STAC Catalogs with child catalogs (e.g. Earth Engine STAC) not displaying or raising errors #268
Description
Description:
When adding a STAC catalog that contains only links to child catalogs, such as the Earth Engine STAC catalog, the QGIS STAC plugin does not display any content. There is also no visible error or feedback in the UI or logs.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the QGIS STAC Browser panel.
2. Add this STAC catalog URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/earthengine-stac/catalog/catalog.json
3. Observe that no collections or items appear, and no error is shown.
Expected behavior:
The plugin should either:
• Recursively follow child links to display nested catalogs and collections,
or
• At minimum, show a message indicating that only root-level collections are supported.
Actual behavior:
• Nothing is shown after adding the catalog.
• No feedback is provided to the user.