[Qgis-psc] [QGIS-Developer] (QGIS 2020 Grant Report) Port DB Manager Table Management Functionalities to Browser (part 2)

Tim Sutton tim at kartoza.com
Tue Sep 29 12:01:44 PDT 2020


Ah wow that is such nice work, thank you for this Ale!

Regards

Tim

On Tue, 29 Sep 2020, 08:14 Alessandro Pasotti, <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is the final report about the implementation of the QEP
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/171
>
> The QGIS browser now exposes a new "Fields" item for vector layers
> that can be expanded to show the underlying fields, an icon identifies
> the base field type.
>
> A context menu is available at the fields root level and allows you to
> create a new field.
> A context menu is available at the individual fields level and allows
> you to delete the selected field.
>
> At the connection level a new context menu item is available and
> allows you to create a new table for all DB connections that support
> the Connections API:
> - PG
> - Spatialite
> - GPKG
> - MSSQL
>
> All the new functions are implemented using the new connections API
> and exposed to Python for plugins/scripts.
>
> There have been many other small improvements in the API and in the
> browser as part of this work such as homogenization of the
> error/warning/success reporting (now using the message bar if
> available and falling back to a dialog if it is not available) and new
> context menu entries.
>
> The following functions are now available in the browser tree using a
> common abstraction API:
>
> - create a new schema
> - delete a schema
> - rename a schema
> - create a new table/layer
> - rename table/layer
> - delete a table/layer
> - truncate a table/layer
> - refresh a materialized view
> - list fields for a table/view
> - add a new field
> - delete a field
>
> Thank you to the QGIS project and to all QGIS sponsors and donors that
> made this possible, a special thank goes to Nyall Dawson who helped in
> the design of the API and reviewed the code.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> --
> Alessandro Pasotti
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