Django provider for QGIS

This is currently proof of concept / work in progress!

Django Web framework vector data provider for QGIS

Supported capabilities:

SelectAtId (It means that editing is not yet supported)

Supported Django field types:

BooleanField
NullBooleanField
SmallIntegerField
IntegerField
BigIntegerField
FloatField
DecimalField
CharField
TextField
DateField
Time
DateTime

Example in QGIS Python console

Django provider and Django project must be in PYTHONPATH

import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "project.settings")
import django
from djangoprovider import register_django_provider

register_django_provider()
django.setup(set_prefix=False)
layer = QgsVectorLayer('basic.point', 'test', 'django')
QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(layer)

Example in Django view

Simple wms server

from qgis.core import QgsApplication
from qgis.server import QgsServer, QgsBufferServerRequest, QgsBufferServerResponse
from django.http import HttpResponse
from djangoprovider import register_django_provider
# TODO: how to manage QgsApplication?
qgs = QgsApplication([], False)
qgs.initQgis()


def ows_server(request):
    register_django_provider()
    query_string = request.build_absolute_uri() + '&MAP=/path/to/map.qgs'
    qgis_request = QgsBufferServerRequest(query_string)
    qgis_response = QgsBufferServerResponse()
    server = QgsServer()
    server.handleRequest(qgis_request, qgis_response)
    # TODO: missing content type
    return HttpResponse(bytes(qgis_response.body()))

Local server test

There is a small test Django project in test/project. You can run devel server and test QGIS server with Django data.

Ensure that all libs and Python modules are in path. Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH if necessary.
Go to test/project
Run manage.py generate_data, it will generate few points in basic.point model.
Start devel server by manage.py runserver

Now the server should be running and it should be possible to access Django data through QGIS WMS server: