[Qgis-developer] [QGIS-Processing] Define optional parameters in Script

[René-Luc Dhont]

Hi victor,

Because codes are sometimes better than text, I made a pull-request to 
propose optional parameters in script and model.
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2396

In my code, all parameters can be optional or not required and didn't 
modify the parameters value setter.

I don't know if optional number, string or extent has to be None or 
default value if it is not set by the user.

Reviews are welcome

Regards,
René-Luc

Le 11/09/2015 13:44, Victor Olaya a écrit :
> Aside from the syntax...I am not sure it is a good idea...
>
> I mean, it is a good idea to allow optional parameters...but that is a
> big change in the current semantics of Processing algorithms. Some
> params can be optional (layers, tables), and have a setting for that.
> When they are not used, their value is None, but the value has to be
> passed (so an optional layer param is a layer param that can be None).
> Allowing optional parameters would require some importante changes in
> many places in Processing, specially in the modeler, so i would
> suggest some more discussion about this.
>
> Not sure if that can maybe be added to the WPS plugin part, so nothing
> changes in Processing, but the WPS service exposes the parameters as
> optional and then fills the values with a default one before actually
> callin gprocessing.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> 2015-09-11 11:28 GMT+02:00 kimaidou <kimaidou at gmail.com>:
>> Hi
>>
>> I would personaly use the second : add a new property for each input. If not
>> given, this means the input is mandatory, if "opt" is present, make it
>> optionnal.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michael
>>
>> 2015-08-28 14:53 GMT+02:00 René-Luc Dhont <rldhont at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi Victor,
>>>
>>> I'm working on porting QGIS Processing to Web Processing Service, and I
>>> have found that all parameters in a QGIS Processing script are mandatory.
>>> It would be useful to power define some parameters as optional.
>>>
>>> I think that I can propose some code but I'd like to know what is your
>>> preferred way of defining optional parameters :
>>> * an header line started by 'optional' with a list of parameter name
>>> separated by comma
>>> ##optional=SEGMENTS,DISTANCE
>>> * an extra value at the end of the header line
>>> ##SEGMENTS=number 5 opt
>>>
>>> Thanks
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