in model child algorithms
Prior to this change if you edited an algorithm in a model and
tried to enter a preset string for certain parameter types, this
string would get silently discarded on closing the dialog. E.g.
with a dissolve algorithm it was not possible to have a fixed
field name within the model to dissolve by.
This was caused by WidgetWrapper.comboValue returning the customData
for these manually entered values in the parameters combo box,
yet manually entered values never have custom data.
To work around this we only return the custom data if its
set for the selected item - otherwise we return the text unchanged.
In order to handle the "[not set]" options, a new static custom
data value of WidgetWrapper.NOT_SET_OPTION is added to that
comboValue can detect this and return the appropriate None value.
if they are unique in the current project
Instead of always using the layer id, which is generally
gibberish and meaningless for users, instead prefer to use
the layer name as an input in the batch processing dialog. This
is done only if the name is unique within the current project's
loaded layers.
This change makes the dialog more user-friendly, but more importantly
it means that autofilling output values based on an input layer
parameter generates more meaningful automatic output file names.
Some filters are fast enough to return results that it's overkill
to run them in a background thread - add a flag to these filters
to allow them to run (blocking) in the main thread instead.
- add a clone() method to filters, and always search using the
clone instead of the original filter
- add a prepare() method to filters, which is always run in the
main thread and can be used to prepare the filter for safe
background execution (e.g. creating feature iterators in advance)
- don't use QtConcurrent to perform searches in background threads,
since it is not safe to use with QObjects
- instead manually create threads and ensure that cloned objects
are always moved to the thread that they will run in, to ensure
that they correctly have thread affinity with the thread in which
they are executed
This was a missing capability in the processing API - while algorithms
could declare multiple layer input parameters, there was no corresponding
multi-layer output. This meant that algorithms (such as Package Layers,
Vector Split) which create a set of layers which cannot be determined
in advance had no way to pass these generated layers on for further model
processing steps.
It's also useful for algorithms which operate on a specified folder,
processing all layers found there, and allowing these generated
outputs to be utilised in other model steps (e.g. packaging
all of them, merging them, etc)
Since the underlying issues with the Python bindings are now fixed,
in most cases we can safely default to allowing an algorithm to
run in a background thread!!
So now we make this the default, and require individual algorithms
which are NOT thread safe to declare this. This includes algorithms
which directly manipulate the current project or layers (such as
setting layer styles), alter the selections in layers, or which
rely on 3rd party libraries (for now, SAGA and GRASS algorithms
are marked as not thread safe... TODO - someone more familiar with
these libraries can investigate and remove the flag if appropriate).
Also models are marked as non-thread safe. TODO: only flag an
individual model as thread-unsafe if any of its child algorithms
report this flag.
options should be available for certain model outputs and script
algorithm outputs
We do this by swapping the test for non-file based output support
from checking only the algorithm's provider to instead checking
on a parameter-by-parameter basis.
This is done in order to support models. For models, depending
on what child algorithm a model output is based off, an individual
model may or may not have support for non-file based outputs. E.g
a model may generate outputs from a native qgis alg (supporting
these outputs) AND an output from a GDAL alg (with no support
for these outputs). In this case we need to enable or disable
the ui controls for non-file based outputs on an individual
output basis.
For scripts (for now) we blindly just say all outputs support
non-file based formats. This is going to be the case most of
the time, since scripts will usually be written using PyQGIS
API. For the exceptions (e.g. scripts which call other algs
like GDAL algs) we probably should add some way for the script
to indicate whether an individual output supports this, but
for now we just say they all do.
Fixes#17949
Brings the behaviour into line with the styling dock, where
the action is checkable and checked only when the toolbox
is open AND user visible (i.e. not hidden behind another tab). If
the toolbox is open but hidden, then hitting the Toolbox action
brings it to the front tab.
Otherwise it's often necessary to hit to Toolbox shortcut twice -
once to close a hidden toolbox tab, and a second time to open
and raise it.
