[Qgis-user] Calling WMS 'Plugin' from a CSW plugin...

[Sampson, David]

C Headers are scary (smile)... Will avoid at all costs. I'm a geo geek, not a genius....

I am sweating bullets enough with getting my brain wrapped around QT, pyqt and qgis API...

If moving things to the gui end of things means I can achieve this goal then I am in full support. I don't want to write a new WMS plugin if I can reuse existing ones. 

Perhaps other people would want to call the tool.

I will want to do the same with the WFS plugin eventualy and also tie into a georss plugin I have collecting dust. All about code reuse.

The plugin is coming along, I hear there are others interested in CSW and QGIS... We'll see where things progress. Right now it is a professional development project for working with specs (same with georss plugin).

Cheers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugentobler Marco [mailto:marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:35
> To: Sampson, David; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: AW: [Qgis-user] Calling WMS 'Plugin' from a CSW plugin...
> 
> Hi David
> 
> It is possible to add/remove entries in the WMS connection 
> list from plugins by using QSettings. Have a look at 
> qgsserversourceselect.cpp/h and qgsnewhttpconnection.cpp/h to 
> see how it is done.
> 
> However, it is not possible to pop up the WMS dialog from 
> plugin, because QgsServerSourceSelect / QgsNewHttpConnection 
> are in the app module and not exposed to plugins. So the 
> sound solution would be to move qgsserversourceselect.cpp/h 
> and qgsnewhttpconnection.cpp/h from the app to the gui module. 
> 
> The quick and dirty solution would be that you copy those two 
> classes to your plugin (but that only works for C++ plugins, 
> e.g. is done for WFS with qgsnewhttpconnection).
> 
> Are there any objections if we move QgsServerSourceSelect / 
> QgsNewHttpConnection to gui? 
> QgsNewHttpConnection is also used by WFS (and my OGC SOS 
> plugin in progress), so I have no doubts about this class. 
> QgsServerSourceSelect might still be usefull for third party apps.
> 
> And of course we are interested to hear about progresses with 
> the CSW plugin :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org im Auftrag von Sampson, David
> Gesendet: Mi 03.06.2009 15:22
> An: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Betreff: [Qgis-user] Calling WMS 'Plugin' from a CSW plugin...
>  
> Hey Folks,
> 
> I am working on a plugin that wants to take the result and 
> pass it to other plugins.
> 
> One plugin is the WMS tool... OK it may no longer be a plugin 
> but that is how I am considering it.
> 
> I am playing with the OGC CSW spec to make a CSW client for 
> inside QGIS...
> 
> What I want to do is this. From a python plugin I want to
> 
> 1. Create a new WMS server connection by passing a name and 
> url combo to the WMS tool 2. have the dialog pop up with the 
> new server connection populated and layers displayed.
> 
> That way all the user needs to do is choose the layers they 
> wish to add and then click ADD.
> 
> This is in the hopes the CSW client can exploit other service 
> specific tools/plugins.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> P.S I assume this is a user question and not a developer 
> question as this is dealing with scripts and not QGIS core.
> 
> Cheers
> 
>