I started to develop my own QGIS plugin today and I was pretty confident when browsing through all the different literature and tutorials available on the web. I started this beginners tutorial and until step 19 everything just worked like a charm! But starting to edit the code was not going to work for me without getting an error. I was trying to include the "Select file output" functionality in the code but I just get all the time the AttributeError:
Couldn't load plugin SaveAttributes due to an error when calling its classFactory() method
AttributeError: SaveAttributes instance has no attribute 'select_output_file'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qgis/utils.py", line 333, in startPlugin
plugins[packageName] = package.classFactory(iface)
File "/home/alexgis/.qgis2/python/plugins/SaveAttributes/__init__.py", line 35, in classFactory
return SaveAttributes(iface)
File "/home/alexgis/.qgis2/python/plugins/SaveAttributes/save_attributes.py", line 73, in __init__
self.dlg.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.select_output_file)
AttributeError: SaveAttributes instance has no attribute 'select_output_file'
Python version: 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]
QGIS version: 2.18.11 Las Palmas, 29548e7
My code does exactly match the tutorials code. I also make shure that all components are up-to-date the double checked the folder directory and of course the line indentation. I also followed the advice given in this QGIS bug report, but nothing seems to help.
This is my first time developing a QGIS plugin and I have to admit that I found it quite challenging without knowing the appropriate QT or Core functions by heart, but I really want to learn this, so I do not want to give up in this early stage. I browsed through all the other questions regarding the Attribute Error and tried a lot of workarounds but I still get the same error.
I am working in a OSGeoLive 11.0 Environment.
I am really looking forward to your help and hope that I ask this question in the right way to fit into this board.
Code as an attachment:
from PyQt4.QtCore import QSettings, QTranslator, qVersion, QCoreApplication
from PyQt4.QtGui import QAction, QIcon, QFileDialog
# Initialize Qt resources from file resources.py
import resources
# Import the code for the dialog
from save_attributes_dialog import SaveAttributesDialog
import os.path
class SaveAttributes:
"""QGIS Plugin Implementation."""
def __init__(self, iface):
"""Constructor.
:param iface: An interface instance that will be passed to this class
which provides the hook by which you can manipulate the QGIS
application at run time.
:type iface: QgsInterface
"""
# Save reference to the QGIS interface
self.iface = iface
# initialize plugin directory
self.plugin_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
# initialize locale
locale = QSettings().value('locale/userLocale')[0:2]
locale_path = os.path.join(
self.plugin_dir,
'i18n',
'SaveAttributes_{}.qm'.format(locale))
if os.path.exists(locale_path):
self.translator = QTranslator()
self.translator.load(locale_path)
if qVersion() > '4.3.3':
QCoreApplication.installTranslator(self.translator)
# Create the dialog (after translation) and keep reference
self.dlg = SaveAttributesDialog()
# Declare instance attributes
self.actions = []
self.menu = self.tr(u'&Save Attributes')
# TODO: We are going to let the user set this up in a future iteration
self.toolbar = self.iface.addToolBar(u'SaveAttributes')
self.toolbar.setObjectName(u'SaveAttributes')
self.dlg.lineEdit.clear()
self.dlg.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.select_output_file)
# noinspection PyMethodMayBeStatic
def tr(self, message):
"""Get the translation for a string using Qt translation API.
We implement this ourselves since we do not inherit QObject.
:param message: String for translation.
:type message: str, QString
:returns: Translated version of message.
:rtype: QString
"""
# noinspection PyTypeChecker,PyArgumentList,PyCallByClass
return QCoreApplication.translate('SaveAttributes', message)
def add_action(
self,
icon_path,
text,
callback,
enabled_flag=True,
add_to_menu=True,
add_to_toolbar=True,
status_tip=None,
whats_this=None,
parent=None):
"""Add a toolbar icon to the toolbar.
:param icon_path: Path to the icon for this action. Can be a resource
path (e.g. ':/plugins/foo/bar.png') or a normal file system path.
:type icon_path: str
:param text: Text that should be shown in menu items for this action.
:type text: str
:param callback: Function to be called when the action is triggered.
:type callback: function
:param enabled_flag: A flag indicating if the action should be enabled
by default. Defaults to True.
:type enabled_flag: bool
:param add_to_menu: Flag indicating whether the action should also
be added to the menu. Defaults to True.
:type add_to_menu: bool
:param add_to_toolbar: Flag indicating whether the action should also
be added to the toolbar. Defaults to True.
:type add_to_toolbar: bool
:param status_tip: Optional text to show in a popup when mouse pointer
hovers over the action.
:type status_tip: str
:param parent: Parent widget for the new action. Defaults None.
:type parent: QWidget
:param whats_this: Optional text to show in the status bar when the
mouse pointer hovers over the action.
:returns: The action that was created. Note that the action is also
added to self.actions list.
:rtype: QAction
"""
icon = QIcon(icon_path)
action = QAction(icon, text, parent)
action.triggered.connect(callback)
action.setEnabled(enabled_flag)
if status_tip is not None:
action.setStatusTip(status_tip)
if whats_this is not None:
action.setWhatsThis(whats_this)
if add_to_toolbar:
self.toolbar.addAction(action)
if add_to_menu:
self.iface.addPluginToVectorMenu(
self.menu,
action)
self.actions.append(action)
return action
def initGui(self):
"""Create the menu entries and toolbar icons inside the QGIS GUI."""
icon_path = ':/plugins/SaveAttributes/icon.png'
self.add_action(
icon_path,
text=self.tr(u'Save Attributes'),
callback=self.run,
parent=self.iface.mainWindow())
def unload(self):
"""Removes the plugin menu item and icon from QGIS GUI."""
for action in self.actions:
self.iface.removePluginVectorMenu(
self.tr(u'&Save Attributes'),
action)
self.iface.removeToolBarIcon(action)
# remove the toolbar
del self.toolbar
def select_output_file(self):
filename = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(self.dlg, "Select output file ","", '*.txt')
self.dlg.lineEdit.setText(filename)
def run(self):
"""Run method that performs all the real work"""
# show the dialog
self.dlg.show()
# Run the dialog event loop
result = self.dlg.exec_()
# See if OK was pressed
if result:
# Do something useful here - delete the line containing pass and
# substitute with your code.
pass
