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Development of mcda-plugin plugin

This project uses qgis_plugin_tools submodule, so set git setting value: git config --global submodule.recurse true.

When cloning use --recurse-submodules like so: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/GispoCoding/mcda-plugin.git

When pulling from existing repo:

git submodule init
git submodule update

The code for the plugin is in the mcda folder. Make sure you have required tools, such as Qt with Qt Editor and Qt Linquist installed by following this tutorial.

For building the plugin use platform independent build.py script.

Setting up development environment

To get started with the development, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the mcda directory with a terminal
  2. Create a new Python virtual environment with pre-commit using Python aware of QGIS libraries: 
     python build.py venv
    In Windows it would be best to use python-qgis.bat or python-qgis-ltr.bat: 
     C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\python-qgis.bat build.py venv
  3. Note: This part is only for developers that are using QGIS < 3.16.8. If you want to use IDE for development, it is best to start it with the following way on Windows: 
     :: Check out the arguments with python build.py start_ide -h
 set QGIS_DEV_IDE=<path-to-your-ide.exe>
 set QGIS_DEV_OSGEO4W_ROOT=C:\OSGeo4W64
 set QGIS_DEV_PREFIX_PATH=C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\qgis-ltr
 C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\python-qgis.bat build.py start_ide
 :: If you want to create a bat script for starting the ide, you can do it with:
 C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\python-qgis.bat build.py start_ide --save_to_disk

Now the development environment should be all-set.

If you want to edit or disable some quite strict pre-commit scripts, edit .pre-commit-config.yaml. For example to disable typing, remove mypy hook and flake8-annotations from the file.

Keeping dependencies up to date

  1. Activate the virtual environment.
  2. pip install pip-tools
  3. pip-compile --upgrade requirements-dev.in
  4. pip install -r requirements-dev.txt or pip-sync requirements-dev.txt

Adding or editing source files

If you create or edit source files make sure that:

  • they contain absolute imports:

    from mcda.utils.exceptions import TestException # Good

from ..utils.exceptions import TestException # Bad

  • they will be found by build.py script (py_files and ui_files values)

  • you consider adding test files for the new functionality

Deployment

Edit build.py to contain working values for profile, lrelease and pyrcc. If you are running on Windows, make sure the value QGIS_INSTALLATION_DIR points to right folder

Run the deployment with:

python build.py deploy

After deploying and restarting QGIS you should see the plugin in the QGIS installed plugins where you have to activate it.

Testing

Install python packages listed in requirements-dev.txt to the virtual environment and run tests with:

pytest

Translating

Translating with Transifex

Fill in transifex_coordinator (Transifex username) and transifex_organization in .qgis-plugin-ci to use Transifex translation.

If you want to see the translations during development, add i18n to the extra_dirs in build.py:

extra_dirs = ["resources", "i18n"]

Pushing / creating new translations

For step-by-step instructions, read the translation tutorial.

  • First, install Transifex CLI and qgis-plugin-ci
  • Make sure command pylupdate5 works. Otherwise install it with pip install pyqt5
  • Run qgis-plugin-ci push-translation <your-transifex-token>
  • Go to your Transifex site, add some languages and start translating
  • Copy push_translations.yml file to workflows folder to enable automatic pushing after commits to master
  • Add this badge to the README
Pulling

There is no need to pull if you configure --transifex-token into your release workflow (remember to use Github Secrets). Remember to uncomment the lrelease section as well. You can however pull manually to test the process.

  • Run qgis-plugin-ci pull-translation --compile <your-transifex-token>#### Translating with QT Linguistic (if Transifex not available)

The translation files are in i18n folder. Translatable content in python files is code such as tr(u"Hello World").

To update language .ts files to contain newest lines to translate, run

python build.py transup

You can then open the .ts files you wish to translate with Qt Linguist and make the changes.

Compile the translations to .qm files with:

python build.py transcompile

Github Release

Follow these steps to create a release

  • Add changelog information to CHANGELOG.md using this format
  • Make a new commit. (git add -A && git commit -m "Release 0.1.0")
  • Create new tag for it (git tag -a 0.1.0 -m "Version 0.1.0")
  • Push tag to Github using git push --follow-tags
  • Create Github release
  • qgis-plugin-ci adds release zip automatically as an asset

Modify release workflow according to its comments if you want to upload the plugin to QGIS plugin repository.

Local release

For local release install qgis-plugin-ci (possibly to different venv to avoid Qt related problems on some environments) and follow these steps:

cd mcda-plugin
qgis-plugin-ci package --disable-submodule-update 0.1.0