add User Agent, remove empty ee.Initialize(), update ee.Initialize() …

…in the README.md

README.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ee.Authenticate()
 ```python
 import ee
 from ee_plugin import Map
-ee.Initialize()
+ee.Initialize(project="<your google cloud project name with EE registered>")
 
 # Add Earth Engine dataset
 image = ee.Image('USGS/SRTMGL1_003')

__init__.py

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 import site
 import pkg_resources
 
+__version__ = '0.0.7'
+
 def add_ee_dependencies():
     extra_libs_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'extlibs'))
 
@@ -24,7 +26,14 @@ def classFactory(iface):  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
     # load EE python dependencies
     add_ee_dependencies()
 
-    # authenticate and initialize EE
+    # set User Agent for all calls
+    import ee
+    user_agent = f'QGIS_EE/{__version__}'
+    if ee.data.getUserAgent() != user_agent:
+        ee.data.setUserAgent(user_agent)
+
+
+# authenticate and initialize EE
     from . import ee_auth
     ee_auth.authenticate_and_set_project()
 

ee_plugin.py

@@ -162,11 +162,6 @@ def updateLayers(self):
                 print('\nWARNING:\n Map layer saved with older version of EE plugin is detected, backward-compatibility for versions before 0.0.3 is not supported due to changes in EE library, please re-create EE layer by re-running the Python script\n')
                 return
 
-            # needed to load EE objects saved in QGIS projects
-            # TODO: it does not work for init EE in a Google Cloud Project, see #150
-            if not ee.data.is_initialized():
-                ee.Initialize()
-
             ee_object = ee.deserializer.fromJSON(ee_object)
 
             if ee_object_vis is not None: