Qgis 2.7 (Dev) feature rotation?

Question

Curious if the following code has a blatant error that has been overlooked with respect to rotating a single polygon feature.

The *.geometry().rotate(...) returns a '0', indicating it was successful - yet the display and data-source do not depict any rotation; even after reload / refresh of layer, legend, and canvas.

Either the problem is in syntax, or maybe (because this is a Dev release) a not yet fully operational function?

inputShapeRef.startEditing()
featureSearch = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFid(int(inputShapeID))
featureRef = inputShapeRef.getFeatures(featureSearch)
for feature in featureRef:
    feature.geometry().rotate(self.MaxRotation,self.baseCentroid)
inputShapeRef.commitChanges()

UPDATE: Single line of code was missing, and the following is the updated script. Sucessfully rotates the shape to the desired angle; quite rapidly!

    inputShapeRef.startEditing()
    featureSearch = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFid(int(inputShapeID))
    featureRef = inputShapeRef.getFeatures(featureSearch)
    for feature in featureRef:
        feature.geometry().rotate(self.MaxRotation,self.baseCentroid)
        inputShapeRef.changeGeometry(feature.id(),feature.geometry())  # <=== + = success
    inputShapeRef.commitChanges()

FINAL THOUGHTS / QUESTIONS:

Does anyone know if this functionality carries over to an entire layer, the layers extent, or selection of multiple features? The SAGA translate processing function fulfills this need - but is data-thirsty. The low data-overhead and rapid return of this new single feature rotation would be highly beneficial for an entire layer or selection of multiple features therein.

For example, say a point array needs to be rotated in sync with an associated bounding polygon - rather then rotate each point individually, is there a means of rotating the entire array simultaneously without creating a new dataset?

Answer 1

Your are not modifying vector, but features "copies" get with getFeatures. You need to get the feature.id() and updateGeometry using dataProvider of the vector or directly using methods of the vector layer (inside an editing session)

you can find reference of the methods in: for QgsVectorDataProvider: virtual bool changeGeometryValues (QgsGeometryMap &geometry_map) (you have references how to do in pyqgis cookbook) After have to triggerRepaint

for QgsVectorLayer: bool changeGeometry (QgsFeatureId fid, QgsGeometry *geom) after commitChanges, no need of triggerRepaint

regards, Luigi Pirelli