[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 2.99 nightly: profiles folder location

[Nathan Woodrow]

>
> Hey,
>



> I get this debug message for a simple PyQGIS script:
> ../../src/core/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cpp: 924: (getRecord) [6ms]
> user qgis.db not found
> Not being familiar with the QGIS codebase it seems to me that there are
> two competing settings:
> - qgisSettingsDirPath() gives me '/home/user/.local/share/profi
> les/default'
> - but https://qgis.org/api/qgsapplication_8cpp_source.html#l00127 checks
> for the environment variable (which is empty on my system) and falls back
> to which is accorrding to http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html
>  "~/.local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/local/share/<APPNAME>",
> "/usr/share/<APPNAME>"
> Indeed I have a qgis.db in  /home/user/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default
> and if I create via the GUI "Settings > Profile > New profile" another one
> it shows up in /home/user/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/ .
> This is is clearly different from what qgisSettingsDirPath() returns.


Yes this looks like a bug to me.  I will take a look.

Regards,
Nathan

On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Christian Prior-Mamulyan <
cprior+qgis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> first post of mine, am a software support engineer without much QGIS
> knowhow but "figure-it-out" drive. Here I have:
>
>
> 1) some kind of a bug report
> 2) request for guidance
>
>
> ad 1)
>
> I have installed (and updated) the nightly build on a clean Ubuntu 16.04
> (container with systemd-nspawn) with these apt sources:
> $  cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.list
> deb http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly xenial main
> deb-src http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly xenial main
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial
> main
>
>
> I get this debug message for a simple PyQGIS script:
> ../../src/core/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cpp: 924: (getRecord) [6ms]
> user qgis.db not found
>
> Not being familiar with the QGIS codebase it seems to me that there are
> two competing settings:
>
> - qgisSettingsDirPath() gives me '/home/user/.local/share/profi
> les/default'
> - but https://qgis.org/api/qgsapplication_8cpp_source.html#l00127 checks
> for the environment variable (which is empty on my system) and falls back
> to which is accorrding to http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html
>  "~/.local/share/<APPNAME>", "/usr/local/share/<APPNAME>",
> "/usr/share/<APPNAME>"
>
> Indeed I have a qgis.db in  /home/user/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default
> and if I create via the GUI "Settings > Profile > New profile" another one
> it shows up in /home/user/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/ .
>
> This is is clearly different from what qgisSettingsDirPath() returns.
>
>
> PyQGIS code to reproduce the debug message "user qgis.db not found":
> In [1]: from qgis.core import *
> In [2]: crs = QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem()
> In [3]: crs.createFromProj4("+proj=ortho +lat_0=20 +lon_0=20 +x_0=0
> +y_0=0 +a=6370997 +b=6370997 +units=m +no_defs")
> ../../src/core/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cpp: 883: (getRecord) [0ms]
> failed : /resources/srs.db does not exist!
> ../../src/core/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cpp: 883: (getRecord) [0ms]
> failed : /resources/srs.db does not exist!
> Out[3]: True
>
>
>
> ad 2)
> Not sure if the above warrants a bug report, or if it is a package problem
> of the xenial ubuntugis-nightly packages. So:
>
> I am looking for guidance in my quest to contribute to the PyQGIS docs.
> Being new to QGIS (I need maps for a mobile app of mine) I would
> appreciate if someone experienced could guide me.
>
> Right now I am
> a) learning PyQGIS
> b) documenting working examples as Python unittest modules in
> https://github.com/cprior/sunlightmap/tree/master/applica
> tion/physical/GIS/qgis3-tests
> (whole repo under MIT, so no effort would be "lost")
>
> Started to poke around on https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/87254/cprior but
> I would be glad to have a speedier onboarding process than looking at
> "badges earned"... ;)
>
> I am willing to spend an hour each weekday for 4-6 weeks and think I could
> contribute something helpful to the PyQGIS docs.
>
>
> BR,
> Christian Prior-Mamulyan
>
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