Holds data auth method key, description, and associated shared library file information. More...

#include <qgsauthmethodmetadata.h>

Public Member Functions
	QgsAuthMethodMetadata (const QString &key, const QString &description, const QString &library=QString())
	Construct an authentication method metadata container.

virtual	~QgsAuthMethodMetadata ()=default

virtual QgsAuthMethod *	createAuthMethod () const
	Class factory to return a pointer to a newly created QgsDataProvider object.

QString	description () const
	Returns descriptive text for the method.

QString	key () const
	Returns the unique key associated with the method.

QString	library () const
	Returns the library file name.

Detailed Description

Holds data auth method key, description, and associated shared library file information.

The metadata class is used in a lazy load implementation in QgsAuthMethodRegistry. To save memory, auth methods are only actually loaded via QLibrary calls if they're to be used. (Though they're all iteratively loaded once to get their metadata information, and then unloaded when the QgsAuthMethodRegistry is created.) QgsProviderMetadata supplies enough information to be able to later load the associated shared library object.

Note: not available in Python bindings

Definition at line 43 of file qgsauthmethodmetadata.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

◆ QgsAuthMethodMetadata()

QgsAuthMethodMetadata::QgsAuthMethodMetadata	(	const QString &	key,
		const QString &	description,
		const QString &	library = `QString()`
	)

inline

Construct an authentication method metadata container.

Parameters

key	Textual key of the library plugin
description	Description of the library plugin
library	File name of library plugin (empty if the provider is not loaded from a library)

Definition at line 54 of file qgsauthmethodmetadata.h.

◆ ~QgsAuthMethodMetadata()

virtual QgsAuthMethodMetadata::~QgsAuthMethodMetadata ( )

virtualdefault

Member Function Documentation

◆ createAuthMethod()

QgsAuthMethod * QgsAuthMethodMetadata::createAuthMethod ( ) const

virtual

Class factory to return a pointer to a newly created QgsDataProvider object.

Since: QGIS 3.22

Definition at line 39 of file qgsauthmethodmetadata.cpp.

◆ description()

QString QgsAuthMethodMetadata::description ( ) const

Returns descriptive text for the method.

This is used to provide a descriptive list of available data methods.

Definition at line 29 of file qgsauthmethodmetadata.cpp.

◆ key()

QString QgsAuthMethodMetadata::key ( ) const

Returns the unique key associated with the method.

This key string is used for the associative container in QgsAtuhMethodRegistry

Definition at line 24 of file qgsauthmethodmetadata.cpp.

◆ library()

QString QgsAuthMethodMetadata::library ( ) const

Returns the library file name.

This is used to QLibrary calls to load the method.

Definition at line 34 of file qgsauthmethodmetadata.cpp.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

/build/qgis-3.41.0+git20241225+af5edcb665c+99sid/src/core/auth/qgsauthmethodmetadata.h
/build/qgis-3.41.0+git20241225+af5edcb665c+99sid/src/core/auth/qgsauthmethodmetadata.cpp

Public Member Functions