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An 8-bit RGB(A) orthophoto clipped to a polygon came out with −3.4e38 as its no-data value, whatever its pixel type. clip_window (crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs) gives the cells a mask leaves out the raster's no-data, or NODATA (−3.4e38) when it has none. Bytes can't hold that, so both GeoTIFF writers fall back to 32-bit floats. The COG writer also writes no no-data tag when the raster has alpha, because the alpha band marks the empty pixels, so −3.4e38 went into the colour bands untagged, alpha included. That is the issue's Float32 file that reloads as solid white. Project and export aren't involved: a clip of the unprojected image does the same.
Clip now leaves those cells the way Project Raster already leaves cells it has no value for (Canvas in crates/analysis/src/warp.rs):
In a raster with alpha (RGBA, or grey with alpha), a cell outside the polygons is see-through: 0 in every band, alpha included. The no-data value is unchanged (none for the issue's image), so an 8-bit image stays 8-bit and both writers keep it as bytes.
An RGB image with neither alpha nor no-data gains an alpha band, named "Alpha", as Project Raster gives one: 255 where the cell is kept and has a value, 0 elsewhere.
Any other raster works as before: the cells outside get its no-data, or −3.4e38 when it has none. That covers one band without alpha, an image with a no-data value, and a colour image with a fourth band of data and no alpha (RGB and near-infrared). That last one gets no alpha band from Project Raster either, since a colour image's alpha is read from its fourth band (rgbi in Canvas::of). This is what a Float32 grid has always had, and what the existing clip tests check.
ArcGIS handles the same case by keeping the image's pixel type when it can: Clip Raster gives the cells outside NoData that fits the type, and adding NoData to a full-range 8-bit band promotes it to 16-bit rather than to floats (NoData in raster datasets). An alpha band does it here without widening the type, as RustGIS's Project Raster already does.
The command's params text, the doc comment on process and the Analysis guide say which cells are see-through (3778f69 narrowed that to three-band colour images, after the review).
Not changed, and with the same pattern of −3.4e38 on a raster without no-data: Resample (raster.process with resample), Mosaic Rasters, the Pixel Editor's erase and the orthomosaic. Each is a separate case (an averaged cell, a gap between inputs, an erased cell, a cell no photo covers), so they're left out of this fix.
Also not changed: the issue's third point, a Float32 colour file that already has −3.4e38 in its see-through cells (one exported before this fix) is read as before. Its colour bands' statistics, which the stretch is taken from, still include those cells. Leaving them out would mean skipping cells whose alpha is 0, which changes the statistics of every RGBA raster, not only clipped ones (see the thread on imagery.rs), so it's left for its own issue. After this fix, Clip no longer writes such a file.
Testing
tests::a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit: a 40 × 40 UInt8 orthophoto in UTM zone 11N, as RGBA, as RGB, and as RGB with no-data 0, is clipped to a triangle as it is and after Project Raster (bilinear, 0.5 m). Each clip is UInt8 with the no-data it had (none, or 0) and four bands (RGBA, RGB) or three (RGB with no-data). A cell outside the triangle is 0 in every band, and one inside keeps its colours (the source's, for the unprojected clip) with alpha 255. The band RGB gains is named "Alpha". Each clip exported as a COG and as a plain GeoTIFF reads back as UInt8 with the same no-data, the same bands and every value from 0 to 255.
Reproduced first: a probe on unchanged code (41315de) with the same rasters gave each clip of the RGBA images, and each clip after Project Raster, no-data −3.4e38. Their COG exports were Float32 with no no-data and minimum −3.4e38 in all four bands, and their plain GeoTIFF exports were Float32 with no-data −3.4e38. The unprojected RGB clip kept three bands with no-data −3.4e38 and exported as Float32.
On Windows 11 x64, based on 6240dc0: cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings pass. The engine's tests that clip or use the imagery tools pass (13): those matching clip, among them raster_clip_polygon_selection_semantics_and_partial_failure and the polygon clip of DEM tiles, plus layer_effects_and_imagery_tools, raster_tools_run_on_another_thread, derived_multiband_rasters_keep_every_band_in_the_project, rasters_made_from_rounded_ones_keep_the_rounded_note and the others whose bodies run raster.process with clip.
