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The third part of step 2 of #1111. Exporting a layer as FlatGeobuf in the web app aborted the whole app; now the browser refuses FlatGeobuf with a message, and its Export Features dialog no longer offers it.

Builds on #1146 (which builds on #1131), whose commits show here until they merge; this pull request's own change is the last commit.

The crash. Reproduced in the preview of #1146 (?embed, then ui.exportLayer with "format": "fgb"): GeoJSON downloads, FlatGeobuf panics with no filesystem on this platform (std's temp_dir on wasm32-unknown-unknown), the panic traps as RuntimeError: unreachable, and the app stops answering. catch_unwind can't help there, as the web build aborts on a panic.

Why not write it unindexed, as #1111 planned. The flatgeobuf crate's writer creates its spill file with tempfile::tempfile() in FgbWriter::create_with_options whether or not it writes an index (6.0.1, the latest, and its current master), and its feature encoder is private, so there is no public way to write a FlatGeobuf without that file. Writing the format ourselves would mean re-implementing the encoder on a new direct flatbuffers dependency. The better fix is upstream: a way to give the writer an in-memory store (or to skip it when there's no index). Once that ships, the web app can offer FlatGeobuf again.

The change.

  • fgb::write_features, the one place FlatGeobuf is written (whole-layer exports, io::write_bytes_in, and the streamed exports of perf(data): export a streamed layer a chunk at a time #1146), refuses in the browser before it creates the writer: "unsupported file type: FlatGeobuf in the browser", as GeoPackage already is. Any route to it in the web app (the dialog, command search, a script, the AI Assistant) now gets that message instead of a dead app.
  • Export Features in the web app lists formats from dialogs::export_formats(web), which leaves out GeoPackage and FlatGeobuf; the desktop lists all of them.
  • The user guide (Writing, Sharing) and the comparison page say the web app doesn't write FlatGeobuf.
  • Also from perf(data): export a streamed layer a chunk at a time #1146's review: two comments reworded (parquet.rs, export/tests.rs).

Testing

  • cargo xtask ci (fmt, clippy -D warnings, the workspace tests, layers): passes (2,888 tests).
  • cargo build --locked --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-web: passes, without warnings.
  • The commit hooks: pass.
  • New test dialogs::tests::the_web_export_dialog_offers_no_geopackage_or_flatgeobuf: opens Export Features in the app with a download service (the web app) and without (the desktop), opens its Format list and reads what it offers: no FlatGeobuf or GeoPackage on the web, both on the desktop.
  • In the browser, this pull request's preview (14e6857), framed with ?embed and sent a one-layer project: ui.exportLayer as GeoJSON downloads; as FlatGeobuf it answers {"ok": false, "error": "unsupported file type: FlatGeobuf in the browser"} with no console error; a CSV export after it downloads, so the app is still running. The same steps on perf(data): export a streamed layer a chunk at a time #1146's preview aborted the app at the FlatGeobuf export.

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Part of #1111

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  • New Features
    • Export large local layers on desktop in chunks to GeoJSON, CSV, FlatGeobuf, GeoPackage, and GeoParquet, avoiding the need to load the entire source at once.
    • Exported features are converted to the selected coordinate system, and CSV exports preserve feature order.
  • Availability
    • The web app does not offer GeoPackage or FlatGeobuf exports.
  • Documentation
    • Updated format and large-file guidance to explain desktop chunked exports, web format availability, and GeoParquet row-group sizing.

Mavrick-F and others added 7 commits October 29, 2026 07:45
`visit_chunks` for GeoPackage (desktop and the browser's reader), FlatGeobuf and
GeoParquet files and uploads, behind a new `visits_chunks()` capability that,
unlike `streams_chunks()`, leaves drawing alone. The Shapefile's chunk
accounting moves into a shared `Chunker`. The first part of opengeos#1111 step 2:
exports will stream from these chunks.

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…eoPackage

- GeoParquet: a row group longer than a read takes from one is an error, not a
  shorter traversal reported complete.
- GeoPackage: pages of rows by rowid on the source's own connection, read under
  its lock and handed over after it, instead of reopening the file by path.
- The trait says what `matched` counts for each provider.

