fix(data): a point layer mixing points and multipoints exports to FlatGeobuf by Mavrick-F · Pull Request #1778 · opengeos/RustGIS

Mavrick-F · 2026-11-11T07:36:49Z

Summary

A point layer holding both points and multipoints couldn't be exported to FlatGeobuf. The export failed with FlatGeobuf: processing geometry Cannot mix geometry types - expected type Point, actual type MultiPoint. A GeoJSON file with a Point feature and a MultiPoint feature is enough to make such a layer.

The writer already declares a point layer's type as Unknown, so that either kind can go in. But the flatgeobuf crate's detect_type option, which is on by default, replaces Unknown with the first feature's type. The crate promotes lines and polygons to their multi types, but not points.

A point layer's file still takes the type of its first point. If a later point is of the other kind (a multipoint after points, or the reverse), the export starts again, feeding the features again. On that second run detect_type is off, so the header stays Unknown and each feature records its own type, as the FlatGeobuf specification allows. This is the same restart the GeoPackage writer uses when a later feature contradicts its choice of table type.
It works the same for a whole layer and for one read in place and exported a chunk at a time, in bounded memory. The writer keeps features in its temporary file and writes nothing to the output before the last one, so the first run leaves the output empty.
On the second run, a geometry in a point layer that isn't a point or multipoint (a line, a polygon) is refused. Otherwise it would go into a file of mixed types, which would be read back as a layer of its first feature's kind.
Every other export is unchanged. A layer of points alone, or of multipoints alone, still has its single geometry type in the header, which is what readers expect of a layer, and is written in one run.

Testing

cargo xtask ci.
New a_point_layer_mixing_points_and_multipoints_is_written writes a point and a two-point multipoint, reads the file back, and gets both with their attributes. A layer of points alone still gets a Point header.
New a_streamed_point_layer_mixing_points_and_multipoints_starts_again feeds the point and the multipoint in separate chunks. It checks that the export runs twice and reads back both geometries, and that a point layer that also holds a line is refused, naming the feature.

Found by an export round-trip property test: generated layers were exported to each format, read back, and compared.

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Bug Fixes
- Mixed point datasets containing both Point and MultiPoint geometries can now be written and read back with their geometry information preserved.
- Point-only datasets continue to retain the Point geometry type, maintaining compatibility with existing output.
- Point layers containing other geometry types now return a format error that identifies the affected feature.

…tGeobuf The writer declares a point layer's type Unknown, but the flatgeobuf crate's detect_type takes the first feature's type for the header and then refuses the other kind. write_in now turns detect_type off for a layer that holds both, so each feature records its own type; every other layer keeps its one geometry type in the header. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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FlatGeobuf writing now retries a point-layer export when it encounters both Point and MultiPoint geometries. The retry preserves each feature’s geometry type. A non-point geometry in the retry produces a format error that names the feature ID.

Changes: FlatGeobuf mixed point writing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Mixed point detection and writing `crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs`	`write_features` first exports with geometry-type detection enabled. If it encounters both Point and MultiPoint, it retries without detection. The retry rejects other geometry types with a format error naming the feature ID. Tests cover mixed geometry round-tripping, streamed retries, points-only header typing, and line rejection.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

opengeos/RustGIS#1146: Both PRs change the FlatGeobuf write_features export path, including streamed export behavior.
opengeos/RustGIS#1433: The retry calls the feature feed again, so it interacts with the progress and cancellation behavior added by this PR.

Suggested reviewers: giswqs

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 36995

Point layers that mix points and multipoints are now written to FlatGeobuf, and a line or polygon in a point layer is refused with a clear error. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after the review.

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github-actions · 2026-11-11T07:39:08Z

-    write_features(&ds.name, ds.geometry_type, &ds.fields, crs, &mut out, &mut |add| add(&ds.features))?;
+    let has =
+        |multi: bool| ds.features.iter().filter_map(|f| f.geometry.as_ref()).any(|g| matches!(g, crate::Geometry::MultiPoint(_)) == multi);
+    write_features_typed(&ds.name, ds.geometry_type, &ds.fields, crs, has(true) && has(false), &mut out, &mut |add| add(&ds.features))?;


Bug (medium confidence): the mixed-layer test is broader than the PR says. has(false) is true for any non-MultiPoint geometry, not just Point. Readers set a layer's type with dominant_type, so a GeoJSON with three points and one polygon gives a Point layer holding a polygon. With this change detect_type goes off for that layer, and it now exports with an Unknown header where it used to fail with "Cannot mix". The PR says "Every other export is unchanged", and the doc comment says "points and multipoints", so either the code or the description is wrong. The predicate also scans the whole layer even when it isn't a point layer, and does two passes.