3b3df57 merges main (f22d9bb). feat(plugins): extensions that can be turned on or off, starting with Imagery #1764 moved Process to the Imagery tab on the line whose params this PR changes, so the merge keeps both. After it, cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings pass, and so do the engine's 17 tests matching clip, raster_process or extension, a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit among them.
7be0ef6 merges main again (f710eb9). feat(data): remember the file a layer was read from and say when they differ #1753 added its engine test where a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit ends, so the merge keeps both. After it, cargo fmt --all --check and cargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warnings pass, and so do the engine's 18 tests matching clip, raster_process, extension or in_step, both of those among them.
Not run: the whole of cargo xtask ci (the engine's hostile_params_never_panic among it), and Linux or macOS. The app wasn't opened, so the issue's reload as solid white wasn't looked at; the export test checks that the file is no longer Float32 with −3.4e38 in it.
Polygon clipping makes pixels outside the selected area transparent for rasters with an alpha band.
Three-band color rasters without alpha or no-data values gain an alpha band when clipped. Rasters with no-data values retain their bands and no-data handling.
Clipped color rasters retain 8-bit pixel depth, including after bilinear projection and export.
Documentation
Imagery guidance clarifies clipping behavior for four-band images, including how no-data values are handled and when an alpha band is not added.
Clip to polygons gave the cells it cuts out the raster's no-data, or
-3.4e38 when it had none, whatever its pixel type. Bytes can't hold
that, so both GeoTIFF writers fell back to 32-bit floats, and the COG
writer, which marks empty pixels with the alpha band, left -3.4e38
untagged in every band: the issue's Float32 orthophoto.
The cells outside are now left as Project Raster leaves cells it has
no value for: in a raster with alpha they are see-through, 0 in every
band, and an RGB image with neither alpha nor no-data gains an alpha
band ("Alpha", 255 or 0) for them. The no-data value is unchanged, so
an 8-bit image stays 8-bit. Any other raster works as before.
Polygon clipping now sets masked cells to transparent zeroes for rasters with alpha. Three-band RGB rasters without no-data gain an alpha band. Other rasters use their no-data value or NODATA. Regression tests cover clipping and raster exports.
clip_window clears masked cells to zero for rasters with alpha. Three-band RGB rasters without no-data gain an Alpha band. Other rasters use no-data or NODATA. The documentation describes these behaviors, including the handling of four-band images.
Clipping and export regression coverage crates/engine/src/tests.rs
Tests cover direct and projected clips of RGB, RGBA, and RGB-with-no-data rasters. They check pixel types, band counts, masked and retained pixel values, and COG and GeoTIFF exports.
Clipping 8-bit colour rasters now stays 8-bit. The transparent-zero output can still skew statistics and Change Detection, and it can interfere with mosaicking clipped rasters. Resolve these or accept them explicitly before merge.
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Issue [#1731] is addressed for the reported 8-bit clipping path. clip_window clears masked alpha rasters, adds an Alpha band to eligible three-band RGB rasters, preserves the input type, and the regression test checks projected and unprojected clips plus COG and GeoTIFF exports. The PR does not implement or test the issue's additional requirement that Float32 RGB display-range calculations ignore pixels where alpha is 0. The reviewed diff contains no renderer or stretch change.
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A rabbit checks the clipped scene, Where alpha keeps the edges clean. RGB gains a fourth-band glow, No-data marks the cells below. Byte pixels hop back home. <fixed_issue_severity>Medium</fixed_issue_severity>
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Scope gap (medium confidence): the fix covers RGB(A), grey-with-alpha and 3-band RGB. An 8-bit four-band colour image with no alpha band (ColorHint::Rgb { alpha: false } with 4 bands, e.g. RGB + NIR) still falls through to the old path: outside cells get −3.4e38, so the output widens to Float32 as in the issue. Project Raster treats this case the same way (its rgbi branch uses NaN outside), so the two commands agree, but the PR text ("a colour raster stays 8-bit") doesn't mention it. Either say so in the PR description and the Analysis guide, or open a follow-up issue for it.