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…pened

- GeoPackage: one statement on a read-only connection of its own (one
  snapshot, the same query and order as a read) instead of pages by rowid,
  refusing a file put in place of the one opened (device and inode, on Unix).
- GeoParquet: an oversized row group is refused before anything of it is read,
  after a row group outside the extent is passed over.
- Tests compare unindexed extent visits in order; the trait names FlatGeobuf's
  list of matches.

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… short Parquet column

- GeoPackage: the file's identity is taken before the database is opened, so a
  file swapped in while it opens can't pass for it; `visits_chunks()` is true
  only with a file.
- GeoParquet: a row group over the cap and one with a short geometry column
  give their own errors.
- Tests: the browser reader's skipped rows; a capped row group outside the
  extent is passed over; a chunk is over the budget only for a row alone too big.

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`share.exportLayer` of a layer read in place reads its source a chunk at a
time, reprojects each chunk in place and writes it, for GeoJSON, CSV,
FlatGeobuf, GeoPackage and GeoParquet on the desktop, so these exports no
longer hold the layer or stop at `MAX_LIMIT`. Each of those formats has one
writer, shared by the in-memory and streamed exports. A GeoPackage chooses its
point table type and id keeping from the features so far and starts again if
a later one contradicts that. Shapefile, KML, KMZ, GPX, sources by web address
and the web app keep the whole-layer path.

Also from opengeos#1131's review: the GeoPackage traversal's doc says a writer of the
file waits for it, and a removed file fails as missing.

Part of opengeos#1111.

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…ile its own

- A GeoPackage export of a whole layer fails, rather than leaving a feature
  out, should one not fit the table chosen for the layer.
- The temporary file of a streamed export is opened before its cleanup, so a
  name already taken is never removed.
- The user guide says a GeoParquet source's memory grows with its largest row
  group.
- The 2,000,001-feature export test checks every row, once and in order.

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The flatgeobuf crate's writer always creates a temporary file, which in the
browser reaches `std::env::temp_dir` and aborts the app. The browser now
refuses FlatGeobuf with a message, and its Export Features dialog no longer
offers it. Also two comments reworded from opengeos#1146's review.

Part of opengeos#1111.

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Minor Correct the GeoParquet export limit in the data formats guide.

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Streamed feature sources can now be exported in chunks to supported formats. The change adds incremental writers and connects them to layer export. Web export options exclude GeoPackage and FlatGeobuf.

Changes: Chunked feature exports

Layer / File(s) Summary
Incremental format writers
crates/data/src/io.rs, crates/data/src/source/*
GeoJSON, CSV, FlatGeobuf, GeoPackage, and Parquet writers accept incremental feature data. File-based output uses atomic placement.
Export orchestration and engine integration
crates/data/src/export.rs, crates/data/src/lib.rs, crates/map/src/*, crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs, crates/data/src/export/tests.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, crates/data/src/source/tests.rs
The data crate exposes chunked export, layers provide source handles and metadata, and the engine selects streamed or whole-layer export. Tests cover output parity, errors, validation, and large-source exports.
Platform format availability and documentation
crates/ui-egui/src/*, docs/comparison/index.md, docs/user-guide/*
The web format list excludes GeoPackage and FlatGeobuf. Documentation describes desktop chunked exports and related format limits.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ExportFeatures
  participant Layer
  participant FeatureSource
  participant write_source_in
  participant FormatWriter
  ExportFeatures->>Layer: request chunk source and metadata
  Layer->>FeatureSource: open a readable source copy
  Layer-->>ExportFeatures: return source and metadata
  ExportFeatures->>write_source_in: start streamed export
  write_source_in->>FeatureSource: visit feature chunks
  FeatureSource-->>FormatWriter: provide feature batches
  FormatWriter-->>write_source_in: return written and left-out counts
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Possibly related issues

  • Issue 1111 concerns FlatGeobuf export in the web app. This PR also addresses browser FlatGeobuf support by refusing it and removing it from the web export list.

Possibly related PRs

  • opengeos/RustGIS#1146: Adds the chunked export implementation extended here with browser-specific FlatGeobuf handling.
  • opengeos/RustGIS#1131: Adds chunk traversal for sources consumed by this PR’s streamed export path.
  • opengeos/RustGIS#1116: Adds whole-source read limits that the streamed export path can avoid for supported formats.

