'lightweight' QDir::isAbsolutePath replacement ?

[Ralf Habacker]

Hi,

there are several places in the kde code which needs a check if a path 
is absolute. On unix this is mainly done by using  
QString::startsWith('/'), which does not work as expected on windows.

The only static method Qt provides to handle this platform independent 
is QDir::isAbsolutePath(). Unfortunally this method seems to be very 
time expensive because it creates a temporary QDir instance.
A second Qt provided way is QFileInfo::isAbsolute(), although this 
method is non static and requires to create a QFileInfo instance before 
which blows up code unnecessarily.

the third option is to check this directly
    QString path = .... ;
    if ( (path.startsWith(QLatin1Char('/')) || (path[0].isLetter() && 
path[1] == QLatin1Char(':')) )
       // handle absolute Path

an additional imaginable way would be to add kde only static functions 
for this purpose in the KDE namespace. For example
    KDE::isAbsolutePath(const QString &path)
    KDE::isAbsolutePath(const QByteArray &path)
    KDE::isAbsolutePath(const KUrl &url)
    ....

with an implementation similar to:

    return (path.startsWith(QLatin1Char('/')) || (path.[0].isLetter() && 
path[1] == QLatin1Char(':')) ) ;


The question is which way the prefered is ?

Ralf