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Right, an RGB + near-infrared image without alpha keeps the old path, as in Project Raster, whose rgbi branch doesn't add alpha because a colour image's alpha is read from its fourth band. Said in 3778f69: the Analysis guide, the command's params text and process's doc comment now say "a three-band colour" image gains alpha, and the guide says what an RGBI image gets. The PR description says it too.
I found no crash paths, panics or silent data loss in the changed lines. I checked the new clip_window branches against the unchanged clip path, Canvas in warp.rs, per_index, and the is_valid semantics. The one substantive point is a scope gap, posted inline. Everything else is minor.
Bugs
None confirmed. Extent clips (no mask) and mask clips without alpha or no-data are unchanged. The new indexing uses get() and clamped chunk sizes, so hostile parameters can't panic.
Security
None found.
Performance
None found. The alpha band is computed only for kept cells, and it runs in per_index with cancel and thread handling.
Quality
Scope gap (medium confidence): an 8-bit four-band RGB image with no alpha (RGBI) still widens to Float32 with −3.4e38 on clip. Project Raster does the same, so the two agree. The PR text doesn't say so. Posted inline on imagery.rs:1568.
Edge case (low confidence): in a Float RGB image with no no-data, a kept cell whose values are all NaN keeps NaN in its colour bands and gets alpha 0. Project Raster writes 0 there. Not reachable with 8-bit input.
Test hygiene (nit): the test's temp directory is removed only on success, so a failing assertion leaks it. Group this with the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
The PR follows the rules: no new unwrap or panic in non-test code, no unsafe, cancel-aware helpers, and a regression test for the fix.
The alpha-band addition is not reported through notify. Project Raster doesn't report its alpha band either, so this matches existing practice and I'm not raising it as a violation.
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No existing review threads, so nothing was left alone.
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Compared with the base branch (merge base 6240dc0 to PR head 7f2c4c8).
The see-through cells are for a raster with alpha or a three-band colour
one without no-data. A colour image with a fourth band of data and no
alpha (RGB and near-infrared) keeps the old path, as Project Raster
does, which the guide, the command's params and the doc comment now say.
Thanks for the review. Two points from the summary:
A float RGB image without no-data, a kept cell that is NaN in every band: it keeps NaN in its colour bands, with alpha 0, where Project Raster writes 0. It's see-through either way, and an 8-bit image can't hold NaN, so the case can't come from the issue's input. It's left for the release quality pass.
The test's temp folder on a failed assertion: left for the release quality pass too.
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Clean up the temp directory when an assertion fails.
An assertion failure earlier in the test skips std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir). The directory then stays in std::env::temp_dir(). The path uses only std::process::id(), so a reused PID can see stale files. The .unwrap() on remove_dir_all can also fail the test on a cleanup error that has nothing to do with the behavior under test.
Use a drop guard or the tempfile crate if the workspace already has it. Otherwise, ignore the cleanup result.
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- std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir).unwrap();+ let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(dir);
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- Around line 1570-1571: Update the imagery handling around `nodata` and `fill`
so clipped-out cells remain excluded from statistics and Change Detection
through the clip mask, rather than being identified by pixel value. Preserve
opaque black pixels as valid data, and ensure the mask reaches both consumers
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Exclude clipped-out cells from statistics and calculations.
For RGB rasters without no-data, the transparent zeroes count as valid colour values. They can lower band minima and increase valid-pixel counts. Change Detection can also calculate differences outside the polygon.
Preserve the clip mask for these consumers without treating opaque black pixels as no-data.
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Update the imagery handling around `nodata` and `fill` so clipped-out cells remain excluded from statistics and Change Detection through the clip mask, rather than being identified by pixel value. Preserve opaque black pixels as valid data, and ensure the mask reaches both consumers without changing their treatment of valid pixels.
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I haven't changed this here. The see-through cells are counted the way the app counts them in any RGBA raster. Band statistics (BandStats, through Raster::is_valid) and Change Detection (change_work) don't read the alpha band. So a transparent cell of an RGBA image read from a file already counts as a 0 in both, and so does one made by Project Raster. The issue's orthophoto has such cells around its footprint. Clip now leaves the same cells Project Raster leaves, so a clip and a projection of one image agree.
