Create Buffer but keep original Attribute table

Question

I want to create a buffer around a number of features. It is important for me to keep the attributes of the features in the new buffer.shp layer. When I try to write a new VectorLayer with a QgsVectorFileWriter, I do get the buffered polygons and also the fields of the original layer get copied over, however the attribute table stays empty.

How can I copy over the attributes of the original layer to the buffer layer?

As you can see I already tried to load the attributes using the . attributes() method on the QgsFeature object and setting the attributes. However I feel I am missing something here.

for f in feats:
    attributes = f.attributes()
    f.setAttributes(attributes)

See full code below:

path = '/Volumes/VAW_ETH-Z/M.Thesis/data/geospatial/'
load filtered sgi
sgi_filtered = QgsVectorLayer(path + 'sgi_filtered.shp')
Create buffer around filtered sgi
outFn = path + 'gl_buffer3.shp'
bufferDist = 50 # in map units
fields = sgi_filtered.fields()
feats = sgi_filtered.getFeatures()
writer = QgsVectorFileWriter(
            outFn,
            'utf-8',
            fields,
            QgsWkbTypes.Polygon,
            sgi_filtered.sourceCrs(), # loads the reference system of the source feature
            'ESRI Shapefile')
for f in feats:
    attributes = f.attributes()
    f.setAttributes(attributes)
    geom = f.geometry()
    buff = geom.buffer(bufferDist, 5)
    f.setGeometry(buff)
writer.addFeature(f)

Screenshot of the Attribute Table below (it shows the fields but no attributes):

Check this one: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/429034/creating-new-layer-with-all-attributes-inherited-from-original-layer-using-pyqgi — Taras, Dec 05 '22 at 14:41

Kadir Şahbaz · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-05T16:35:03.320

5

Just add del writer after for loop.

for f in feats:
    attributes = f.attributes()
    f.setAttributes(attributes)
    geom = f.geometry()
    buff = geom.buffer(bufferDist, 5)
    f.setGeometry(buff)
writer.addFeature(f)


del writer

edited Dec 05 '22 at 16:35

answered Dec 05 '22 at 16:17

Kadir Şahbaz

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Oh thanks a lot! Can you tell me the reason why It is important to delete the writer? – J.Beer Dec 09 '22 at 14:56
You need to delete the writer to flush features to disk. – Kadir Şahbaz Dec 09 '22 at 21:43

Create Buffer but keep original Attribute table

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