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A rabbit watched the chunks roll by,
While fields and features streamed on high.
GeoJSON and CSV found their way,
Each writer counted what it lay.
The rabbit hopped through files at play.

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let mut chunks = super::chunk_memory::Chunker::new(bytes, visit)?;
match &self.input {
Input::Path(p) => self.visit_with(&|| Ok(BufReader::new(std::fs::File::open(p)?)), extent, &mut chunks),
Input::Bytes(b) => self.visit_with(&|| Ok(Cursor::new(b.clone())), extent, &mut chunks),

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Memory (medium confidence): for an in-memory FlatGeobuf, visit_with calls open() several times, and each call does Cursor::new(b.clone()), copying the whole upload. The reader plus the search reader are alive together, so peak memory is about 2 to 3 times the upload. That contradicts the visit_chunks doc ("one feature decoded at a time from the file or upload"). The same clone already exists in read_with, so this isn't new, but this PR advertises chunked memory for exports. Suggest holding the bytes in an Arc<[u8]> (or similar) so each open is a cheap clone, or documenting the copy.

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No copy: Input::Bytes holds a Shared, which is #[derive(Clone)] struct Shared(Arc<Vec<u8>>) (source/mod.rs:318-320), so b.clone() bumps a reference count and every Cursor reads the one buffer. (Answered the same way on #1146.)

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Claude autofix (declined): No copy is made. Input::Bytes holds a super::Shared (crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs:28), which wraps Arc<Vec<u8>> (crates/data/src/source/mod.rs:319-320), so each b.clone() only bumps a reference count and the readers share one buffer.

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Bugs

  • No correctness bugs found. I traced the streamed GeoPackage restart logic (at most three passes, temp file dropped on each restart), the GeoParquet row-group and covering-box filtering, and the chunker's oversized-row path. They match the whole-read behaviour, and the parity tests cover them. (confidence: high)

Security

  • No new issues. The GeoPackage chunk reader uses the same read-only, query-only hardened open as the existing reader. Parquet row counts are capped and use saturating arithmetic. Non-test code has no new unwrap, expect, panic, or unchecked indexing. (confidence: high)

Performance

  • In-memory FlatGeobuf memory: visit_with clones the whole upload on every open(), and up to about 3 copies can be alive at once, which contradicts the "one feature at a time" claim. The same clone already exists in read_with, so this is not new. (confidence: medium) — inline comment posted.
  • first_kind pulls up to one 32 MB chunk before it can peek the first geometry. It only runs for layers with no declared geometry type, so the cost is small. (confidence: low)

Quality

  • The wasm guard in fgb::write_features is a cfg! check, so native tests never reach it. The crash fix therefore has no regression test that exercises the refusal; the dialog test only checks that the menu hides FlatGeobuf. (confidence: medium) — inline comment posted.
  • The GeoJsonWriter doc says its member order matches to_geojson. It doesn't: serde_json here has no preserve_order, so to_geojson emits keys sorted (features, name, type). (confidence: high) — inline comment posted.
  • Nits, grouped: the data-formats.md GeoParquet "row groups of 65,536 features" line is now only an upper bound for streamed exports, and the Export Features row still says "loads a streamed layer's whole source". Both are inline-commented on data-formats.md. The Chunker's shrink_to_fit on every flush and the first_kind sentinel-error control flow are style points, not defects.

AGENTS.md

  • Wasm: export.rs and the new helpers compile for wasm32; streams() and the cfg! guard keep the browser away from the writers.
  • Crash rule: "every crash fix gets a regression test" is only partly met (see Quality above).
  • Translation, layering, assets, and commands-don't-open-dialogs: no violations found. No new dependencies.