Marking those cells by value would undo the fix. An 8-bit band has no free value for them: −3.4e38 is what widened the image to Float32, and 0 would turn opaque black pixels into no-data. Skipping cells whose alpha is 0 in statistics and Change Detection would change them for every RGBA raster, not only clipped ones. That's a separate change from #1731.
@bearinmindcat Thanks for the explanation. The clip output follows Project Raster’s transparent-zero convention, and the existing statistics and Change Detection paths do not use alpha. Transparent zeros can therefore affect their results.
I understand that alpha-aware analysis is outside this PR’s scope. Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for it?
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@coderabbitai Yes, please open one. It was there before this PR and isn't specific to clipping: band statistics (Raster::is_valid) and Change Detection (change_work) count a cell whose alpha is 0 as a colour value in any RGBA raster, whether it was read from a file, made by Project Raster or made by Clip. It also covers #1731's third point, which the description now says this PR leaves out: a Float32 colour file that already has −3.4e38 in its see-through cells still has those cells in its stretch. Please link it to this thread and to #1731.
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body=$(cat <<'EOF'## SummaryMake raster color statistics, display stretch, and Change Detection account for cells whose alpha is 0. This behavior predates PR #1759 and is not specific to clipping. It affects RGBA rasters read from files as well as rasters produced by Project Raster or Clip.Band statistics and Change Detection currently evaluate color values without using alpha. Transparent values can therefore affect statistics and change results. A Float32 color file can also contain values such as −3.4e38 in transparent cells; those values can affect its display stretch. This covers the Float32 stretch point in #1731, which PR #1759 leaves out.## Affected areas- Raster validity and band statistics in `crates/data/src/raster/mod.rs`.- Change Detection in `crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs`, including the resampling path for its second input.- The color display-range and stretch calculation paths.## Acceptance criteria- Exclude cells with alpha 0 from color-band statistics and display-range calculations.- Exclude transparent cells from Change Detection for either input, including when the second input is resampled.- Preserve valid opaque black pixels; do not mark color value 0 as no-data solely to identify transparency.- Add regression tests for file-loaded, projected, and clipped RGBA rasters. Include opaque black cells and transparent cells with extreme Float32 color values such as −3.4e38.- Verify that existing no-data handling and valid pixel calculations remain correct.## Context- Related issue: #1731- Pull request: https://github.com/opengeos/RustGIS/pull/1759- Review thread: https://github.com/opengeos/RustGIS/pull/1759#discussion_r4533311705- Requested by: @bearinmindcatEOF)
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@bearinmindcat Created follow-up issue #1810. It links to this thread and #1731.
GitHub rejected the assignment, so the issue is unassigned. I’m not marking the finding as addressed because the fix is deferred.
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Low-medium confidence (~50%), correctness: in a see-through clip (clear), a kept cell whose colour value is NaN is copied as NaN, not 0. Project Raster's Canvas::set writes 0 for NaN when clear is set. In a float RGB(A) source with NaN in one band and valid values in the others, this output keeps NaN in that band and gets alpha 255. The NaN copy predates this PR, but the alpha beside it is new. Suggested change, limited to the see-through case so the other paths keep their current values:
Suggested change
|_, i| ifkept(i){ b.data.get(at(i)).copied().unwrap_or(fill)}else{ fill },
|_, i| ifkept(i){ b.data.get(at(i)).copied().map_or(fill, |v| if clear && v.is_nan(){0.0}else{ v })}else{ fill },
A test with a Float32 RGB source holding one NaN band would pin this down.
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I left this as it is on purpose. A clip keeps the cells inside the polygons as the source has them. An extent clip (no mask) and a polygon clip of a raster with no-data also copy a NaN cell as NaN, so a polygon clip and an extent clip of the same image hold the same cells inside. Writing 0 only under clear would make them differ.
The alpha next to such a cell matches Project Raster's. valued makes it opaque when some band has a value and see-through when no band does, as Canvas::set does. So the clipped cell looks the way it did in the source: an RGB image without alpha shows every cell opaque. Whether a clip should also write 0 for a NaN band, as a resample does, is for the release quality pass.
