How to use the ExactIntersect flag for QgsFeatureRequest() object

Question

I have two layers, a polygon_lyr and a line_lyr. I want to use a QgsFeatureRequest() for the line_lyr.getFeatures() but instead of returning the lines which intersect the bounding box of a polygon, I just want the lines which intersect the actual polygon geometry. I assume this is what ExactIntersect flag does. But I do not know how to actually use it.

for i, poly in enumerate(polygon_lyr.getFeatures()):
    poly_geom = poly.geometry()

    for line in line_lyr.getFeatures(QgsFeatureRequest(poly_geom.boundingBox())):
        #processing operations

Answer 1

I don't think this is possible as the QgsFeatureRequest() class must use a specified bounding box if you want to add a spatial filter. An example method isQgsFeatureRequest().setFilterRect(boundingBox). The ExactIntersect flag instead uses the actual geometry of the feature for intersection, but it will be used against the bounding box.

The following is an example of using QgsFeatureRequest() where the geometry of each line is intersected with the bounding box of each polygon:

polygon_lyr = QgsProject.instance().mapLayersByName('polygon example')[0]
line_lyr = QgsProject.instance().mapLayersByName('line example')[0]
ids = []

for i, poly in enumerate(polygon_lyr.getFeatures()):
    poly_geom = poly.geometry()
    request = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterRect(poly_geom.boundingBox()).setFlags(QgsFeatureRequest.ExactIntersect)
    for line in line_lyr.getFeatures(request):
        ids.append(line.id())

line_lyr.selectByIds(ids)

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If you want to do an intersection using the line geometries against the polygon geometries, you could do this more directly using:

polygon_lyr = QgsProject.instance().mapLayersByName('polygon example')[0]
line_lyr = QgsProject.instance().mapLayersByName('line example')[0]
ids = []

for i, poly in enumerate(polygon_lyr.getFeatures()):
    poly_geom = poly.geometry()
    for line in line_lyr.getFeatures():
        if line.geometry().intersects(poly_geom):
            ids.append(line.id())

line_lyr.selectByIds(ids)