[SoC] Week 8: Web API plugin for QGIS Desktop

[Kevin Stadler]

1. What did you get done this week?

Activities split by deliverable/repository:

1.a QGIS plugin (https://gitlab.com/qgisapi/networkapi/commits/master)
- started adding support for processing algorithms (but see block below...)

1.b R package (https://gitlab.com/qgisapi/rqgisapi/commits/master)
- made the various get*Feature functions return attributes as simple
(rather than embedded) data frames
- added automatic conversion of non-string structures passed as POST
request bodies to JSON

1.c documentation and outreach
- continued work on MalariaRisk example notebooks
- improved documentation and wiki/gitlab issues content


2. What do you plan on doing next week?

- finish and publish first example notebook (both Python and R versions)

- synchronise work on adding easy support for map styling from R with mentors

- fix and add further functionality in the plugin and R package as I go along


3. Are you blocked on anything?

I can't seem to manage to import/initialise the processing library
from within the QGIS plugin. Only after manually calling the
initialisation commands from the QGIS Python console the plugin can
import them and execute calls too.