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Re-raising the RGB + near-infrared thread because its reply doesn't match the PR description. The reply says the description covers a four-band colour image without alpha. The staged PR body has no mention of near-infrared, four bands or RGBI. Its title ("a clipped 8-bit colour raster stays 8-bit") and "An 8-bit RGB(A)" opening overstate the fix: for an 8-bit RGB+NIR image, the output still goes to Float32 with −3.4e38, which is the issue's symptom. The Analysis guide does say this. Please add the same sentence to the PR description, or narrow the title.
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The description says it now, in the third bullet of the Summary. A colour image with a fourth band of data and no alpha (RGB and near-infrared) keeps the old path: no-data −3.4e38 and Float32. Project Raster's rgbi branch does the same. That edit went in at 02:52, after this comment. I've also narrowed the title to "a clipped 8-bit RGB(A) raster stays 8-bit".
I read the diff against the base branch, the clip code and Project Raster's Canvas in warp.rs, and the helpers the new code calls. I did not compile or run the tests here. The clip rules agree with Project Raster in every case the diff handles, including the RGBI exclusion from the earlier thread. The alpha pass is cancellable through per_index, the new non-test code has no unwrap/expect/unsafe, and the test's coordinates and expected cells check out by hand.
Bugs
NaN in see-through colour bands (imagery.rs:1585, low-medium confidence, about 50%): a kept cell with NaN in a colour band is copied as NaN. Project Raster writes 0 there when clear is set. The NaN copy predates this PR, but the new alpha of 255 next to it is new. Suggestion is inline.
Security
None found.
Performance
None found. The alpha pass is one extra per_index pass and is cancellable. The valued closure scans bands per cell, but it exits early in the common case.
Quality (left for the release quality pass; not blocking)
per_index(wu * h as usize, wu, n, …) at imagery.rs:1592 passes the band count as the per-cell cost argument. The value is right, but the argument reads like a band count. A short comment would help.
The test's remove_dir_all runs only on success, so a failed assertion leaves the temp directory behind.
The test covers RGBA without no-data, RGB with and without no-data, and cog and plain exports. It does not cover GrayAlpha, or RGBA with a no-data value, which exercises the clear path with nodata set.
AGENTS.md
No violations in the changed code. Clip is already a background command. Docs and the params text match the code.
Re-raised one earlier thread (3 comments in total): the RGB + near-infrared case. The author's reply says the PR description covers it, but the staged PR body doesn't mention it, and the title still reads "a clipped 8-bit colour raster stays 8-bit". Inline comment on imagery.rs:1568. The Analysis guide does document the case.
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fix(engine): a clipped 8-bit colour raster stays 8-bit (#1731)
fix(engine): a clipped 8-bit RGB(A) raster stays 8-bit (#1731)
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Major · Keep clipped RGB rasters compatible with mosaic inputs. · imagery.rs:1568
crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1568 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Keep clipped RGB rasters compatible with mosaic inputs.
A polygon clip now adds a fourth band to an RGB raster without no-data. mosaic_matches at Lines 1538–1546 rejects that result alongside the original three-band raster, although those inputs could be mosaicked before this change. Support compatible RGB and RGBA inputs in the mosaic path, or provide a conversion that preserves their band roles.
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs at line 1568:
Update mosaic_matches to accept compatible RGB and RGBA rasters, including RGB rasters whose polygon clip adds an alpha band; preserve the color and alpha band roles through mosaicking, using a conversion only if it maintains those roles.
Major · Preserve mosaic gaps for transparent clipped cells. · imagery.rs:1571
crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1571 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Preserve mosaic gaps for transparent clipped cells.
For an RGBA input without no-data, clipped-out cells now contain zero in every band. In raster_mosaic at Lines 1425–1445, zero is valid and fills the destination before later inputs are read. A later raster therefore cannot fill those transparent cells, leaving holes in the mosaic. Make mosaic composition honor alpha when selecting source pixels.
