[Qgis-developer] SIP API Update

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey all,

There is currently a issue in the new sip branch with calling
QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayers() making QGIS crash. I know
where the issue is and will try to fix it ASAP.

If anyone knows sip and can lend a hand that would be great. The crash
is in conversions.sip QMap<TYPE, TYPE*>.

Sent from some fancy phone looking thingo
From: Matthias Kuhn
Sent: 30/05/2013 7:10 PM
To: Sandro Santilli
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; Nathan Woodrow
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] SIP API Update
On Don 30 Mai 2013 11:04:18 CEST, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:12:15PM +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
>
>> If you are not aware of what benefits the SIP API update will bring here is
>> a quick example:
>>
>> Before:
>>
>>>>> str(yourlineedit.text().toString())
>> 'Hello World'
>>>>> feature["column"].toInt()[0]
>> 100
>>
>> After
>>
>>>>> yourlineedit.text()
>> 'Hello World'
>>>>> feature["column"]
>> 1000
>>
>> It will make life for us and plugin authors a hell of a lot easier.
>
> Plugin authors want to maintain support for multiple qgis versions,
> so changing an API is really only _more_ work, not _less_.
>
> Is there any facility to deal with that ?

There is this link from Marco Bernasocchi:

http://spyder-ide.blogspot.ch/2011/06/pyqt-api-1-pyqt-api-2-and-pyside.html

This abstraction layer along with another one for the vector layer API
changes would make a nice little help for developers targetting
multiple versions.

Matthias