[Kde-bindings] QtRuby: Qt::Variant#value fails for ushort and QChar variants

Richard Dale richard.dale at telefonica.net
Wed Apr 11 16:27:37 UTC 2012


On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:56:44 AM Yaohan Chen wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response. I wonder if the workarounds fail because of
> endian/size difference on your machine. I did try with "native endian" (_
> instead of > at the end of unpack argument), but that makes them fail for
> me. Anyway I wrote them only based on experiment and I haven't found more
> detailed specification of QDataStream format. It's great that the
> workarounds will be no longer necessary!
I got the workround to work after a bit of experimenting. I needed to change 
the unpack strings to '@5N>' for the first test and then '@5n>' for the next 
two. So it does look like it is something to do with the expected endianess.

-- Richard


> Yaohan Chen
> 
> On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 01:40:48 PM Richard Dale wrote:
> > On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 03:11:33 AM Yaohan Chen wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm getting a segfault when calling Qt::Variant#value for
> > > QVariant<ushort>,
> > > and NoMethodError for QVariant<QChar>. I've included test cases that
> > > show
> > > the failures as well as workaround using String#unpack below. They
> > > require
> > > RSpec, RubyInline and of course QtRuby to run. Could anyone confirm if
> > > you
> > > have the same problem?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Yaohan Chen
> > > 
> > > 
> > > #!/usr/bin/env rspec
> > > 
> > > require 'Qt'
> > > require 'inline'
> > > 
> > > # These tests demonstrate that when you get a Qt::Variant by
> > > unserializing a serialized # QVariant via QDataStream, the value method
> > > fails if the variant's type is QChar or ushort. describe
> > > 'Qt::Variant#value' do> > 
> > >   it 'returns the value of an int variant' do
> > >   
> > >     variant = unserialize_variant SerializedVariant.of_int(15)
> > >     # This one works for me
> > >     variant.value.should == 15
> > >   
> > >   end
> > >   
> > >   it 'returns the value of a QChar variant' do
> > >   
> > >     variant = unserialize_variant SerializedVariant.of_QChar(10)
> > >     # This fails for me saying the QVariant does not have method toChar
> > > 
> > > defined variant.value.should == 10
> > > 
> > >   end
> > >   
> > >   it 'returns the value of a ushort variant' do
> > >   
> > >     variant = unserialize_variant SerializedVariant.of_ushort(5)
> > >     
> > >     # pending 'causes segfault'
> > >     
> > >     # This causes Ruby to segfault for me. If it happens for you too,
> > > 
> > > uncomment the pending # line above so RSpec can report the results of
> > > other
> > > examples. variant.value.should == 5
> > > 
> > >   end
> > > 
> > > end
> > > 
> > > # These extract Ruby values directly from serialized variants without
> > > Qt, to show that the # correct data is passed from C++ to Ruby. They
> > > use
> > > String#unpack and skip the first # 5 bytes ('@5') which are QVariant's
> > > type
> > > information and "null flag". See #
> > > https://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/datastreamformat.html
> > > describe 'Workaround using String#unpack' do
> > > 
> > >   it 'returns the value of an int variant' do
> > >   
> > >     string = SerializedVariant.of_int(15);
> > >     # l> for big-endian 32bit signed integer
> > >     string.unpack('@5l>').first.should == 15
> > >   
> > >   end
> > >   
> > >   it 'returns the value of a QChar variant' do
> > >   
> > >     string = SerializedVariant.of_QChar(10);
> > >     # s> for big-endian 16bit signed integer (QChar stores a UTF-16
> > > 
> > > character) string.unpack('@5s>').first.should == 10
> > > 
> > >   end
> > >   
> > >   it 'returns the value of a ushort variant' do
> > >   
> > >     string = SerializedVariant.of_ushort(5);
> > >     # S> for big-endian 16bit unsigned integer
> > >     string.unpack('@5S>').first.should == 5
> > >   
> > >   end
> > > 
> > > end
> > > 
> > > # Given string containing serialization of a variant, return the variant
> > > def unserialize_variant(string)
> > > 
> > >   byte_array = Qt::ByteArray.new string
> > >   data_stream = Qt::DataStream.new byte_array
> > >   variant = Qt::Variant.new
> > >   data_stream >> variant
> > >   variant
> > > 
> > > end
> > > 
> > > # This module contains functions that return serialization of several
> > > variant types module SerializedVariant
> > > 
> > >   inline :C do |builder|
> > >   
> > >     builder.add_compile_flags %w[-x c++]
> > >     builder.include '<QtCore/QByteArray>'
> > >     builder.include '<QtCore/QDataStream>'
> > >     builder.include '<QtCore/QVariant>'
> > >     builder.add_link_flags %w[-lQtCore]
> > >     
> > >     builder.prefix <<-CODE
> > >     
> > >       // Return serialization of the given QVariant
> > >       VALUE serialize(QVariant variant) {
> > >       
> > >         QByteArray byte_array;
> > >         QDataStream data_stream(&byte_array, QIODevice::WriteOnly);
> > >         data_stream << variant;
> > >         return rb_str_new(byte_array.data(), byte_array.size());
> > >       
> > >       }
> > >     
> > >     CODE
> > >     
> > >     # :expand_types => true makes RubyInline insert VALUE self and
> > >     figure
> > > 
> > > arity automatically builder.c_raw_singleton <<-CODE, :expand_types =>
> > > true
> > > 
> > >       // Return serialization of a QVariant containing the given int
> > >       VALUE of_int(VALUE v) {
> > >       
> > >         QVariant variant = QVariant::fromValue<int>(FIX2INT(v));
> > >         return serialize(variant);
> > >       
> > >       }
> > >     
> > >     CODE
> > >     
> > >     builder.c_raw_singleton <<-CODE, :expand_types => true
> > >     
> > >       // Return serialization of a QVariant containing the given QChar
> > >       VALUE of_QChar(VALUE v) {
> > >       
> > >         QVariant variant = QVariant::fromValue<QChar>(FIX2INT(v));
> > >         return serialize(variant);
> > >       
> > >       }
> > >     
> > >     CODE
> > >     
> > >     builder.c_raw_singleton <<-CODE, :expand_types => true
> > >     
> > >       // Return serialization of a QVariant containing the given ushort
> > >       VALUE of_ushort(VALUE v) {
> > >       
> > >         QVariant variant = QVariant::fromValue<ushort>(FIX2INT(v));
> > >         return serialize(variant);
> > >       
> > >       }
> > >     
> > >     CODE
> > >   
> > >   end
> > > 
> > > end
> > 
> > Thanks for the bug report and the very interesting test program. I
> > installed RubyInline to get it working and I'm really impressed how you
> > can combine C code and ruby in the same source. QtRuby has never really
> > had any test code and I think for the next version 3.0 it would be nice
> > to do some tests using RSpec/RubyInline like you've done.
> > 
> > I've fixed the bug in Qt::Variant#value in the master branch. I needed to
> > 
> > change the QChar comparison to:
> >   it 'returns the value of a QChar variant' do
> >   
> >     variant = unserialize_variant SerializedVariant.of_QChar(10)
> >     # This fails for me saying the QVariant does not have method toChar
> >     defined
> >     variant.value.should == Qt::Char.new(10)
> >   
> >   end
> > 
> > The three workround tests don't work for me though and they still fail,
> > and I don't know if that is a problem with QtRuby or the test code.
> > 
> > -- Richard
> > -- Richard
> > 
> > 
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