Open QGIS prococessing algorithm dialog with Python

Question

I would like to programmatically show a processing algorithm dialog from Python. I gived a look to processing toolbox and I found that this is possible importing and instantiating the class AlgorithmDialog gui/processingToolbox.py

from processing.gui.AlgorithmDialog import AlgorithmDialog
from qgis.core import QgsApplication
alg = QgsApplication.processingRegistry().algorithmById('qgis:extractbyattribute')
dlg = AlgorithmDialog(alg, False, iface.mainWindow())
dlg.show()
dlg.exec_()

This opens algorithm dialog and let me perform processing computations but once closed the dialog window QGIS become unstable and crash without any message interacting with the user interface.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a method to do this in other way?

Answer 1

You have another function for doing this:

from processing import execAlgorithmDialog
params = {} # A dictionary to load some default value in the dialog
execAlgorithmDialog('qgis:extractbyattribute', params)

• Enrico Ferreguti: Great. Very handy solution.
• Enrico Ferreguti: the method returns the results dict so you can perform further action like styling renaming etc.. 'results = execAlgorithmDialog('qgis:extractbyattribute', params)'