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According to documentation: https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsGeometry.html?highlight=frompolygonxy#qgis.core.QgsGeometry.fromPolygonXY

fromPolygonXY(polygon: object)→ QgsGeometry¶ Creates a new geometry from a QgsPolygon

Parameters polygon (object) –

Return type QgsGeometry

But on executing the following code, when i try to give out a QgsPolygon object as an argument to QgsGeometry.fromPolygonXY it throws out an error

def create_circle(x, y, r):
    layer = QgsVectorLayer('Polygon?crs=epsg:4326', 'poly' , "memory")
    pr = layer.dataProvider() 

    pt = QgsFeature()
    point = QgsPoint(x,y)
    # pt.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPoint(point))
    pr.addFeatures([pt])

    layer.updateExtents()

    circle = qgis.core.QgsCircle.fromCenterDiameter(center = point, diameter = 2*r)
    feat = QgsFeature()
    # print(dir(QgsGeometry))
    print(dir(circle))
    print(circle.toPolygon())
    feat.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPolygonXY(circle.toPolygon()))
    
    # circle_geom = QgsGeometry.makeCircle(point, r)
    pr.addFeatures([feat])
    return layer

circle.toPolygon() returns a QgsPolygon object as QgsCircle class has QgsEllipse as the base class

https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsEllipse.html?highlight=topolygon#qgis.core.QgsEllipse.toPolygon

toPolygon(self, segments: int = 36)→ QgsPolygon¶ Returns a segmented polygon.

Parameters segments (int = 36) – Number of segments used to segment geometry.

Return type QgsPolygon

qgis details:

QGIS version
3.21.0-Master
QGIS code revision
1906e19899
Qt version
5.15.2
Python version
3.8.7
GDAL/OGR version
3.2.3
PROJ version
6.3.2
EPSG Registry database version
v9.8.6 (2020-01-22)
GEOS version
3.9.1-CAPI-1.14.2
SQLite version
3.31.1
PDAL version
2.2.0
PostgreSQL client version
12.3
SpatiaLite version
4.3.0a
QWT version
6.1.4
QScintilla2 version
2.11.4
OS version
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  • @MrXsquared I get NameError: name 'QgsPolygonXY' is not defined Sep 16, 2021 at 19:19

1 Answer 1

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I finally figured it out, from other parts of the documentation the correct arguments that should be provided to fromPolygonXY is a [[QgsPointsXY_obj1, QgsPointsXY_obj2, ...]]

link: https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/geometry.html?highlight=polygonxy#geometry-construction

and the documentation at https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsGeometry.html?highlight=frompolygonxy#qgis.core.QgsGeometry.fromPolygonXY seems to be incorrect.

I also raised a Bug Report: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/45099

I fixed it in the code with a little bit of rearrangements as:

def create_circle(x, y, r):
    layer = QgsVectorLayer('Polygon?crs=epsg:4326', 'poly' , "memory")
    pr = layer.dataProvider() 

    pt = QgsFeature()
    point = QgsPoint(x,y)
    pr.addFeatures([pt])

    layer.updateExtents()

    circle = qgis.core.QgsCircle.fromCenterDiameter(center = point, diameter = 2*r)
    feat = QgsFeature()
    circle_points_qgspoint_xy = []
    for i in circle.points():
        circle_points_qgspoint_xy.append(QgsPointXY(i))
    feat.setGeometry(QgsGeometry.fromPolygonXY([circle_points_qgspoint_xy]))
    
    pr.addFeatures([feat])

    # add layer to the registry
    QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(layer)

    canvas = QgsMapCanvas()
    # set extent to the extent of our layer
    canvas.setExtent(layer.extent())

    # set the map canvas layer set
    canvas.setLayers([layer])

create_circle(0.662, 0.1822, 0.25)
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  • Python list comprehension: circle_points_qgspoint_xy = [QgsPointXY(i) for i in circle.points()] Oct 1, 2021 at 8:51

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