[Qgis-developer] Layer Name and originalName, was: [QGIS-Server] Add a Short Name to layers for OGC Web Services

[Germán Carrillo]

Does anybody have any thought on this?


2016-06-01 10:31 GMT-05:00 Germán Carrillo <carrillo.german at gmail.com>:

> Hi All,
>
> what is the purpose of originalName() method in QgsMapLayer class?
>
> Documentation states:
>    Get the original name of the layer.
>    Returns
>            the original layer name
>
> Which perhaps isn't clear enough.
>
> Plugin developers reading the API would generally expect originalName to
> preserve the name the layer was given when it was first loaded into QGIS.
> And it might be so, except for this line (
> http://qgis.org/api/2.14/qgsmaplayer_8cpp_source.html#l00117) that
> modifies the originalName private variable.
>
> Am I getting it wrong? Is id() supposed to fulfill such requirement?
>
> Regards,
>
> Germán
>
>
> 2015-12-08 6:33 GMT-05:00 René-Luc Dhont <rldhont at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> Le 22/09/2015 13:36, Paolo Cavallini a écrit :
>>
>>> Il 22/09/2015 13:24, Tom Chadwin ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Many apologies - you are right. I change "Layer name", and couldn't
>>>> understand what Display as was meant to be: a non-editable text field
>>>> which
>>>> mirrors Layer name? Why?
>>>>
>>> agreed, an old issue, I also do not understant its use.
>>> all the best.
>>>
>>
>> It's not an issue :-)
>>
>> In QgsMapLayer there are originalName and name.
>> The method setLayerName sets originalName and name.
>> The attribute name is the capitalize originalName if the settings
>> "/qgis/capitaliseLayerName" is set to True.
>>
>> In the Layer properties the originalName and Name are displayed and the
>> originalName is the editable attribute.
>>
>> René-Luc
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