Class: QgsPluginLayerRegistry¶

A registry of plugin layers types.

QgsPluginLayerRegistry is not usually directly created, but rather accessed through QgsApplication.pluginLayerRegistry().

Methods

`addPluginLayerType`	Add plugin layer type (take ownership) and return `True` on success
`createLayer`	Returns new layer if corresponding plugin has been found else returns `None`.
`pluginLayerType`	Returns plugin layer type metadata or `None` if doesn't exist
`pluginLayerTypes`	List all known layer types
`removePluginLayerType`	Remove plugin layer type and return `True` on success

class qgis.core.QgsPluginLayerRegistry[source]¶

Bases: object

addPluginLayerType(self, pluginLayerType: QgsPluginLayerType | None) → bool[source]¶

Add plugin layer type (take ownership) and return True on success

createLayer(self, typeName: str | None, uri: str | None = '') → QgsPluginLayer | None[source]¶

Returns new layer if corresponding plugin has been found else returns None.

Note

parameter uri has been added in QGIS 2.10

Parameters:

Return type:

Optional[QgsPluginLayer]

pluginLayerType(self, typeName: str | None) → QgsPluginLayerType | None[source]¶

Returns plugin layer type metadata or None if doesn’t exist

pluginLayerTypes(self) → list[str][source]¶

List all known layer types

removePluginLayerType(self, typeName: str | None) → bool[source]¶

Remove plugin layer type and return True on success