Fixed #33866 -- Added pathlib.Path support to GDALRaster constructor.

django/contrib/gis/gdal/raster/source.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from ctypes import (
     c_void_p,
     string_at,
 )
+from pathlib import Path
 
 from django.contrib.gis.gdal.driver import Driver
 from django.contrib.gis.gdal.error import GDALException
@@ -83,7 +84,8 @@ class GDALRaster(GDALRasterBase):
             ds_input = json.loads(ds_input)
 
         # If input is a valid file path, try setting file as source.
-        if isinstance(ds_input, str):
+        if isinstance(ds_input, (str, Path)):
+            ds_input = str(ds_input)
             if not ds_input.startswith(VSI_FILESYSTEM_PREFIX) and not os.path.exists(
                 ds_input
             ):

docs/ref/contrib/gis/gdal.txt

@@ -1107,9 +1107,10 @@ blue.
     raster should be opened in write mode. For newly-created rasters, the second
     parameter is ignored and the new raster is always created in write mode.
 
-    The first parameter can take three forms: a string representing a file path
+    The first parameter can take three forms: a string or
-    (filesystem or GDAL virtual filesystem), a dictionary with values defining
+    :class:`~pathlib.Path` representing a file path (filesystem or GDAL virtual
-    a new raster, or a bytes object representing a raster file.
+    filesystem), a dictionary with values defining a new raster, or a bytes
+    object representing a raster file.
 
     If the input is a file path, the raster is opened from there. If the input
     is raw data in a dictionary, the parameters ``width``, ``height``, and
@@ -1160,6 +1161,10 @@ blue.
         >>> rst.name  # Stored in a random path in the vsimem filesystem.
         '/vsimem/da300bdb-129d-49a8-b336-e410a9428dad'
 
+    .. versionchanged:: 4.2
+
+        Support for :class:`pathlib.Path` ``ds_input`` was added.
+
     .. attribute:: name
 
         The name of the source which is equivalent to the input file path or the name

docs/releases/4.2.txt

@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ Minor features
   ``id`` key for serialized features, which defaults to the primary key of
   objects.
 
+* The :class:`~django.contrib.gis.gdal.GDALRaster` class now supports
+  :class:`pathlib.Path`.
+
 :mod:`django.contrib.messages`
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

tests/gis_tests/gdal_tests/test_raster.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import shutil
 import struct
 import tempfile
 import zipfile
+from pathlib import Path
 from unittest import mock
 
 from django.contrib.gis.gdal import GDALRaster, SpatialReference
@@ -25,6 +26,11 @@ class GDALRasterTests(SimpleTestCase):
         )
         self.rs = GDALRaster(self.rs_path)
 
+    def test_gdalraster_input_as_path(self):
+        rs_path = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "data" / "rasters" / "raster.tif"
+        rs = GDALRaster(rs_path)
+        self.assertEqual(str(rs_path), rs.name)
+
     def test_rs_name_repr(self):
         self.assertEqual(self.rs_path, self.rs.name)
         self.assertRegex(repr(self.rs), r"<Raster object at 0x\w+>")