addGroup() never allows adding to the "invisible root" group

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)
Original Redmine Issue: 6879
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:map_legend
Assignee: Sandro Santilli

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The code for addGroup defaults to the so-called "invisible root item" as the parent,
but then refuses to add there because the "invisible root item" is not a group.

This makes it impossible to add a group to the root, basically (from python)

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)

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Fixed in changeset "122cff7859b74b213ba0bdc143850f635d122529".

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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After this commit it is impossible to create groups in empty project or add new group without selecting existing item in legend

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• status_id was changed from Closed to Reopened

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• priority_id was changed from Normal to Severe/Regression

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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maybe somwhow this commit fixed also #16008

if it is going to be reverted please check again also #16008.

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)

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Alex, when I tested this the db_manager plugin (sub-plugin topoviewer) was successfully adding groups to the "invisible root". Are you talking about GUI or python API or what ?

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Sandro Santilli wrote:

Alex, when I tested this the db_manager plugin (sub-plugin topoviewer) was successfully adding groups to the "invisible root". Are you talking about GUI or python API or what ?

GUI (I can confirm the issue)

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Sandro, I tested this from GUI

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)

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Confirmed. I'm on it.

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• assigned_to_id was configured as Sandro Santilli

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)

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Fixed in changeset "816c32bd064f1d8871f194f40bb701c899c5373d".

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• status_id was changed from Reopened to Closed

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)

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there might be another regression, specifically the impossibility to determine where the new group is added (ie: now if you don't select a group item the new group is added to the root, not to the same group of the selected layer).

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Sandro Santilli wrote:

there might be another regression, specifically the impossibility to determine where the new group is added (ie: now if you don't select a group item the new group is added to the root, not to the same group of the selected layer).

if I understand well, yes is a regression, as before selecting a group and creating a new group allowed to have immediately a nested group.

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• status_id was changed from Closed to Reopened

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Author Name: Sandro Santilli (@strk)

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You didn't understand. What you describe is still possible.
Anyway I fixed what I meant with 7344368

Please reopen if anything else is still missing

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• status_id was changed from Reopened to Closed
• resolution was changed from to fixed

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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if I understand well