"Unable to load the layer <built-in method name of QgsVectorLayer object at 0x0B8EE3D8>" when d&d from browser to DB manager

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)
Original Redmine Issue: 8488
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:db_manager

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On Windows, not on Linux (apparently).

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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See also http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2013-August/027876.html

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Author Name: Salvatore Larosa (@slarosa)

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I don't know if we can fix this directly from browser code, but it look like if on Windows the shp path is wrong:

@C:\your.shp@

will be converted in:

@C\:/your.shp@

if it is not possible to fix from browser we can fix it using regexp module to remove the backslash.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Fixed in changeset "b9b8a03905e0a0482e05bec99d4f021b1f54644c".

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Salvatore Larosa (@slarosa)

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better solution, but the fix seems incomplete :-)

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Salvatore Larosa wrote:

better solution, but the fix seems incomplete :-)

Why? QgsMimeDataUtils does the colon escaping...