Review Request 129770: Return stringlist types in KPluginMetaData::value

[Marco Martin]

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tested and works locally

- Marco Martin


On Jan. 4, 2017, 3:01 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 4, 2017, 3:01 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcoreaddons
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> Description
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> Plasma code is littered with
> KPluginMetaData::value("someStringList").contains("blah")
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> This used to accidentally work fine because we would be converting
> .desktop files and have no concept of what KPluginMetaData entry should
> have been a stringlist or a string.
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> Since 49bc26a135bf92bcddecabfdd4f3f71f65540104 we now correctly work out
> the service type of a .desktop file, and so when we parse it, entries
> that should have been lists are now considered a QJsonValue of type
> Array rather than String, meaning KPluginMetaData::value returns nothing
> instead of the original comma separated list in the .desktop file.
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> Even though we should fix all Plasma instances to use the correct
> KPluginMetaData method for the data they're fetching, we can't afford
> to have a behavioural change that will cause huge breakages.
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> Diffs
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>   src/lib/plugin/kpluginmetadata.cpp 453d243dd3c9287b9637eecd1f4b9840eea09838 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129770/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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