kdelibs/kimgio

[Michael Ritzert]

Hi Stephan,

Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 14:38 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
 > Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 14:09 schrieb Michael Ritzert:
 > > would be better? The optimal solution I see would be to get a file
 > > descriptor from io->ioDevice() and have JasPer read the data in 
chunks. I
 > > believe, this isn't possible, is it?
 >
 > Well, what can it be? from QFile, a QSocket and QSocketDevice you
 > can get socket()/handle() .

This idea has one problem: I can't figure out which type of device I have.
- QIODevice is not a Q_OBJECT so I don't have inherits(). It doesn't have
  virtual_hook, either.
- using dynamic_cast<> AFAIK has problems with shared libs. This may be the
  reason why I fail to find an appropriate conversion for the io->ioDevice()
  I get for images in HTML pages. I try to convert to QFile, QSocket,
  QSocketDevice, KAsyncIO, KBufferedIO and KLimitedIODevice.
  For a local file I get a match for QFile, so the code should be Ok...

Given this my current idea is:
- if it's a QFile (found out by dynamic_cast<>), use the file descriptor
  and be happy.
- otherwise set a threshold size up to which the compressed data is always
  read to the memory completely. If the size is above that threshold, create
  a local temporary file, save the data there and give JasPer a
  filedescriptor for that file.

So the question is whether it's Ok to use dynamic_cast<>.

Michael