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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Bernhard,

All PyQt functions are affected. QSqlQuery.Value will now return a native
Python type.

- Nathan


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Bernhard Ströbl
<bernhard.stroebl at jena.de>wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> bear with me I have a really basic question concerning you mail and advice
> [1]. I use quite a lot of QtSql.QSqlQuerys in my plugins to retrieve data
> from a PostgreSQL database. The value() method currently returns a
> QVariant. What is it supposed to return in the future or are only QGIS
> methods affected by what you describe? In the latter case your advice in
> [1] can be very misleading telling people to remove all toString(), toInt()
> etc.
>
> Bernhard
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/**NathanW2/5734767<https://gist.github.com/NathanW2/5734767>
>
>
> Am 10.06.2013 14:51, schrieb Nathan Woodrow:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> You are
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com
>> <mailto:madmanwoo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey all,
>>
>>     The new SIP API has been merged now.  There are still a few things
>>     to clean up in some of the core plugins but it is merged for wider
>>     testing.   I don't expect to find any major issues.
>>
>>     I have written a conversion guide here:
>>     https://gist.github.com/**NathanW2/5734767<https://gist.github.com/NathanW2/5734767>
>>
>>     Plugin authors could you take some time to update you plugins so
>>     they will be ready for 2.0 once it is released _however_ please
>>     don't upload the new 2.0 version of your new plugin to the QGIS
>>     plugin repo until I give you the go ahead as we need to do a update
>>     on the server so that 1.8 will not get the 2.0 plugins because they
>>     will not run in 1.8.
>>
>>     I would recommend creating a branch in git with your new 2.0 version
>>     and be ready to upload it when I give the go ahead.
>>
>>     Note: 1.8 plugins will not run in 2.0 without being updated to the
>>     new API syntax. 2.0 plugins will not work in 1.8.
>>
>>     Users who live on the edge by running the dev build please just bare
>>     with us while we get this sorted out, shouldn't take too long.
>>
>>     Email me if you have any issue.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Nathan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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