[QGIS-Developer] QgsPluginLayer in QGIS3

[G. Allegri]

Thanks Martin. I asked it in general.
I know QMS uses native layers for most (all?) the sources. Actually we
could make without the plugin layer, at least in the first porting.

giovanni

Il 25 ott 2017 12:29 PM, "Martin Dobias" <wonder.sk at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hi Giovanni
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:53 AM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm analyzing QuickMapService to see how much work it would need toport
> it
> > to QGIS 3 (it would a big loss not having it!).
> >
> > The first thing I see is that QgsPluginLayer doesn't offer the draw()
> method
> > anymore. i guess the only way to substitute it is defining a custom
> > QgsMapLayerRenderer and implementing its render() method. Can you confirm
> > this is the only way to do the actual rendering?
>
> Yes that's correct. It is not a big change though - the drawing code
> just moves to a new renderer class.
>
> By the way, the support for XYZ/TMS tile layers within WMS provider
> (since 2.18) should already cover requirements for most of the data
> sources, so the need for a custom plugin layer in QMS is there just
> for layers using a CRS / tiling different from standard Web Mercator.
> The more recent versions of QMS already use the standard raster layer
> for many sources instead of the plugin layer:
> https://github.com/nextgis/quickmapservices/issues/110
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
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