[Qgis-developer] URI

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Radim

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some possible solutions:
> 1) minimal:
>  - add WMS additional params somehow to URI + parsing in WMS provider
> (it is not clear to me why it was not done this way when WMS was
> implemented)
>  - encode / decode provider key + uri as single string only for drag and drop
> 2) maximal A:
>  - use QUrl for all providers with providers key as scheme
> 3) maximal B:
>  - use modified QgsDataSourceURI (it is not generic, works with set
> of known params only) for all params including provider key

2 or 3 would be my choices with slight preference to 2 since
everything can be encoded into QUrl, so we do not have to
implement/improve custom parsing (as would be necessary in option 3).
For simple creation of URIs we can provide functions that would
generate the QUrl instances easily.


Bye
Martin