Although there are some posts on this matter, there is no answer in any one of them. This is why I am asking it again.
One post I found was https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/68032/raster-layer-invalid
I read information from the following link: https://hub.qgis.org/wiki/17/Arcgis_rest
I used the command:
gdal_translate "http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true" s.xml -of WMS
And it generated the file successfully. However, when I try to open the file and assuming the provider is WMS, the code report layer is invalid.
The code I used is:
file = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(self,
"Open WMS", ".", "WMS (*.xml)")
fileInfo = QFileInfo(file)
# Add the layer
layer = QgsRasterLayer(file, fileInfo.fileName(),"wms")
if not layer.isValid():
print "Failed to load."
return
I just choose the file from the dialog box.
I also tried the other command:
qgis.utils.iface.addRasterLayer("http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true","raster")
by using the following code:
layer = QgsRasterLayer("http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true", "layer")
if not layer.isValid():
print "Failed to load."
return
It also report "Failed to load". The original command can be run successfully in QGIS python command line. Also, if I try to enter the code in python console, the layer.isValid() would return true. It is just not working in standalone script.
