KUrl or QUrl bug?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Sexta-feira 18. Junho 2010, às 17.09.37, Sebastian Trüg escreveu:
> On 06/18/2010 04:47 PM, Hans Meine wrote:
> > On Friday 18 June 2010 16:38:15 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> >> On 06/18/2010 03:45 PM, David Faure wrote:
> >>> Yes, because "no query" isn't the same as "an empty query", IIRC.
> >>> So after removing the query, you have a url with "an empty query".
> >>> Did you try calling .url() on both urls? I suppose url3 will have a
> >>> trailing '?'.
> >> 
> >> exactly. I just think it is unwanted behavior. What exactly is this good
> >> for? Who would ever want to have an empty query?
> > 
> > Famous last words.. ;-)
> > 
> > Answer: "Broken" (unusual) websites?
> 
> OK, I can see that. But still this is a special case that should IMHO
> not be the default. It should require a dedicated method call or
> something. As you state yourself it is a corner case for "broken" und
> "unusual" web sites.
> 
> I doubt that any user of QUrl would not think that removing all query
> items results in a URL without a query.
> 
> The only place where the behavior is stated in the QUrl documentation is
> setEncodedQuery(), a method very rarely used I assume. So IMHO that
> should be enough to set "the empty query" while removing query items
> should always result in no query at all.

I added support for empty queries because KDE required it.

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