[QGIS-Developer] Difficulties with custom bad layer handler in plugin code

[Raymond Nijssen]

> 
> So what you would do here is implement a custom pre-processor which
> detects some hardcoded path to the plugin resource, and swaps it out
> with the actual path to the python plugin. E.g.
> 
> def my_processor(path):
>     if path.endswith('my_plugins_super_north_arrow.svg'):
>        return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
> 'resources/my_plugins_super_north_arrow.svg')
>     return path
> 
> QgsPathResolver.setPathPreprocessor(my_processor)
> 
> Basically - whenever a path ending in
> 'my_plugins_super_north_arrow.svg' is requested, it gets (silently)
> modified to point to a subfolder off your plugin's actual runtime
> location. You'd just need to make sure the intercepted resources have
> a distinct enough name to not clash with other (non-plugin) paths!
> (e.g. don't just check for "north_arrow.svg"!).
> 
> 
> Nyall
> 
> 

Thanks Nyall!

That sounds exactly what would work for us. I guess we could use a very 
unique subdirectory name for storing all the not so unique files and 
find them that way.

For "normal" users this will be available from 3.10 right?

Kind regards,
Raymond