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crates/data/src/export/tests.rs 0 B 11.2 KB +11.2 KB
crates/data/src/source/gpkg.rs 33.8 KB 43.6 KB +9.8 KB
crates/data/src/source/tests.rs 88.7 KB 95.6 KB +7.0 KB
crates/data/src/source/parquet.rs 47.3 KB 53.2 KB +5.9 KB
crates/data/src/export.rs 0 B 5.6 KB +5.6 KB
crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs 28.0 KB 32.6 KB +4.7 KB
crates/data/src/io.rs 126.4 KB 130.4 KB +3.9 KB
crates/data/src/source/gpkg_mem.rs 12.6 KB 15.0 KB +2.5 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs 107.9 KB 109.9 KB +2.0 KB
crates/data/src/source/chunk_memory.rs 1.5 KB 3.3 KB +1.8 KB
crates/map/src/lib.rs 129.8 KB 131.1 KB +1.3 KB
crates/data/src/source/mod.rs 29.7 KB 30.7 KB +1.0 KB
crates/data/src/source/shp.rs 23.3 KB 22.4 KB −0.9 KB
crates/engine/src/tests.rs 1.22 MB 1.22 MB +0.9 KB
crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs 5.3 KB 6.0 KB +0.7 KB
docs/user-guide/data.md 78.2 KB 78.9 KB +0.6 KB
crates/map/src/source.rs 49.1 KB 49.3 KB +0.2 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs 215.2 KB 215.3 KB +0.1 KB
docs/user-guide/data-formats.md 44.5 KB 44.6 KB +0.1 KB
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Minor follow-up Remove the staging file when a writer panics.

606-617: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Remove the staging file when a writer panics.

write_atomic_with creates the staging file and then runs the caller's writer. Its cleanup runs only when the writer returns Err. If the writer panics, the unwind skips that cleanup, and the partly written staging file remains beside the destination. The engine's command guard catches the panic and returns an error, but it does not remove staging files. Use a drop guard that deletes the staging file unless the rename succeeds, so cleanup also runs on unwind.

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…a panicking export

- The browser refusal goes through `fgb::writable`, so a native test covers it.
- A streamed export's temporary file is removed by a drop guard, on a panic in
  its writer as on an error.
- The user guide says a streamed layer exports a chunk at a time on the
  desktop, and GeoParquet row groups hold up to 65,536 features; the GeoJSON
  writer's doc gives its member order.

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Both reviews of 14e6857 are handled in 700bd34; cargo xtask ci (2,890 tests) and the wasm build (no warnings) pass. Inline findings have their own replies. CodeRabbit's follow-up, the staging file left by a writer that panics, is fixed: write_atomic_with holds the file in a guard that removes it when dropped (on an error or an unwind alike) unless the rename succeeded, with a_panicking_writer_leaves_nothing_behind checking it.

The browser check is now in the description: this PR's preview answers a FlatGeobuf export with "unsupported file type: FlatGeobuf in the browser" and keeps running.

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Changed since your approval of 14e6857: a streamed export's temporary file is removed by a drop guard (also on a panic); the browser refusal goes through fgb::writable with a native test; user-guide corrections (streamed exports, Parquet row groups) and the GeoJSON writer's doc.

let mut types: Vec<&'static str> = Vec::new();
let mut extent = Extent::EMPTY;
feed(&mut |features| {
for rows in features.chunks(WRITE_GROUP_ROWS) {

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Performance (medium confidence): a streamed export calls write_features once per source chunk, and each chunk becomes its own row group(s). Chunks are sized by bytes (32 MB), so a layer whose features average around 16 KB gets about 2,000 rows per row group, against the 65,536 a whole-layer export writes. That is roughly 30× more row groups for the same layer, and every extra row group adds per-column footer metadata and reader overhead (4 bbox columns plus geometry and attributes each). Features bigger than the budget get a row group of one row each.

The doc line "row groups of up to 65,536 features" is accurate but hides this. Either buffer rows across chunks up to WRITE_GROUP_ROWS, or close a row group when the buffered bytes reach the budget, or at least document that streamed GeoParquet row-group size follows the source's chunk size.

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Row groups of a streamed export are sized by bytes, a chunk's 32 MB of decoded features (smaller on disk once encoded and compressed), and capped at 65,536 rows. For small features that's the whole-layer size; for large ones it's fewer rows of about the same bytes, which is within the usual row-group sizes for Parquet readers, and buffering across chunks would hold more than one chunk, which the streamed export avoids. The code comment on write_features says the groups end with the chunks; I'll carry a line to the same effect into the user guide with the follow-up below.

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Claude autofix (unclear): This is a design choice for a maintainer. A streamed GeoParquet export writes one row group per source chunk (crates/data/src/source/parquet.rs:976 says so), so row groups are sized by bytes and can be far smaller than 65,536 rows. Buffering rows across chunks would hold more than one chunk in memory, which the streamed export avoids. The user guide does not yet say that row-group size follows the chunk size, so the wording still needs a decision.

