File path encoding in "delimitedtext"-Provider

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Author Name: l h_ (l h_)
Original Redmine Issue: 11274
Affected QGIS version: 2.4.0
Redmine category:data_provider/delimited_text_

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Hello,

I have a problem with the path encoding of the "delimitedtext"-Provider - as soon as the file path has a special character the following error-message occurs:

"File cannot be opened or delimiter parameters are not valid"

Here is the code:

@uri = u"file:/" + unicode(fileName) + u"?delimiter={0}&xField={1}&yField={2}&crs=epsg:4326&spatialIndex=yes".format(",", "longitude", "latitude")

self.__csvLayer = QgsVectorLayer(uri, "my_csv_layer", "delimitedtext")@

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Please be more specific, which "special" characters? Does it also failed when you load this file via QGIS GUI?

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• category_id was configured as Data Provider/Delimited Text
• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: l h_ (l h_)

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Special character could be an ä - any non english letter...

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Author Name: l h_ (l h_)

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It doesn't fail in the GUI... I think the URI-Constructor of the QgsVectorlayer isn't used there. Our plugin is also written in Python, maybe the problem is there?

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open

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Author Name: Minoru Akagi (@minorua)

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You need to convert unicode characters to ascii (URL encoding).

from PyQt4.QtCore import QUrl

filename = u"D:\\\\テスト.csv"
url = QUrl.fromLocalFile(filename)
url.setQueryItems([["delimter", ","], ["key2", "value2"]])

url.toEncoded()    # -> PyQt4.QtCore.QByteArray('file:///E:/%E3%83%86%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88.csv?delimter=,&key2=value2')

layer = QgsVectorLayer(unicode(url.toEncoded()), "layername", "delimitedtext")

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Author Name: Minoru Akagi (@minorua)

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last comment has been modified.

wrong: @url.toString()@
right: @unicode(url.toEncoded())@

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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This is not a QGIS bug, plugin should take care about handling non-ASCII characters. Please reopen if necessary

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed
• resolution was changed from to fixed/implemented

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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• resolution was changed from fixed/implemented to wontfix