KIO::ListJob::entries emits twice for folders with 100+ entries. Why?

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 14 de novembre de 2012, a les 17:32:35, Mark va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm playing with KIO::listDir() and the signals to get the directory
> content and i've hit a strange "issue". Apparently when a folder has
> more than 100 entries the entries signal [1] will be emitted twice.
> 1 with 100 entries
> 1 with all entries
> 
> Also, this only seems to happen if i add:
> job->addMetaData("details", "0");
> 
> See the full code example [2] that also contains the above line.
> 
> On IRC kde__pepo suggested that the first emit might be so that the
> app using it has at least some results while waiting for the rest.
> 
> Whatever the case is, the api documentation [1] is completely silent about
> this.
> 
> Is there an option to disable this behavior? In my case i don't want
> nor need the extra signal and i "was" depending on that signal to
> properly fill my model. However, since that might be emitted twice it
> screwed up my logic and my personal workaround is to rather just
> depend on the results signal (which i can't find in the API docs).

You mean "result" instead of "results", right? I see it documented in the KJob 
class, problaby you want the finished signal, (if it is job being done that you 
are waiting for)

Cheers,
  Albert

> Results only emits once and when expected.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> [1]
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kio/html/classKIO_1_1ListJob.htm
> l#a810353a77053b141c30691265f956dff [2] http://paste.kde.org/606608/