pyqgis_wrappers

Common functions to be used in pyqgis and python qgis plugins

NOTE: Just a sandbox for now. Don't consider the API stable.

These are wrappers around common pyqgis idioms that allows for faster development and hopefully removes some of the (sometimes) ugly C/C++ based API (read: not Python-ish)

The current plan is to flesh out ideas here and then mirgate them to core QGIS as they become stable or well designed.

What can it do so far?

Opening a project

with qgisapp(sys.argv, guienabled=True) as app:
    canvas = QgsMapCanvas()
    with open_project(pfile, canvas=canvas) as project:
        print project

or without the with block

with qgisapp(sys.argv, guienabled=True) as app:
    canvas = QgsMapCanvas()
    project = open_project(pfile, canvas=canvas)
    print project

Rendering a composer template from a file.

import sys
from qgis.gui import QgsMapCanvas
from wrappers import render_template, map_layers, open_project, qgisapp

pfile = r"project.qgs"
template = r"template.qpt"

with qgisapp(sys.argv, guienabled=True) as app:
    canvas = QgsMapCanvas()
    with open_project(pfile, canvas=canvas) as project:
        settings = project.map_settings
        render_template(template, settings, canvas, r"out.pdf")

or without the with block

with qgisapp(sys.argv, guienabled=True) as app:
    canvas = QgsMapCanvas()
    project = open_project(pfile, canvas=canvas)
    settings = project.map_settings
    render_template(template, settings, canvas, r"out.pdf")
    project.close()

Listing loaded layers

from wrappers import map_layers
layers = map_layers()
mylayer = map_layers(name='mylayer')

filter by regex

from wrappers import map_layers
for layer in map_layers(".*Bound.*"):
    print layer.name()