On 11/10/20 9:31 AM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > one way to integrate a provider in the browser is to implement the > connections API: > https://qgis.org/api/classQgsAbstractDatabaseProviderConnection.html#details > > When it's done, all the generic methods implemented in the browser > will automatically work, see > > QgsDatabaseItemGuiProvider::populateContextMenu > QgsFieldsItemGuiProvider::populateContextMenu > > For a sample implementation you could have a look to the PG provider. > > You may need to subclass the GUI provider in case the base > functionality is not ok, the PG provider does that for some methods > too, so the answer is yes: you need to create a GUI provider for the > provider or you can choose to abstract out the PG provider and create > a base class if you see that there is a common ground for abstraction.
Thanks Alessandro, I had a chat with Julien (Oslandia) and he told me they had some funding to work on the Oracle provider, and that your proposal above was exactly what he was going to do. So: fingers crossed :-) Regards, Richard _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
