[QGIS-Developer] Custom python expression question

[Matthias Kuhn 🌍]

Actually, there would also be the "context" which gives access to the
@layer variable (a QgsVectorLayer object) and other additional things.

It's just slightly more complex to set up because it's not proxied to
the @qgsfunction.

One will need to subclass QgsExpression.Function as done here:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/python/core/__init__.py#L74-L102

And then register it manually.

I think we should also send this to the @qgsfunction in QGIS 3.

Matthias


On 05/05/2017 12:42 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Hey Andreas,
> 
> Parent means the parent expression itself.  So in a function, you can
> know what the whole expression is e.g it points to the instance of. 
> 
> You can't really know what the layer because expressions are not always
> layer bound and QgsFeatures don't hold a reference to the layer they are
> from.  Best you can do at the moment I think is to pass the layer name
> or id into the custom expressions.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> 
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