Showing attribute table in form using PyQGIS

Question

Is there any way to show the attribute table of a layer in a QTextBrowser or a QTableView on form?

I did this but, (shows attribute table in a separate dialog) I have no idea, how to show it in my form.

iface.showAttributeTable(iface.activeLayer)

Answer 1

QGIS 2.2 has a table model that you can use for a QTableView. Use it like this:

cache = QgsVectorLayerCache(layer, 10000)
model = QgsAttributeTableModel(cache)
model.loadLayer()
table = QTableView()
table.setModel(model)

• Dil: Thank You for the answer. I tried this but it shows nothing. I'm very new to qgis and python,so I don't know what should I do to show the attribute table in my QTableView. Please help me to do it.
• Barbarossa: QGIS 2.16 crashes when trying to apply this to a plugin tableview. But it only crashes when I try to use .show()

Answer 2

I am using a button to get current layers from canvas in my qgis2leaf plugin like this:

canvas = qgis.utils.iface.mapCanvas()
 allLayers = canvas.layers()
 for i in allLayers:
 if i.type() == 2:
 print(i.name() + " skipped as it is not a vector layer nor a raster layer") 
 if i.type() < 2: 
 self.ui.listWidget.addItem(i.name())

what you can do: do another loop over the layer and get all attributes. with

attributes = i.getFeatures()

and print them in another listwidget in your GUI.

• Nathan W: The user wants to show the attribute table in their form not a list layers or features.