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I read the full diff against the staged AGENTS.md and checked the key claims against the head sources. I did not build or run the tests (no shell here), so the findings below come from reading the code. No blocking correctness bug turned up. The wasm gating, the FlatGeobuf browser refusal, the atomic-write cleanup and the GeoPackage redo logic all check out on reading.

Bugs

  • None confirmed.

Security

  • None found. Temp files are created with create_new, so symlinks aren't followed. The GeoPackage source checks file identity before and after opening.

Performance

  • GeoParquet streamed export writes one or more row groups per source chunk, so row-group size follows the byte budget rather than 65,536 rows. For features averaging ~16 KB this is about 30× more row groups than a whole-layer export. Posted inline at crates/data/src/source/parquet.rs:1039. Confidence: medium.
  • first_kind peeks with the full 32 MB export budget before deciding the layer's geometry type. Posted inline at crates/data/src/export.rs:61 with a one-line suggestion. Confidence: low.
  • FlatGeobuf uploads (Input::Bytes) copy the whole buffer on each open(). The existing read path does the same, so this is not new. Confidence: low.

Quality

  • The GeoJSON writer changes member order (type, name, features) in projected_bytes, so web and data.convert downloads change bytes, though the content is equal. The doc comment acknowledges this. Confidence: high that it changes; low that it matters.
  • The GeoPackage streamed export can rescan the whole source up to three times (once per redo) when a duplicate id or a multipoint appears late. Bounded and correct, but worth a note in the docs. Confidence: medium.

AGENTS.md

  • No unwrap, expect, panic! or unsafe in non-test code. Crash fixes have regression tests. The wasm gating (cfg(not(wasm32)) on the GeoPackage writer, writable() on FlatGeobuf) fits the rule. No new user-facing literals need tl!.
  • The docs say "with no limit on its size" for streamed export. Desktop GeoParquet still refuses row groups above 2^24 rows, so that claim is too broad. Confidence: medium.

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Compared with main (merge base 7bf2e20 to PR head 700bd34).

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crates/data/src/source/tests.rs 88.7 KB 95.6 KB +7.0 KB
crates/data/src/source/parquet.rs 47.3 KB 53.2 KB +5.9 KB
crates/data/src/export.rs 0 B 5.6 KB +5.6 KB
crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs 28.0 KB 33.2 KB +5.2 KB
crates/data/src/io.rs 126.5 KB 130.7 KB +4.3 KB
crates/data/src/source/gpkg_mem.rs 12.6 KB 15.0 KB +2.5 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs 107.9 KB 109.9 KB +2.0 KB
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crates/data/src/source/mod.rs 29.7 KB 30.7 KB +1.0 KB
crates/data/src/source/shp.rs 23.3 KB 22.4 KB −0.9 KB

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@giswqs giswqs added the claude-autofix Apply to have Claude merge the base, resolve conflicts and fix review comments (re-add to run again) label Oct 31, 2026
A streamed export of a layer that declares no geometry type finds the
first geometry by reading the source. The peek used the 32 MB chunk
budget, and a chunk is handed over only once it is full, so a layer
whose first feature has geometry still decoded a whole chunk first.
The peek now reads one megabyte, which is enough to find the first
geometry of a typical layer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Comment thread crates/data/src/io.rs

/// As [`write_atomic`], the file written through `write` as it goes rather than from bytes held
/// whole: for exports that write a layer a chunk at a time. Returns what `write` returns.
pub(crate) fn write_atomic_with<T>(path: &Path, write: impl FnOnce(&mut std::io::BufWriter<std::fs::File>) -> Result<T>) -> Result<T> {

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Bug (build break, high confidence): this is a second top-level pub(crate) fn write_atomic_with in the same module as the existing pub fn write_atomic_with at line 603. Rust rejects two functions with the same name in one module (E0428), so rustgis-data won't compile at this head. The existing function is public API: crates/engine/src/cmd/project.rs:129 and the tests at io.rs:2425 and io.rs:2432 call it.

Suggested fix: give the streamed variant its own name, for example write_atomic_streamed, and update its callers in crates/data/src/export.rs (the import on line 9 and the four calls at lines 87–102) and crates/data/src/export/tests.rs:249. The Staged guard also repeats write_new_with's cleanup logic, so it's worth folding the two together once the names are separate.

