Class: QgsProcessingParameterMultipleLayers

class qgis.core.QgsProcessingParameterMultipleLayers(name: str, description: str = '', layerType: QgsProcessing.SourceType = QgsProcessing.TypeVectorAnyGeometry, defaultValue: Any = None, optional: bool = False)

Bases: QgsProcessingParameterDefinition

Constructor for QgsProcessingParameterMultipleLayers.

QgsProcessingParameterMultipleLayers(QgsProcessingParameterMultipleLayers)

A parameter for processing algorithms which accepts multiple map layers.

New in version 3.0.

Parameters
  • name (str) –

  • description (str = '') –

  • layerType (QgsProcessing.SourceType = QgsProcessing.TypeVectorAnyGeometry) –

  • defaultValue (Any = None) –

  • optional

asScriptCode(self) → str
Return type

str

checkValueIsAcceptable(self, input: Any, context: QgsProcessingContext = None) → bool
Parameters
Return type

bool

clone(self) → QgsProcessingParameterDefinition
Return type

QgsProcessingParameterDefinition

fromScriptCode(name: str, description: str, isOptional: bool, definition: str) → QgsProcessingParameterMultipleLayers

Creates a new parameter using the definition from a script code.

Parameters
  • name (str) –

  • description (str) –

  • isOptional (bool) –

  • definition (str) –

Return type

QgsProcessingParameterMultipleLayers

fromVariantMap(self, map: Dict[str, Any]) → bool
Parameters

map (Dict[str) –

Return type

bool

layerType(self) → QgsProcessing.SourceType

Returns the layer type for layers acceptable by the parameter.

See also

setLayerType()

Return type

QgsProcessing.SourceType

minimumNumberInputs(self) → int

Returns the minimum number of layers required for the parameter. If the return value is < 1 then the parameter accepts any number of layers.

Return type

int

setLayerType(self, type: QgsProcessing.SourceType)

Sets the layer type for layers acceptable by the parameter.

See also

layerType()

Parameters

type (QgsProcessing.SourceType) –

setMinimumNumberInputs(self, minimum: int)

Sets the minimum number of layers required for the parameter. The minimum must be >= 1 if the parameter is not optional.

Parameters

minimum (int) –

toVariantMap(self) → Dict[str, Any]
Return type

Dict[str, Any]

type(self) → str
Return type

str

typeName() → str

Returns the type name for the parameter class.

Return type

str

valueAsPythonString(self, value: Any, context: QgsProcessingContext) → str
Parameters
Return type

str