[Qgis-developer] documents about writing a provider

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Godofredo,

This is good news! Afaik, nobody works at mysql support at the moment.

>if not, where can I start and what could be better to write a provider
> and a plugin for mysql or develop a plugin that works on top of ogr
> provider?

I would suggest to write a plugin for the gui and use the ogr provider. Just 
because it is much work to write an own provider for mysql. And I hoipe by 
using the ogr provider, it will also be possible to use your plugin to access 
oracle spatial through ogr.

Stephan Holl once wrote a plugin for accessing oracle through ogr. 
http://www.holl-land.de/blog/index.php/2006/12/23/oracle-plugin-for-qgis/

The plugin is probably not up to date with the newest changes in qgis core. 
But it may be a good start point.

And for plugin writing in general, there are the materials of my foss4g2006 
workshop 
(http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=50&sessionId=66&confId=1)

Best regards,
Marco

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:20:58 godofredo contreras wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have a little free time and I want to spend it in something useful, I was
> looking into summer coding ideas and I saw that there are an idea to write
> a plugin for mysql, it sounds interesting. Are there somebody working on
> it? if not, where can I start and what could be better to write a provider
> and a plugin for mysql or develop a plugin that works on top of ogr
> provider?.
>
> Best regards
> Godofredo Contreras
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Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch