[QGIS-Developer] Read QgsProject properties

[Nyall Dawson]

On 14 February 2018 at 08:51, Gerald Kogler <geraldo at servus.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing my first explorations into pyqgis and I'm quite amazed,
> compliments for the design of the QGIS API!
>
> So far I recursively read layer groups and layers from QgsProject and
> write a json file which I then use to build a layer switcher for Openlayers.
>
> Now I need to add additional information which is part of .qgs project
> file, but I don't have any clue how to access it without parsing the
> XML. Everything from .qgs can be read by API methods?
>
> For example, I want to add to each layer its "Identifiable" info. There
> is a XML tag called <Identify> in .qgs, how do I get there? I tried with
> readEntry() and readListEntry() but without success.
>
> Or is there any handy reference of all the project properties and how to
> read them by the API?

The answer depends which QGIS version you're targetting. Are you
developing for 2.x or 3.0?

Nyall