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pub(crate) fn write_atomic_with<T>(path: &Path, write: impl FnOnce(&mut std::io::BufWriter<std::fs::File>) -> Result<T>) -> Result<T> {
pub(crate) fn write_atomic_streamed<T>(path: &Path, write: impl FnOnce(&mut std::io::BufWriter<std::fs::File>) -> Result<T>) -> Result<T> {

Comment thread crates/data/src/export.rs
}
total = total.saturating_add(chunk.len());
add(&chunk)
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AGENTS.md "Never silent" (medium confidence): the Batch returned by visit_chunks is discarded here (src.visit_chunks(...)?; on line 76, with the result dropped at line 82). Its skipped count is the number of rows the source couldn't read (for GeoPackage, Row::Bad in gpkg.rs). A streamed export therefore drops unreadable rows without a notice. The whole-layer path does the same through load_all, which discards its ReadReport, so this is pre-existing there. This new path has the count in hand and should report it.

Suggested direction: return skipped in Exported next to left_out, then have share.exportLayer in crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs notify once with a count, for example "N rows couldn't be read and were left out". Add a test that a source with unreadable rows gives the notice and a clean source gives none.

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Bugs

  • Build break (high confidence). crates/data/src/io.rs defines write_atomic_with twice at module level: the existing public function at line 603 and a new pub(crate) one at line 615. Rust rejects this (E0428), so rustgis-data won't compile at this head. The existing function is used by crates/engine/src/cmd/project.rs:129 and by tests at io.rs:2425–2432. The stated cargo xtask ci result can't hold for this head. Posted inline with a rename suggestion.

Security

  • Nothing found. New code doesn't add unsafe, unwrap, or panic paths in non-test code.

Performance

  • Low: write_features_in (gpkg.rs) restarts a streamed GeoPackage export from the start when a later feature needs a MULTIPOINT table or renumbered ids. A late multipoint can therefore read the source two or three times. The restart is documented and bounded to three passes, so I'm not raising it as a defect.

Quality

  • The new write_atomic_with repeats the cleanup logic of write_new_with. It's worth folding them together once the names are separate (see the build-break comment).
  • first_kind (export.rs) uses a sentinel DataError::Format("found a geometry") to stop traversal. It works, but a dedicated stop signal would read more clearly. Nit, low confidence.
  • The GeoJsonWriter output changes key order from sorted to type, name, features in write_bytes_in. The doc comment says so, so this is intentional. Nit.

AGENTS.md

  • "Never silent" (medium confidence). write_chunks_in drops the Batch.skipped count from visit_chunks, so unreadable rows vanish from a streamed export without a notice. Posted inline with a suggested direction.
  • The FlatGeobuf web refusal, its tests in both directions, and the dialog change all follow the rules. The docs and the docs/user-guide/data-formats.md row-group wording match the code.
  • The PR body says cargo xtask ci passed. That can't be true for the head as staged, so the test claim needs re-running.

Change size

Compared with main (merge base 78b1799 to PR head 098f428), covering the whole PR. This includes the stacked #1146 and #1131 commits.

Measure Value
Files changed 18 (2 added, 16 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
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Total size change +37.9 KB (+38,775 B)
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crates/data/src/export/tests.rs 0 B 11.4 KB +11.4 KB
crates/data/src/source/gpkg.rs 36.9 KB 43.6 KB +6.7 KB
crates/data/src/export.rs 0 B 5.7 KB +5.7 KB
crates/data/src/io.rs 127.7 KB 131.9 KB +4.3 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs 109.6 KB 111.6 KB +2.0 KB
crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs 31.2 KB 33.2 KB +1.9 KB
crates/map/src/lib.rs 149.3 KB 150.7 KB +1.3 KB
crates/data/src/source/parquet.rs 51.9 KB 53.2 KB +1.2 KB
crates/engine/src/tests.rs 1.28 MB 1.28 MB +900 B
crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs 5.3 KB 6.0 KB +765 B
docs/user-guide/data.md 78.4 KB 79.0 KB +625 B
docs/user-guide/data-formats.md 52.2 KB 52.5 KB +263 B
crates/data/src/source/tests.rs 96.5 KB 96.8 KB +247 B
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crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs 217.8 KB 218.1 KB +110 B
docs/user-guide/sharing.md 4.2 KB 4.2 KB +66 B
crates/data/src/lib.rs 16.9 KB 16.9 KB +16 B
docs/comparison/index.md 16.5 KB 16.5 KB +15 B

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crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs: 1

2128-2134: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that CSV and Shapefile appear in the web Format list.

