[Qgis-developer] API Break in 2.16 for QgsComposition

[Nyall Dawson]

On 15 July 2016 at 03:40, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
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> Hi All
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> It seems like something broke in QgsComposition (in 2.16 and master) - we have some code like this:
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> logo = self.composition.getComposerItemById('logo')
> logo.setPicturePath(self.logo_path)
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> Which fails saying that QgsCompositionItem has no method setPicturePath. This used to work fine in 2.14 - has anyone else encountered this? I know we are breaking API post 2.16 but it would be great if this still behaved right - or if someone could indicate the preferred way to do this now?

Is this specific to composer items? Or does all sip casting fail? (ie,
try retrieving a symbol layer from a renderer... is it correctly cast
to QgsSimpleFillLayerV2/etc or just left at the generic
QgsSymbolLayerV2?)

Nyall

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