If the intent is points and multipoints only, a single pass that also checks the layer type first would be:

Suggested change

write_features_typed(&ds.name, ds.geometry_type, &ds.fields, crs, has(true) && has(false), &mut out, &mut |add| add(&ds.features))?;

let mut mixed = false;

if ds.geometry_type == GeometryType::Point {

let (mut point, mut multi) = (false, false);

for g in ds.features.iter().filter_map(|f| f.geometry.as_ref()) {

match g {

crate::Geometry::Point(_) => point = true,

crate::Geometry::MultiPoint(_) => multi = true,

_ => {}

}

}

mixed = point && multi;

}

write_features_typed(&ds.name, ds.geometry_type, &ds.fields, crs, mixed, &mut out, &mut |add| add(&ds.features))?;

If allowing a point layer to hold other kinds is intended, keep the code and fix the description and doc comment. Either way, a test for a point layer holding a polygon would pin the behaviour.

Fixed in 3699534. The pre-scan is gone. The writer settles a point layer's type from its first point and starts again with per-feature types only when a point of the other kind follows. On that run, a line or polygon in a point layer is refused (feature N of a point layer isn't a point or multipoint), so a point layer holding a polygon isn't written into a mixed file. The description now says this. cargo xtask ci passed; a_streamed_point_layer_mixing_points_and_multipoints_starts_again covers the refusal.

github-actions · 2026-11-11T07:39:10Z

    out: &mut dyn std::io::Write,
    feed: &mut dyn FnMut(&mut dyn FnMut(&[Feature]) -> Result<()>) -> Result<()>,
+) -> Result<usize> {
+    write_features_typed(name, geometry_type, fields, crs, false, out, feed)


Bug (high confidence, scoped by the PR but still open): the streamed export path keeps the old failure. write_features always passes mixed_points = false. The desktop export (crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs:620-634, through export.rs:159) uses this path for layers that stream from their source. The same points-plus-multipoints data therefore still fails there, while the in-memory export (write_in) succeeds. The doc comment says so, but the user-facing error remains for those layers. This is an incomplete fix, not a regression. Either extend the streamed path, or say in the PR description that streamed FlatGeobuf exports of mixed point layers still fail, and track it.

Fixed in 3699534 rather than left as a limit. write_features, which the chunked export uses, now starts the export again when a point layer turns out to mix kinds, feeding the source again; the export's feed already supports this for GeoPackage. Memory stays bounded: the FlatGeobuf writer keeps features in its temporary file and writes nothing to the output until the last one. a_streamed_point_layer_mixing_points_and_multipoints_starts_again feeds the point and the multipoint in separate chunks. cargo xtask ci passed.

github-actions · 2026-11-11T07:39:16Z

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Bugs

Predicate broader than described (medium confidence): write_in turns detect_type off when a layer has any MultiPoint and any non-multipoint geometry, not only points. A Point-declared layer holding a polygon, which dominant_type can produce, now exports with an Unknown header instead of failing. This contradicts "Every other export is unchanged" and the "points and multipoints" doc comment. Inline comment posted on fgb.rs:688, with a single-pass suggestion.
Streamed export still fails (high confidence, scoped by the PR): write_features always passes mixed_points = false, so desktop exports of streamed layers (share.rs:620-634, export.rs:159) still fail on the same data. The doc comment discloses this. Inline comment posted on fgb.rs:716.

Security

None found. The change only alters the FlatGeobuf header-type option.

Performance

Minor: the has closure scans every layer's features, including non-point layers, and makes two passes. Negligible next to the write, and the fgb.rs:688 suggestion fixes it.

Quality

Nit: #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] on write_features_typed (fgb.rs:723) is probably unnecessary. It has 7 parameters and clippy's default threshold fires above 7. Left for the release quality pass.
Test gap: a_point_layer_mixing_points_and_multipoints_is_written does not assert that the mixed file's header is Unknown, and does not cover a point layer holding a polygon, which the change also affects.

