Hi Radim, On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Radim Blazek <radim.bla...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I would like to discuss possible change of providers URI format. > ... > Some possible solutions: > 1) minimal: > - add WMS additional params somehow to URI + parsing in WMS provider > (it is not clear to me why it was not done this way when WMS was > implemented) > I would avoid the 1) as it would be valid for now, but I'm pretty sure in future development we could need a more flexible solution. 2) maximal A: > - use QUrl for all providers with providers key as scheme > 3) maximal B: > - use modified QgsDataSourceURI (it is not generic, works with set > of known params only) for all params including provider key > I'd prefer the 2), it's generic and we can pass parameters using the query string. The 3) would be also good. An alternative would be use QgsDataSourceURI like a container for QUri, in this manner we can define our interface to access the uri informations. Other issues: > - should it be possible to pass via URI also layer style hints? > I don't know, probably yes. > - how the QGIS should recognize layer type of a dropped URI? Should > it be a param in URI or the QGIS should recognize that from a provider > key (asking provider)? > IMHO no, it should be the provider which takes care of this. Cheers. -- Giuseppe Sucameli
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