Class: QgsDataSourceSelectDialog

The QgsDataSourceSelectDialog class embeds the browser view to select an existing data source.

By default any layer type can be chosen, the valid layer type can be restricted by setting a layer type filter with setLayerTypeFilter(layerType) or by activating the filter directly from the constructor.

To retrieve the selected data source, uri() can be called and it will return a (possibly invalid) QgsMimeDataUtils.Uri.

Added in version 3.6.

Class Hierarchy

Base classes

QDialog
QWidget
QObject
QPaintDevice

Methods

expandPath	Expands out a file path in the view.
setCaseSensitive	Sets filter case sensitivity
setDescription	Sets a description label
setFilter	Apply filter to the model
setFilterSyntax	Sets filter syntax
setLayerTypeFilter	Sets layer type filter to layerType and activates the filtering
showFilterWidget	Show/hide filter widget
uri	Returns the (possibly invalid) uri of the selected data source

class qgis.gui.QgsDataSourceSelectDialog

Bases: QDialog

__init__(browserModel: QgsBrowserGuiModel | None = None, setFilterByLayerType: bool = False, layerType: Qgis.LayerType = Qgis.LayerType.Vector, parent: QWidget | None = None)

Constructs a QgsDataSourceSelectDialog, optionally filtering by layer type

Parameters:

• browserModel (Optional[QgsBrowserGuiModel] = None) – an existing browser model (typically from app), if None an instance will be created

• setFilterByLayerType (bool = False) – activates filtering by layer type

• layerType (Qgis.LayerType = Qgis.LayerType.Vector) – sets the layer type filter, this is in effect only if filtering by layer type is also active

• parent (Optional[QWidget] = None) – the object

expandPath(self, path: str | None, selectPath: bool = False)

Expands out a file path in the view.

The path must correspond to a valid directory existing on the file system.

Since QGIS 3.38 the selectPath argument can be used to automatically select the path too.

Added in version 3.28.

Parameters:

• path (Optional[str])

• selectPath (bool = False)

setCaseSensitive(self, caseSensitive: bool)

Sets filter case sensitivity

Parameters:

caseSensitive (bool)

setDescription(self, description: str | None)

Sets a description label

Parameters:

description (Optional[str]) – a description string

Note

the description will be displayed at the bottom of the dialog

Added in version 3.8.

setFilter(self)

Apply filter to the model

setFilterSyntax(self, a0: QAction | None)

Sets filter syntax

Parameters:

a0 (Optional[QAction])

setLayerTypeFilter(self, layerType: Qgis.LayerType)

Sets layer type filter to layerType and activates the filtering

Parameters:

layerType (Qgis.LayerType)

showFilterWidget(self, visible: bool)

Show/hide filter widget

Parameters:

visible (bool)

uri(self) → QgsMimeDataUtils.Uri

Returns the (possibly invalid) uri of the selected data source

Return type:

QgsMimeDataUtils.Uri