Subgroup: Transaction

Class: QgsTransaction

class qgis.core.QgsTransaction

Bases: PyQt5.QtCore.QObject

This class allows including a set of layers in a database-side transaction, provided the layer data providers support transactions and are compatible with each other.

Only layers which are not in edit mode can be included in a transaction, and all layers need to be in read-only mode for a transaction to be committed or rolled back.

Layers can only be included in one transaction at a time.

When editing layers which are part of a transaction group, all changes are sent directly to the data provider (bypassing the undo/redo stack), and the changes can either be committed or rolled back on the database side via the QgsTransaction.commit and QgsTransaction.rollback methods.

As long as the transaction is active, the state of all layer features reflects the current state in the transaction.

Edits on features can get rejected if another conflicting transaction is active.

Methods

addLayer Add the layer to the transaction.
begin Begin transaction The statementTimeout (in seconds) specifies how long an sql statement is allowed to block QGIS before it is aborted.
commit Commit transaction.
create Create a transaction for the specified connection string connString and provider with providerKey.
createSavepoint creates a save point returns empty string on error returns the last created savepoint if it’s not dirty
dirtyLastSavePoint dirty save point such that next call to createSavepoint will create a new one
executeSql Execute the sql string.
lastSavePointIsDirty returns the last created savepoint
rollback Roll back transaction.
rollbackToSavepoint rollback to save point, the save point is maintained and is “undertied”
savePoints returns savepoints
supportsTransaction Checks if the provider of a given layer supports transactions.

Signals

afterRollback Emitted after a rollback [signal]
dirtied Emitted if a sql query is executed and the underlying data is modified [signal]

Attributes

addLayer(self, layer: QgsVectorLayer) → bool

Add the layer to the transaction. The layer must not be in edit mode and the connection string must match.

afterRollback

Emitted after a rollback [signal]

begin(self, statementTimeout: int = 20) → Tuple[bool, str]

Begin transaction The statementTimeout (in seconds) specifies how long an sql statement is allowed to block QGIS before it is aborted. Statements can block, if multiple transactions are active and a statement would produce a conflicting state. In these cases, the statements block until the conflicting transaction is committed or rolled back. Some providers might not honour the statement timeout.

commit(self) → Tuple[bool, str]

Commit transaction.

create(connString: str, providerKey: str) → QgsTransaction

Create a transaction for the specified connection string connString and provider with providerKey.

create(layers: object) -> QgsTransaction Create a transaction which includes the layers. All layers are expected to have the same connection string and data provider.

createSavepoint(self) → Tuple[str, str]

creates a save point returns empty string on error returns the last created savepoint if it’s not dirty

New in version 3.0.

createSavepoint(self, savePointId: str) -> Tuple[str, str] creates a save point returns empty string on error

New in version 3.0.

dirtied

Emitted if a sql query is executed and the underlying data is modified [signal]

dirtyLastSavePoint(self)

dirty save point such that next call to createSavepoint will create a new one

New in version 3.0.

executeSql(self, sql: str, isDirty: bool = False, name: str = '') → Tuple[bool, str]

Execute the sql string.

Parameters:
  • sql – The sql query to execute
  • error – The error message
  • isDirty – Flag to indicate if the underlying data will be modified
  • name – Name of the transaction ( only used if isDirty is true)
Returns:

true if everything is OK, false otherwise

lastSavePointIsDirty(self) → bool

returns the last created savepoint

New in version 3.0.

rollback(self) → Tuple[bool, str]

Roll back transaction.

rollbackToSavepoint(self, name: str) → Tuple[bool, str]

rollback to save point, the save point is maintained and is “undertied”

New in version 3.0.

savePoints(self) → List[str]

returns savepoints

New in version 3.0.

supportsTransaction(layer: QgsVectorLayer) → bool

Checks if the provider of a given layer supports transactions.