[Kde-bindings] Qt bindings for Lua: status update

[Ashley Winters]

--- On Sun, 6/22/08, Mauro Iazzi <mauro.iazzi at gmail.com> wrote:

> All these features make the binding quite usable. The
> latest snapshot
> can be downloaded from
> http://repo.or.cz/w/lqt.git
> Simple build instructions are included.
> 
> Possible future improvements, apart from polishing and
> documenting the
> code, may be generating SWIG or tolua++ interface files, so
> that the
> binding rely on frameworks that are more stable and clean
> than the
> current one.
> 
> I hope someone is interested, comments and feedback are
> obviously welcome.
> Cheers,
> 
> mauro

Mauro,

Very interesting work. It wasn't quite well-formed XML out of the box -- there were errors about unescaped ampersands. I had to fix it for operator& and reference types. Patch included below.

- Ashley Winters

--- cpptoxml/main.cpp.orig   2008-06-03 07:49:10.000000000 -0500
+++ cpptoxml/main.cpp 2008-06-22 21:20:38.000000000 -0500
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
	//if (oldt!=tt.toString()) qDebug() << oldt << " -> " << tt.toString();

	QString ret(" type_name=\"");
-	ret += tt.toString().append("\"");
+	ret += tt.toString().replace('&', "&").append("\"");
	ret += " type_base=\"";
	ret += tt.qualifiedName().join("::").append("\"");
	if (tt.isConstant()) ret += ATTR_TRUE("type_constant");
@@ -182,16 +182,16 @@
	current_id = ID_STR(i) + " => " + XMLTag(i) + " => " + i->qualifiedName().join("::"); // FIXME: this is debug code

	ret += ATTR_STR("id", ID_STR(i));
-	ret += ATTR_STR("name", i->name());
+	ret += ATTR_STR("name", i->name().replace('&', "&"));
	ret += ATTR_STR("scope", i->scope().join("::"));
	ret += ATTR_STR("context", current_context.join("::"));
	// FIXME: is this a dirty hack? yes, it is!
	if (ArgumentModelItem a = model_dynamic_cast<ArgumentModelItem>(i)) {
		//ret += ATTR_STR("fullname", current_context.join("::")+"::"+i->qualifiedName().join("::"));
	} else if (EnumeratorModelItem a = model_dynamic_cast<EnumeratorModelItem>(i)) {
-		ret += ATTR_STR("fullname", current_context.join("::")+"::"+i->qualifiedName().join("::"));
+		ret += ATTR_STR("fullname", current_context.join("::").append("::").append(i->qualifiedName().join("::")).replace('&', "&"));
	} else {
-		ret += ATTR_STR("fullname", i->qualifiedName().join("::"));
+		ret += ATTR_STR("fullname", i->qualifiedName().join("::").replace('&', "&"));
	}

	if (ScopeModelItem s = model_dynamic_cast<ScopeModelItem>(i)) {