480 coredata modelsblockspy blockstransform crs test transformations copying and inplace ops

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Changes - from version >= 1.x
 * [enhancement] from now on it is not possible to select neighbors using `triangle` method (in directional variogram cases)
 * [docs] updated missing DOI in Indicator Variogram
 * [enhancement] representative point in `Blocks` is sampled from the largest `Polygon` when `MultiPolygon` is passed
+* [enhancement] `Blocks` object might be altered during CRS transformation or new object might be created (`inplace` parameter and copying mechanism)
 
 2025-07-17
 ----------

src/pyinterpolate/core/data_models/blocks.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - Package doesn't read data files, data must be loaded into DataFrame and
   then passed into the Blocks object.
 """
+import copy
 from typing import Union, Hashable, Dict
 from numpy.typing import ArrayLike
 
@@ -477,8 +478,7 @@ def select_distances_between_blocks(self,
             except AttributeError:
                 return df.loc[block_id, other_blocks]
 
-    # TODO manage copying and inplace transformations
-    def transform_crs(self, target_crs):
+    def transform_crs(self, target_crs, inplace=True):
         """Function transforms Blocks CRS
 
         Parameters
@@ -488,23 +488,46 @@ def transform_crs(self, target_crs):
             :meth:`pyproj.CRS.from_user_input()
             <pyproj.crs.CRS.from_user_input>`,
             such as an authority string (eg "EPSG:4326") or a WKT string.
+
+        inplace : bool, default = True
+            When set to `True` then transform object's instance on the fly,
+            otherwise return modified object and do leave the old instance
+            unchanged.
         """
         # Transform core dataset
-        self.ds.to_crs(target_crs, inplace=True)
+        if inplace:
+            self.ds.to_crs(target_crs, inplace=True)
 
-        # representative points
-        self._get_representative_points()
-        self._points_to_floats()
+            # representative points
+            self._get_representative_points()
+            self._points_to_floats()
 
-        # distances
-        self.distances = self.calculate_distances_between_rep_points(
-            update=False
-        )
+            # distances
+            self.distances = self.calculate_distances_between_rep_points(
+                update=False
+            )
 
-        # angles
-        self.angles = self.calculate_angles_between_rep_points(
-            update=False
-        )
+            # angles
+            self.angles = self.calculate_angles_between_rep_points(
+                update=False
+            )
+            return None
+        else:
+            new_object = copy.deepcopy(self)
+
+            new_object.ds.to_crs(target_crs, inplace=True)
+            new_object._get_representative_points()
+            new_object._points_to_floats()
+
+            new_object.distances = new_object.calculate_distances_between_rep_points(
+                update=False
+            )
+
+            new_object.angles = new_object.calculate_angles_between_rep_points(
+                update=False
+            )
+
+            return new_object
 
     def _delete(self, block_index: Union[str, Hashable]):
         """

tests/test_core/test_blocks_model.py

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ def test_select_distances_between_blocks_method():
     assert isinstance(dist, np.ndarray)
 
 
-def test_transform_crs():
+def test_transform_inplace_crs():
     block = Blocks(
         **CANCER_DATA,
         angles_between_representative_points=True
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def test_transform_crs():
 
     ks = list(sample_base_angles.keys())[0]
 
-    block.transform_crs('EPSG:2180')
+    block.transform_crs('EPSG:2180', inplace=True)
 
     sample_transformed = block.ds.iloc[0]
     sample_transformed_dists = block.distances.copy(deep=True).iloc[0, 1]
@@ -156,6 +156,43 @@ def test_transform_crs():
     assert sb_angles[1] != st_angles[1]
 
 
+def test_transform_crs():
+    block = Blocks(
+        **CANCER_DATA,
+        angles_between_representative_points=True
+    )
+
+    sample_base_pre = block.ds.iloc[0]
+    sample_base_dists_pre = block.distances.copy(deep=True).iloc[0, 1]
+    sample_base_angles_pre = deepcopy(block.angles)
+
+    ks_pre = list(sample_base_angles_pre.keys())[0]
+    sb_angles_pre = sample_base_angles_pre[ks_pre]
+
+    new_block = block.transform_crs('EPSG:2180',
+                                    inplace=False)
+
+    sample_base_post = block.ds.iloc[0]
+    sample_base_dists_post = block.distances.copy(deep=True).iloc[0, 1]
+    sample_base_angles_post = deepcopy(block.angles)
+
+    sb_angles_post = sample_base_angles_post[ks_pre]
+
+    assert sample_base_pre[block._lon_col_name] == sample_base_post[block._lon_col_name]
+    assert sample_base_dists_post == sample_base_dists_pre
+    assert sb_angles_pre[1] == sb_angles_post[1]
+
+    sample_transformed = new_block.ds.iloc[0]
+    sample_transformed_dists = new_block.distances.copy(deep=True).iloc[0, 1]
+    sample_transformed_angles = deepcopy(new_block.angles)
+
+    st_angles = sample_transformed_angles[ks_pre]
+
+    assert sample_base_pre[block._lon_col_name] != sample_transformed[block._lon_col_name]
+    assert sample_transformed_dists != sample_base_dists_pre
+    assert sb_angles_pre[1] != st_angles[1]
+
+
 def test_block_index_outputs():
     block = Blocks(**CANCER_DATA)
 

tutorials/data/regularized_variogram.json

@@ -1 +1 @@
-{"experimental_variogram": null, "nugget": 0.0, "sill": 176.68706240332543, "rang": 87733.33333333334, "variogram_model_type": "spherical", "direction": null, "spatial_dependence": null, "spatial_index": null, "yhat": null, "errors": null}
+{"experimental_variogram": null, "nugget": 0.0, "sill": 176.942139054805, "rang": 57866.66666666667, "variogram_model_type": "linear", "direction": null, "spatial_dependence": null, "spatial_index": null, "yhat": null, "errors": null}