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs at line 1571:
Update raster_mosaic source-pixel selection to use the alpha band for RGBA inputs, skipping fully transparent pixels so later rasters can fill those mosaic gaps. Preserve the existing selection behavior for opaque pixels and inputs without alpha.
Major · Use the pixel type’s opaque alpha value. · imagery.rs:1592
crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:1592 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Use the pixel type’s opaque alpha value.
For a UInt16 RGB raster, kept cells receive alpha 255 instead of 65535. The renderer and UInt16 COG export treat those cells as nearly transparent.
Use the opaque value for the raster’s pixel type, and preserve alpha scaling when an export changes the sample type.
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs at line 1592:
Update the alpha-band generation in the `rasterops::per_index` closure to use the opaque value for the raster’s pixel type instead of hard-coding 255. Preserve alpha opacity when export changes the sample type by scaling the alpha value to the export type’s range.
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- Around line 40918-40919: Update the export assertions in the test around the
back data type and band checks to verify back.color and compare an outside pixel
and a retained inside pixel against the clipped raster. Preserve the existing
type, nodata, band-count, and byte-range assertions while ensuring the test
detects lost transparency or changed retained colours.
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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs:
- Line 1568: Update mosaic_matches to accept compatible RGB and RGBA rasters,
including RGB rasters whose polygon clip adds an alpha band; preserve the color
and alpha band roles through mosaicking, using a conversion only if it maintains
those roles.
- Line 1571: Update raster_mosaic source-pixel selection to use the alpha band
for RGBA inputs, skipping fully transparent pixels so later rasters can fill
those mosaic gaps. Preserve the existing selection behavior for opaque pixels
and inputs without alpha.
- Line 1592: Update the alpha-band generation in the `rasterops::per_index`
closure to use the opaque value for the raster’s pixel type instead of
hard-coding 255. Preserve alpha opacity when export changes the sample type by
scaling the alpha value to the export type’s range.
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Implement alpha-aware Float32 stretch handling that excludes pixels with alpha 0
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Check transparency and retained colours after export.
These assertions also accept an all-white, fully opaque export with the expected type and band count. Check back.color, the outside pixel, and the retained inside pixel against the clipped raster. This will cover the exported transparency and colour behaviour, not only byte preservation.
The PR objective includes transparent clipped cells and correct exported imagery.
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Update the export assertions in the test around the back data type and band checks to verify back.color and compare an outside pixel and a retained inside pixel against the clipped raster. Preserve the existing type, nodata, band-count, and byte-range assertions while ensuring the test detects lost transparency or changed retained colours.
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The export keeps what the clip gives it. geotiff::write writes an RGBA raster's fourth band as unassociated alpha (ExtraSamples 2), and the GeoTIFF module's own round-trip test checks that an RGBA raster reads back as Rgb { alpha: true } for each data type. This test checks the clipped raster's colour, its see-through outside cell and its kept inside pixel before the export. Checking them again after the export would be an extra test of code that works, so it's left for the release quality pass.
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@bearinmindcat Thanks for explaining the existing GeoTIFF round-trip coverage. I understand that you want to defer the additional export checks to the release quality pass.
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@bearinmindcat You're right. I should have followed the existing release quality pass guidance instead of asking about an issue. I won't create one, and I’m not marking the test finding as addressed.
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- Around line 40869-40870: Replace the process-ID-based directory setup with a
uniquely created temporary directory and an RAII cleanup guard that removes it
during normal completion and unwinding; keep the test’s exported files inside
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Use automatic cleanup for the temporary directory.
If an assertion or unwrap() panics, Line 40935 does not run. The test leaves its directory and exported files behind. Use a uniquely created temporary directory with a cleanup guard that also runs during unwinding.
Based on learnings, filesystem tests require isolated temporary state with cleanup.
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The folder is made and removed the way the other tests in tests.rs do it: std::env::temp_dir() with the process id, removed at the end. #1753's test just below does the same. A guard that also removes it on a panic would change how these tests are written, so it's left for the release quality pass.
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@bearinmindcat Understood. The repository guidance recognizes the process-ID temporary path convention in crates/engine/src/tests.rs. I should have considered that convention in my review.
Cleanup after a panic can remain part of the release quality pass.
