How to change orientation of Qt TableView

Question

Hi I am using a QTableView to display data from a sql table using the qsqltablemodel asfollows:

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    model = new QSqlTableModel(this);
    model->setTable("staging");
    model->select();
    model->setHeaderData(0, Qt::Vertical, tr("ID"));
    model->setHeaderData(1, Qt::Vertical, tr("Region"));
    model->setHeaderData(2, Qt::Vertical, tr("T1"));
    model->setHeaderData(3, Qt::Vertical, tr("N1"));
    model->setHeaderData(4, Qt::Vertical, tr("M1"));

    ui->tableView->setEditTriggers(QAbstractItemView::NoEditTriggers);
    ui->tableView->setModel(model);
    ui->tableView->showRow(1);
    ui->tableView->resizeColumnsToContents();

}

I just want to display the table in such a view that columns are presented as rows and rows as columns. I have searched google etc.. but cannot find any simple solution. There is mention of a proxy model but I am unsure how i can implement that with a QSqltablemodel which does not use a data method in this example, rather a model->select() statement which populate the whole model at once. Any guidance will be appreciated.

Answer 1

class Horizontal_proxy_model : public QAbstractProxyModel {
public:
  Horizontal_proxy_model(QObject * parent = 0);
  QModelIndex mapToSource(const QModelIndex &proxyIndex) const;
  QModelIndex mapFromSource(const QModelIndex &sourceIndex) const;
  QModelIndex index(int row, int column, const QModelIndex &parent = QModelIndex()) const;
  QModelIndex parent(const QModelIndex &child) const;
  int rowCount(const QModelIndex &parent) const;
  int columnCount(const QModelIndex &parent) const;
  QVariant headerData(int section, Qt::Orientation orientation, int role) const;
};

Horizontal_proxy_model::Horizontal_proxy_model(QObject *parent) : 
  QAbstractProxyModel(parent) {
}

QModelIndex Horizontal_proxy_model::mapToSource(const QModelIndex &proxyIndex) const {
  if (sourceModel()) {
    return sourceModel()->index(proxyIndex.column(), proxyIndex.row());
  } else {
    return QModelIndex();
  }
}

QModelIndex Horizontal_proxy_model::mapFromSource(const QModelIndex &sourceIndex) const {
  return index(sourceIndex.column(), sourceIndex.row());
}

QModelIndex Horizontal_proxy_model::index(int row, int column, const QModelIndex &) const {
  return createIndex(row, column, (void*) 0);
}

QModelIndex Horizontal_proxy_model::parent(const QModelIndex &) const {
  return QModelIndex();
}

int Horizontal_proxy_model::rowCount(const QModelIndex &) const {
  return sourceModel() ? sourceModel()->columnCount() : 0;
}

int Horizontal_proxy_model::columnCount(const QModelIndex &) const {
  return sourceModel() ? sourceModel()->rowCount() : 0;
}

QVariant Horizontal_proxy_model::headerData(
           int section, Qt::Orientation orientation, int role) const {
  if (!sourceModel()) { return QVariant(); }
  Qt::Orientation new_orientation = orientation == Qt::Horizontal ? 
      Qt::Vertical : Qt::Horizontal;
  return sourceModel()->headerData(section, new_orientation, role);
}

Usage:

Horizontal_proxy_model* proxy_model = new Horizontal_proxy_model();
proxy_model->setSourceModel(model);
ui->tableView->setModel(proxy_model);

Answer 2

Updated for PyQt5

from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt, QAbstractProxyModel, QModelIndex, QSortFilterProxyModel

class HorizontalProxyModel(QAbstractProxyModel):
    """Rotates model 90 degrees"""

    def __init__(self, src, parent=None):
        super(HorizontalProxyModel, self).__init__(parent)
        self.setSourceModel(src)

    def mapToSource(self, proxyIndex: QModelIndex) -> QModelIndex:
        if self.sourceModel():
            return self.sourceModel().index(proxyIndex.column(), proxyIndex.row())
        else:
            return QModelIndex()

    def mapFromSource(self, sourceIndex: QModelIndex) -> QModelIndex:
        return self.index(sourceIndex.column(), sourceIndex.row())

    def index(self, row: int, column: int, parent: QModelIndex = ...) -> QModelIndex:
        return self.createIndex(row, column)

    def parent(self, child: QModelIndex) -> QModelIndex:
        return QModelIndex()

    def rowCount(self, parent: QModelIndex = ...) -> int:
        return self.sourceModel().columnCount() if self.sourceModel() else 0

    def columnCount(self, parent: QModelIndex = ...) -> int:
        return self.sourceModel().rowCount() if self.sourceModel() else 0

    def headerData(self, section: int, orientation: Qt.Orientation, role: int = ...) -> typing.Any:
        if not self.sourceModel():
            return None
        new_orientation = Qt.Vertical if orientation == Qt.Horizontal else Qt.Horizontal
        return self.sourceModel().headerData(section, new_orientation, role)