[Qgis-developer] Vector Layer Symbology Registry

[Jeremy Palmer]

> A good news is that you don't have to deal with the QML contents by
> yourself - QgsMapLayer::loadNamedStyle() triggers all the hard work
> for you.

Great. I'm gathering that using the loadNamedStyle method is only applicable if I decide to sync the style information into the qgis.qmldb database.

> I believe the layer should be identified by a triple (schema, table,
> geometry_column) - as used by PostGIS in geometry_columns table.

Yes I agree, but what is the best way to determine the schema, table and geometry_column for a layer that is loaded in QGIS? The provider URI does not seem sufficient to me, given my previous comments about the schema search path.

> Using that signal might work, though I'm not 100% sure.
> I have another suggestion: during creation, every map layer first
> tries to load it's default QML style (calling
> QgsMapLayer::loadDefaultStyle). For layers in files it tries to use
> the same file base name with .qml extension, if that fails, it tries
> to load the style from sqlite database ~/.qgis/qgis.qmldb. So, what
> you could do is to synchronize the local qgis.qmldb file from the
> PostGIS database (e.g. on every load, once a day or only when it's
> requested).

The only problem I see with this approach is I'm only storing the schema, table, and geometry_column fields for PostGIS layers in the centralised style database. Looking at the qgis.qmldb tbl_styles table it stores the qml data by provider URI, which in the case of the PostgreSQL provider includes other such data such as the host, post, SSL etc. If I were to populate the local tbl_styles table I would need that information, and even then it would only be specific to that PostgreSQL host.

> Btw. I've just committed a small fix for python wrappers in r12949 to
> make calling the styling functions better.

Thanks.
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