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Summary
An 8-bit RGB(A) orthophoto clipped to a polygon came out with −3.4e38 as its no-data value, whatever its pixel type.
clip_window(crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs) gives the cells a mask leaves out the raster's no-data, orNODATA(−3.4e38) when it has none. Bytes can't hold that, so both GeoTIFF writers fall back to 32-bit floats. The COG writer also writes no no-data tag when the raster has alpha, because the alpha band marks the empty pixels, so −3.4e38 went into the colour bands untagged, alpha included. That is the issue's Float32 file that reloads as solid white. Project and export aren't involved: a clip of the unprojected image does the same.Clip now leaves those cells the way Project Raster already leaves cells it has no value for (
Canvasincrates/analysis/src/warp.rs):rgbiinCanvas::of). This is what a Float32 grid has always had, and what the existing clip tests check.ArcGIS handles the same case by keeping the image's pixel type when it can: Clip Raster gives the cells outside NoData that fits the type, and adding NoData to a full-range 8-bit band promotes it to 16-bit rather than to floats (NoData in raster datasets). An alpha band does it here without widening the type, as RustGIS's Project Raster already does.
The command's
paramstext, the doc comment onprocessand the Analysis guide say which cells are see-through (3778f69 narrowed that to three-band colour images, after the review).Not changed, and with the same pattern of −3.4e38 on a raster without no-data: Resample (
raster.processwithresample), Mosaic Rasters, the Pixel Editor's erase and the orthomosaic. Each is a separate case (an averaged cell, a gap between inputs, an erased cell, a cell no photo covers), so they're left out of this fix.Also not changed: the issue's third point, a Float32 colour file that already has −3.4e38 in its see-through cells (one exported before this fix) is read as before. Its colour bands' statistics, which the stretch is taken from, still include those cells. Leaving them out would mean skipping cells whose alpha is 0, which changes the statistics of every RGBA raster, not only clipped ones (see the thread on
imagery.rs), so it's left for its own issue. After this fix, Clip no longer writes such a file.Testing
tests::a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bit: a 40 × 40 UInt8 orthophoto in UTM zone 11N, as RGBA, as RGB, and as RGB with no-data 0, is clipped to a triangle as it is and after Project Raster (bilinear, 0.5 m). Each clip is UInt8 with the no-data it had (none, or 0) and four bands (RGBA, RGB) or three (RGB with no-data). A cell outside the triangle is 0 in every band, and one inside keeps its colours (the source's, for the unprojected clip) with alpha 255. The band RGB gains is named "Alpha". Each clip exported as a COG and as a plain GeoTIFF reads back as UInt8 with the same no-data, the same bands and every value from 0 to 255.cargo fmt --all --checkandcargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warningspass. The engine's tests that clip or use the imagery tools pass (13): those matchingclip, among themraster_clip_polygon_selection_semantics_and_partial_failureand the polygon clip of DEM tiles, pluslayer_effects_and_imagery_tools,raster_tools_run_on_another_thread,derived_multiband_rasters_keep_every_band_in_the_project,rasters_made_from_rounded_ones_keep_the_rounded_noteand the others whose bodies runraster.processwithclip.main(f22d9bb). feat(plugins): extensions that can be turned on or off, starting with Imagery #1764 moved Process to the Imagery tab on the line whoseparamsthis PR changes, so the merge keeps both. After it,cargo fmt --all --checkandcargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warningspass, and so do the engine's 17 tests matchingclip,raster_processorextension,a_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bitamong them.mainagain (f710eb9). feat(data): remember the file a layer was read from and say when they differ #1753 added its engine test wherea_clipped_colour_raster_stays_8_bitends, so the merge keeps both. After it,cargo fmt --all --checkandcargo clippy -p rustgis-engine --all-targets -- -D warningspass, and so do the engine's 18 tests matchingclip,raster_process,extensionorin_step, both of those among them.cargo xtask ci(the engine'shostile_params_never_panicamong it), and Linux or macOS. The app wasn't opened, so the issue's reload as solid white wasn't looked at; the export test checks that the file is no longer Float32 with −3.4e38 in it.UI evidence
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