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QgsProviderMetadata Class Reference

Holds data provider key, description, and associated shared library file information. More...

#include <qgsprovidermetadata.h>

Public Member Functions

 QgsProviderMetadata (const QString &_key, const QString &_description, const QString &_library)
const QString & key () const
 this returns the unique key associated with the provider
const QString & description () const
 this returns descriptive text for the provider
const QString & library () const
 this returns the library file name

Private Attributes

QString key_
 unique key for data provider
QString description_
 associated terse description
QString library_
 file path

Detailed Description

Holds data provider key, description, and associated shared library file information.

The metadata class is used in a lazy load implementation in QgsProviderRegistry. To save memory, data providers are only actually loaded via QLibrary calls if they're to be used. (Though they're all iteratively loaded once to get their metadata information, and then unloaded when the QgsProviderRegistry is created.) QgsProviderMetadata supplies enough information to be able to later load the associated shared library object.

Definition at line 37 of file qgsprovidermetadata.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

QgsProviderMetadata::QgsProviderMetadata ( const QString &  _key,
const QString &  _description,
const QString &  _library 
)

Definition at line 23 of file qgsprovidermetadata.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

QString const & QgsProviderMetadata::description ( ) const

this returns descriptive text for the provider

This is used to provide a descriptive list of available data providers.

Definition at line 36 of file qgsprovidermetadata.cpp.

References description_.

QString const & QgsProviderMetadata::key ( ) const

this returns the unique key associated with the provider

This key string is used for the associative container in QgsProviderRegistry

Definition at line 31 of file qgsprovidermetadata.cpp.

References key_.

QString const & QgsProviderMetadata::library ( ) const

this returns the library file name

This is used to QLibrary calls to load the data provider.

Definition at line 41 of file qgsprovidermetadata.cpp.

References library_.

Referenced by QgsProviderRegistry::library().

Member Data Documentation

QString QgsProviderMetadata::description_
private

associated terse description

Definition at line 67 of file qgsprovidermetadata.h.

Referenced by description().

QString QgsProviderMetadata::key_
private

unique key for data provider

Definition at line 64 of file qgsprovidermetadata.h.

Referenced by key().

QString QgsProviderMetadata::library_
private

file path

Definition at line 70 of file qgsprovidermetadata.h.

Referenced by library().


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