Class: QgsLayoutSerializableObject

class qgis.core.QgsLayoutSerializableObject

Bases: QgsLayoutUndoObjectInterface

An interface for layout objects which can be stored and read from DOM elements.

New in version 3.0:

Methods

createCommand

param text

layout

Returns the layout the object belongs to.

readXml

Sets the objects's state from a DOM element.

stringType

Returns the object type as a string.

writeXml

Stores the objects's state in a DOM element.

createCommand(self, text: str, id: int, parent: QUndoCommand = None) QgsAbstractLayoutUndoCommand
Parameters
  • text (str) –

  • id (int) –

  • parent (QUndoCommand = None) –

Return type

QgsAbstractLayoutUndoCommand

layout(self) QgsLayout

Returns the layout the object belongs to.

Return type

QgsLayout

readXml(self, element: QDomElement, document: QDomDocument, context: QgsReadWriteContext) bool

Sets the objects’s state from a DOM element. element is the DOM node corresponding to the object.

See also

writeXml()

Parameters
Return type

bool

stringType(self) str

Returns the object type as a string.

This string must be a unique, single word, character only representation of the item type, eg “LayoutScaleBar”

Return type

str

writeXml(self, parentElement: QDomElement, document: QDomDocument, context: QgsReadWriteContext) bool

Stores the objects’s state in a DOM element. The parentElement should refer to the parent layout’s DOM element.

See also

readXml()

Parameters
  • parentElement (QDomElement) –

  • document (QDomDocument) –

  • context (QgsReadWriteContext) –

Return type

bool