The web test checks that GeoPackage and FlatGeobuf are absent. It checks that GeoParquet and KML are present. It does not check that CSV or Shapefile are present in the rendered dropdown. The helper check at the end covers only export_formats(true), not the rendered list. A dropdown that drops CSV and Shapefile would pass. Add presence assertions for both labels in the web case, using the labels from EXPORT_FORMATS.

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Review comment at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs around lines 2128 - 2134:
Update the rendered Format-list assertions in the web case to verify that both
CSV and Shapefile are offered, using their labels from EXPORT_FORMATS. Keep the
existing presence and absence checks and the export_formats(true) check
unchanged.
crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs: 1

728-729: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Test the browser guard through write_features.

The new test calls writable directly, so it does not exercise the writable(cfg!(target_arch = "wasm32")) call in write_features. Removing that call would leave the test passing. The test name also claims more than it checks. Pass the browser flag into write_features, or add a test that runs on a wasm target. A flag-based test on native targets can then cover the refusal path.

Possible change

Change write_features to take browser: bool and call writable(browser)?;. Have write_in pass cfg!(target_arch = "wasm32"). Update the caller in crates/data/src/export.rs. Add a native test that calls write_features with true and asserts the Unsupported error.

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Review comment at @crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs around lines 728 - 729:
Update write_features to accept the browser flag and invoke writable(browser);
have write_in pass the wasm target check and update its caller accordingly. Add
a native test that calls write_features with the browser flag enabled and
asserts it returns DataError::Unsupported, so the test covers the guard in the
write_features path.

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Review comments at @docs/user-guide/data-formats.md:
- Line 432: Update the streamed-layer export description in the data formats
guide to clarify that desktop GeoParquet exports are limited to 16,777,216 rows
per row group; retain the existing behavior description for the other formats.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs:
- Around line 728-729: Update write_features to accept the browser flag and
invoke writable(browser); have write_in pass the wasm target check and update
its caller accordingly. Add a native test that calls write_features with the
browser flag enabled and asserts it returns DataError::Unsupported, so the test
covers the guard in the write_features path.

Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs:
- Around line 2128-2134: Update the rendered Format-list assertions in the web
case to verify that both CSV and Shapefile are offered, using their labels from
EXPORT_FORMATS. Keep the existing presence and absence checks and the
export_formats(true) check unchanged.

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| Format | How to write it | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GeoJSON (`.geojson`, `.json`), CSV | Data › Export (`share.exportLayer`) | The Export Features dialog picks the format; the chosen extension is appended when needed. In the web app it downloads any vector format below except GeoPackage (a Shapefile as one zip). Feature export loads a streamed layer's whole source; remote sources on the web must be downloaded first. |
| GeoJSON (`.geojson`, `.json`), CSV | Data › Export (`share.exportLayer`) | The Export Features dialog picks the format; the chosen extension is appended when needed. In the web app it downloads any vector format below except GeoPackage and FlatGeobuf (a Shapefile as one zip). A streamed layer exports its whole source: on the desktop, to GeoJSON, CSV, FlatGeobuf, GeoPackage or GeoParquet a chunk at a time with no limit on its size, otherwise loaded whole (see [Streamed layers](data.md)); remote sources on the web must be downloaded first. |

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Supported by static analysis

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Correct the GeoParquet export limit in the data formats guide.

The guide says a streamed layer exports to GeoParquet "a chunk at a time with no limit on its size." On desktop, a GeoParquet source with a row group of more than 16,777,216 rows fails this export with a row-group error. Qualify the sentence so it states that the limit applies per row group, or name the limit (for example, "row groups of up to 16,777,216 rows on the desktop").

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Review comment at @docs/user-guide/data-formats.md at line 432:
Update the streamed-layer export description in the data formats guide to
clarify that desktop GeoParquet exports are limited to 16,777,216 rows per row
group; retain the existing behavior description for the other formats.

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