Layer Type defaults to Polygon even when drawing Rectangles

The draw:created event’s e.layer, when converted to geoJSON says that geometry.type is a Polygon, even after drawing a Rectangle. Therefore, in Edit mode - the Rectangles are not movable/vertices can be pulled to warp the shape. Any idea what might be causing this? It’s using the default L.Draw.Rectangle and options.rectangle for the nodeHandlers (as it does out of the box), so not sure why the created event says its a Polygon.

[ghost]

I use a similar trick to @Sandbird’s that I found somewhere else, where I define the geojson’s onEachFeature to something like:

L.geoJSON(geojsonFeature, {
  onEachFeature: function (feature, layer) {
    // check the custom 'rectangle' property
    if (layer instanceof L.Polygon && layer.feature.properties.rectangle) {
      layer = L.rectangle(layer.getBounds());
    }

    layer.addTo(addTo)}
})

Which works fine at making the rectangle be edited as a rectangle instead of a polygon.

Unfortunately, this trick seems to prevent click event handlers added to rectangles to work (they do work for other shapes where no trick was applied), as shown in this fiddle (open, click the big rectangle in the middle, ensure nothing happens). If, however, the conversion to L.rectangle() is commented out (as in this other fiddle), the event handler is properly called (open, click the big rectangle in the middle, close annoying alert).

Oddly enough, it works once again (even with the trick enabled) if the click handling is defined inside onEachFeature, as this final fiddle shows.

[Sandbird]

There is a way to do it. Treat is as a MultiPolygon. A typical Polygon’s coordinates has 2 brackets. a MultiPolygon has 3, (so you can add ‘cuts’ into the polygon):

So all you have to do is add an extra [ ] to your geojson coordinates and name it type: MultiPolygon. I am creating my geojson object via PHP/MySQL so this is how i create a layer to place the objects inside: Looking at the type, i decide which of the 3 types to create in the Layer. (i dont use markers so Points is used for circles…i just need to send the radius as well) And here is the final result in edit mode: