[QGIS-Developer] Writing a driver plugin for a custom vector format

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Have look to https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/tests/src/python/provider_python.py

Hope this helps

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 4:59 PM Martijn Reening via QGIS-Developer
<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> Hi QGIS community,
>
> I am currently working with a custom file format that contains geometry information. The format contains mixed geometry types and some style and meta information.
>
> The geometry is simple to map onto WKT and I have a parser for Python. I would like to integrate this into a QGIS plugin. It seems however that writing drivers for file formats is not really documented in the PyQGIS Developer Cookbook.
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> My questions are therefore:
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> Is it possible to introduce support for a custom file format through a plugin?
> At what level should I integrate this? It seems that most formats are handled through GDAL, which has its own plugin system. I would rather have it installable through the QGIS interface
>
> Are there any examples of similar formats (KML/GML) that are handled this way?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Martijn Reening
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