MetaSearch: clean OWS URL when adding from search (http://hub.qgis.org/issues/16261)

Author: tomkralidis

python/plugins/MetaSearch/dialogs/maindialog.py

@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@
 from MetaSearch.dialogs.newconnectiondialog import NewConnectionDialog
 from MetaSearch.dialogs.recorddialog import RecordDialog
 from MetaSearch.dialogs.xmldialog import XMLDialog
-from MetaSearch.util import (get_connections_from_file, get_ui_class,
-                             get_help_url, highlight_xml, normalize_text,
-                             open_url, render_template, serialize_string,
-                             StaticContext)
+from MetaSearch.util import (clean_ows_url, get_connections_from_file,
+                             get_ui_class, get_help_url, highlight_xml,
+                             normalize_text, open_url, render_template,
+                             serialize_string, StaticContext)
 
 BASE_CLASS = get_ui_class('maindialog.ui')
 
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ def add_to_ows(self):
 
         # no dups detected or overwrite is allowed
         self.settings.beginGroup('/Qgis/connections-%s' % stype[1])
-        self.settings.setValue('/%s/url' % sname, data_url)
+        self.settings.setValue('/%s/url' % sname, clean_ows_url(data_url))
         self.settings.endGroup()
 
         # open provider window

python/plugins/MetaSearch/util.py

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 from pygments import highlight
 from pygments.lexers import XmlLexer
 from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
-from PyQt4.QtCore import QSettings
+from PyQt4.QtCore import QSettings, QUrl
 from PyQt4.QtGui import QMessageBox
 from PyQt4.uic import loadUiType
 
@@ -167,3 +167,15 @@ def serialize_string(input_string):
         value = '%s 1' % input_string
 
     return value
+
+
+def clean_ows_url(url):
+    """clean an OWS URL of added basic service parameters"""
+
+    url2 = QUrl(url)
+    url2.removeEncodedQueryItem('service')
+    url2.removeEncodedQueryItem('SERVICE')
+    url2.removeEncodedQueryItem('request')
+    url2.removeEncodedQueryItem('REQUEST')
+
+    return url2.toString()