AGENTS.md

Test module unwrap() use is allowed by clippy.toml (allow-unwrap-in-tests).
Error paths report through DataError, not silent drops. No lossy path was added.
I did not build or run the tests. The checks above come from reading the code only.

Prior review threads: none existed, so I left 0 earlier concerns alone.

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Review comments at @crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs:
- Line 716: Update the streaming wrapper that calls write_features_typed so
chunked FlatGeobuf exports can handle mixed-point files produced by write_in;
establish a bounded-memory strategy that detects or otherwise supports mixed
point geometries across the stream before writing, without requiring the full
layer to be materialized.
- Line 687: Update the geometry classification around the `has` closure so
mixed-point mode is enabled only when the layer contains an actual `Point` and
its geometries are limited to `Point` and `MultiPoint`; reject other geometry
kinds before disabling type detection.

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Review of opengeos#1778: the pre-scan also matched lines and polygons in a point layer, and a layer exported a chunk at a time still failed. The writer now settles a point layer's type from its first point and, should a point of the other kind follow, starts again (feeding the features again) with each feature's own type, as the GeoPackage writer does; nothing reaches the output before the last feature. On that run a line or polygon in a point layer is refused. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

github-actions · 2026-11-11T10:48:48Z

+/// multipoints and the export must start again so. With `mixed_points`, a point layer's
+/// geometry of another kind (a line, a polygon) is refused: a file of mixed types is read as
+/// the layer of its first feature's kind.
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]


Nit (high confidence): write_run takes 7 parameters, and clippy's too_many_arguments only fires above 7, so this allow isn't needed. Removing it:

Suggested change

#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]

Also a readability nit, grouped here: the match guard if *first_multi.get_or_insert(m) != m mutates first_multi inside the guard. Setting it in a separate statement before the match would be easier to follow. These are quality points, so they can wait for the release quality pass.

Left for the release quality pass: both are style points, and the allow is harmless.

github-actions · 2026-11-11T10:48:54Z

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Bugs: None confirmed. I traced the restart path through write_features → write_run and through the streamed caller in export.rs. The caller already resets its counters and progress on each feed, which the GeoPackage path also relies on. Non-point geometry in a mixed run is refused with an error, not dropped. (Confidence: high.)

Security: None found. The change only adds writer logic and tests. (Confidence: high.)

Performance: A streamed point layer that mixes points and multipoints is read twice, because the export restarts. This applies only to mixed layers, and the cost is expected. I could not check whether the flatgeobuf writer removes its temporary file when the first run is dropped on restart, since that code is outside the repository. (Confidence: low; unverified.)

Quality:

Inline on fgb.rs:732: the #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)] is unneeded at 7 parameters. Also grouped there, a readability nit: the match guard mutates first_multi. (Confidence: high.)

AGENTS.md:

The PR body is stale. Its third bullet says a streamed mixed layer "still fails with the same error", but the diff now handles it by restarting the export. The body should be updated. (Confidence: high.)
The change meets the other rules I checked: no unwrap in non-test code, the mixed-layer error is an error rather than a silent loss, and no new background work was added.
I could not run cargo xtask ci or the new tests because I have no shell. I checked the APIs the tests use by reading the code. (Confidence: medium for compilation.)

Earlier review threads: Four threads already exist (fgb.rs lines 687, 688, 716). All four are outdated and refer to a has(false) predicate that no longer exists. The current code addresses each one: non-point geometry is refused in mixed mode, and the streamed path restarts. I did not re-post any of them. Count left alone: 4.

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-    write_features_typed(&ds.name, ds.geometry_type, &ds.fields, crs, has(true) && has(false), &mut out, &mut |add| add(&ds.features))?;
+    let mut mixed = false;
+    if ds.geometry_type == GeometryType::Point {
+        let (mut point, mut multi) = (false, false);
+        for g in ds.features.iter().filter_map(|f| f.geometry.as_ref()) {
+            match g {
+                crate::Geometry::Point(_) => point = true,
+                crate::Geometry::MultiPoint(_) => multi = true,
+                _ => {}
+            }
+        }
+        mixed = point && multi;
+    }
+    write_features_typed(&ds.name, ds.geometry_type, &ds.fields, crs, mixed, &mut out, &mut |add| add(&ds.features))?;

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