[Qgis-developer] SIP API Update merged. Attention plugin authors

[Nathan Woodrow]

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl> wrote:

> Actually no breaking change happened now, there would be just MUCH more
> switches (assuming that e.g. each formerly QString-type variable may be
> either
> QString or unicode). So in the simplest plugins you can still use them and
> make the plugin dual-API-compatible. Just remember to explicitly set both
> qgisMinimumVersion and qgisMaximumVersion, otherwise QGIS assumes
> qgisMaximumVersion at 1.9
>

Technically this can be done for smaller plugins like Borys said.
 Something like:

import sip
if sip.getapi("QVariant") > 1:
    # Use the new API style
else:
    # Use the old API style

Unless you have a small amount of code, say a small script, I would avoid
this because you would have to do it around every method that returns
QString or QVariant, which would not be nice and make your life harder.

- Nathan
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