[Qgis-developer] Writing a data provider in Python

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

Martin is it possible to write  a provider in python with your bindings?

Regards

Tim

2007/3/15, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:
> I'm working with the 0.9 version and I've been writing python plugins
> happily. One thing I wanted to do was to be able to read excel
> spreadsheets into QGis.
>
> I looked at the delimited text C++ plugin and so I understand the
> fundamentals of a vector data provider, but I can't see how to add a new
> one to the registry. It seems that the registry populates itself at
> startup time, and there's no 'add provider' method of QgsProviderRegistry.
>
> So am I right in thinking that data providers have to be in C++ at the
> moment?
>
> The workaround is to insist that my users export their excel
> spreadsheets as CSV files and then I use the very lovely delimited text
> plugin...
>
> Barry
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