reopen it the entire column is converted to NULL.



I have tried playing around with the precision and width of the output field to no avail. I don't think this is related to coordinate system units since this is not a geometric operation of type $area or $length. It is more like Acol1+Bcol2.



Has anyone had such an issue before? Please help... I would have thought basic functionality like this is already well tested and bug free in QGIS....



EDIT



Other symptoms include:




  • new field disappears if I remove the layer and add it again from file location, despite having saved layer changes....

  • a separate geojson file called result.geojson.tmp is created and contains the modified attribute table. However my result.geojson is unchanged. Adding an attribute field and populating it should not create a new file but modify the current one in place... why does this happen?

  • I have also attempted this with QGIS 3.6.1 - Same problem.


The problem appears to be under discussion in the QGIS issue tracker










share|improve this question

























  • U have this behavior each time u change the structure of a table ? ...

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:42











  • no, adding and deleting fields seems to work fine... I just can't edit the contents....

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:43













  • And u never succeeded in editing the content when u were doing this ???

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:49











  • I would succeed before, but unpredictably so... Now it is systematically failing even after closing and reopening the whole program.

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:53








  • 1





    So ... my question was : do your problems appear only when playing with geojson ?

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 13:13














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I am using QGIS 3.6.4 and working with GeoJSON files. I have come across a very annoying problem. Whenever I try to add an attribute and assign values to it using the field calculator, the values will appear to update and the field looks correctly populated. However as soon as I exit out of the attribute table (while saving changes) and reopen it the entire column is converted to NULL.



I have tried playing around with the precision and width of the output field to no avail. I don't think this is related to coordinate system units since this is not a geometric operation of type $area or $length. It is more like Acol1+Bcol2.



Has anyone had such an issue before? Please help... I would have thought basic functionality like this is already well tested and bug free in QGIS....



EDIT



Other symptoms include:




  • new field disappears if I remove the layer and add it again from file location, despite having saved layer changes....

  • a separate geojson file called result.geojson.tmp is created and contains the modified attribute table. However my result.geojson is unchanged. Adding an attribute field and populating it should not create a new file but modify the current one in place... why does this happen?

  • I have also attempted this with QGIS 3.6.1 - Same problem.


The problem appears to be under discussion in the QGIS issue tracker










share|improve this question
















I am using QGIS 3.6.4 and working with GeoJSON files. I have come across a very annoying problem. Whenever I try to add an attribute and assign values to it using the field calculator, the values will appear to update and the field looks correctly populated. However as soon as I exit out of the attribute table (while saving changes) and reopen it the entire column is converted to NULL.



I have tried playing around with the precision and width of the output field to no avail. I don't think this is related to coordinate system units since this is not a geometric operation of type $area or $length. It is more like Acol1+Bcol2.



Has anyone had such an issue before? Please help... I would have thought basic functionality like this is already well tested and bug free in QGIS....



EDIT



Other symptoms include:




  • new field disappears if I remove the layer and add it again from file location, despite having saved layer changes....

  • a separate geojson file called result.geojson.tmp is created and contains the modified attribute table. However my result.geojson is unchanged. Adding an attribute field and populating it should not create a new file but modify the current one in place... why does this happen?

  • I have also attempted this with QGIS 3.6.1 - Same problem.


The problem appears to be under discussion in the QGIS issue tracker







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  • U have this behavior each time u change the structure of a table ? ...

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:42











  • no, adding and deleting fields seems to work fine... I just can't edit the contents....

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:43













  • And u never succeeded in editing the content when u were doing this ???

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:49











  • I would succeed before, but unpredictably so... Now it is systematically failing even after closing and reopening the whole program.

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:53








  • 1





    So ... my question was : do your problems appear only when playing with geojson ?

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 13:13



















  • U have this behavior each time u change the structure of a table ? ...

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:42











  • no, adding and deleting fields seems to work fine... I just can't edit the contents....

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:43













  • And u never succeeded in editing the content when u were doing this ???

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 12:49











  • I would succeed before, but unpredictably so... Now it is systematically failing even after closing and reopening the whole program.

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 12:53








  • 1





    So ... my question was : do your problems appear only when playing with geojson ?

    – snaileater
    Apr 21 at 13:13

















U have this behavior each time u change the structure of a table ? ...

– snaileater
Apr 21 at 12:42





U have this behavior each time u change the structure of a table ? ...

– snaileater
Apr 21 at 12:42













no, adding and deleting fields seems to work fine... I just can't edit the contents....

– user32882
Apr 21 at 12:43







no, adding and deleting fields seems to work fine... I just can't edit the contents....

– user32882
Apr 21 at 12:43















And u never succeeded in editing the content when u were doing this ???

– snaileater
Apr 21 at 12:49





And u never succeeded in editing the content when u were doing this ???

– snaileater
Apr 21 at 12:49













I would succeed before, but unpredictably so... Now it is systematically failing even after closing and reopening the whole program.

– user32882
Apr 21 at 12:53







I would succeed before, but unpredictably so... Now it is systematically failing even after closing and reopening the whole program.

– user32882
Apr 21 at 12:53






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So ... my question was : do your problems appear only when playing with geojson ?

– snaileater
Apr 21 at 13:13





So ... my question was : do your problems appear only when playing with geojson ?

– snaileater
Apr 21 at 13:13










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Don't waste your time like I did. This is a QGIS bug. I spent several days trying to solve this issue.



There is no solution at the moment.



I posted the same issue on QGIS bug report. I don't know what developers
did, but after version 3.2.3, GeoJSON files doesn't work on windows OS (it creates a temp file on the same location and all the edits only apply on temp file).



My suggestion is to downgrade to 3.2.3, I did this in our company and it works well.






share|improve this answer





















  • 1





    It seems to work with QGIS 3.2.3. How lame that newer versions of the software actually break vital functionality! The developers should really look into this...

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 14:13






  • 1





    the developers seem to be unable to reproduce it on their machines - if you follow the bug you can see what is happening. If you company is dependant on this functionality you can contribute sponsorship to get it fixed.

    – Ian Turton
    Apr 21 at 16:31











  • They did reproduce the issue. the reason why they were unable to reproduce it at the beginning is, they were trying on Linux while this is Windows problem, not Linux.

    – Ehsan Aliverdi
    Apr 23 at 23:08












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Don't waste your time like I did. This is a QGIS bug. I spent several days trying to solve this issue.



There is no solution at the moment.



I posted the same issue on QGIS bug report. I don't know what developers
did, but after version 3.2.3, GeoJSON files doesn't work on windows OS (it creates a temp file on the same location and all the edits only apply on temp file).



My suggestion is to downgrade to 3.2.3, I did this in our company and it works well.






share|improve this answer





















  • 1





    It seems to work with QGIS 3.2.3. How lame that newer versions of the software actually break vital functionality! The developers should really look into this...

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 14:13






  • 1





    the developers seem to be unable to reproduce it on their machines - if you follow the bug you can see what is happening. If you company is dependant on this functionality you can contribute sponsorship to get it fixed.

    – Ian Turton
    Apr 21 at 16:31











  • They did reproduce the issue. the reason why they were unable to reproduce it at the beginning is, they were trying on Linux while this is Windows problem, not Linux.

    – Ehsan Aliverdi
    Apr 23 at 23:08
















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Don't waste your time like I did. This is a QGIS bug. I spent several days trying to solve this issue.



There is no solution at the moment.



I posted the same issue on QGIS bug report. I don't know what developers
did, but after version 3.2.3, GeoJSON files doesn't work on windows OS (it creates a temp file on the same location and all the edits only apply on temp file).



My suggestion is to downgrade to 3.2.3, I did this in our company and it works well.






share|improve this answer





















  • 1





    It seems to work with QGIS 3.2.3. How lame that newer versions of the software actually break vital functionality! The developers should really look into this...

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 14:13






  • 1





    the developers seem to be unable to reproduce it on their machines - if you follow the bug you can see what is happening. If you company is dependant on this functionality you can contribute sponsorship to get it fixed.

    – Ian Turton
    Apr 21 at 16:31











  • They did reproduce the issue. the reason why they were unable to reproduce it at the beginning is, they were trying on Linux while this is Windows problem, not Linux.

    – Ehsan Aliverdi
    Apr 23 at 23:08














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Don't waste your time like I did. This is a QGIS bug. I spent several days trying to solve this issue.



There is no solution at the moment.



I posted the same issue on QGIS bug report. I don't know what developers
did, but after version 3.2.3, GeoJSON files doesn't work on windows OS (it creates a temp file on the same location and all the edits only apply on temp file).



My suggestion is to downgrade to 3.2.3, I did this in our company and it works well.






share|improve this answer















Don't waste your time like I did. This is a QGIS bug. I spent several days trying to solve this issue.



There is no solution at the moment.



I posted the same issue on QGIS bug report. I don't know what developers
did, but after version 3.2.3, GeoJSON files doesn't work on windows OS (it creates a temp file on the same location and all the edits only apply on temp file).



My suggestion is to downgrade to 3.2.3, I did this in our company and it works well.







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    It seems to work with QGIS 3.2.3. How lame that newer versions of the software actually break vital functionality! The developers should really look into this...

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 14:13






  • 1





    the developers seem to be unable to reproduce it on their machines - if you follow the bug you can see what is happening. If you company is dependant on this functionality you can contribute sponsorship to get it fixed.

    – Ian Turton
    Apr 21 at 16:31











  • They did reproduce the issue. the reason why they were unable to reproduce it at the beginning is, they were trying on Linux while this is Windows problem, not Linux.

    – Ehsan Aliverdi
    Apr 23 at 23:08














  • 1





    It seems to work with QGIS 3.2.3. How lame that newer versions of the software actually break vital functionality! The developers should really look into this...

    – user32882
    Apr 21 at 14:13






  • 1





    the developers seem to be unable to reproduce it on their machines - if you follow the bug you can see what is happening. If you company is dependant on this functionality you can contribute sponsorship to get it fixed.

    – Ian Turton
    Apr 21 at 16:31











  • They did reproduce the issue. the reason why they were unable to reproduce it at the beginning is, they were trying on Linux while this is Windows problem, not Linux.

    – Ehsan Aliverdi
    Apr 23 at 23:08








1




1





It seems to work with QGIS 3.2.3. How lame that newer versions of the software actually break vital functionality! The developers should really look into this...

– user32882
Apr 21 at 14:13





It seems to work with QGIS 3.2.3. How lame that newer versions of the software actually break vital functionality! The developers should really look into this...

– user32882
Apr 21 at 14:13




1




1





the developers seem to be unable to reproduce it on their machines - if you follow the bug you can see what is happening. If you company is dependant on this functionality you can contribute sponsorship to get it fixed.

– Ian Turton
Apr 21 at 16:31





the developers seem to be unable to reproduce it on their machines - if you follow the bug you can see what is happening. If you company is dependant on this functionality you can contribute sponsorship to get it fixed.

– Ian Turton
Apr 21 at 16:31













They did reproduce the issue. the reason why they were unable to reproduce it at the beginning is, they were trying on Linux while this is Windows problem, not Linux.

– Ehsan Aliverdi
Apr 23 at 23:08





They did reproduce the issue. the reason why they were unable to reproduce it at the beginning is, they were trying on Linux while this is Windows problem, not Linux.

– Ehsan Aliverdi
Apr 23 at 23:08


















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