[Kde-hardware-devel] Review Request 111964: Basic declarative (QML) interface for Solid

[Ivan Čukić]

> On Aug. 28, 2013, 2:50 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > Looks good!
> > 
> > Maybe it could be a QAbstractListModel? this way it could provide some other features that might be useful in other use-cases (thinking of the devices plasmoid).

It *could* be useful, though I wouldn't want it to be a model just yet - don't want to presume which features the device plasmoid will want.

This is meant to be as slim as possible.

I would be more than glad to work with whoever wants to port the plasmoid to add the needed features later.


- Ivan


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On Aug. 29, 2013, 10:57 a.m., Ivan Čukić wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 29, 2013, 10:57 a.m.)
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> Review request for Solid, Àlex Fiestas, Aleix Pol Gonzalez, David Edmundson, and Kevin Ottens.
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> Description
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> revision 0:
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> This one will need more review and discussion - it exposes some of Solid functionality to QML.
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> The reason Solid classes are not exported directly is that they don't tend to have a no-arg constructor, and some of them are not QObjects.
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> It registers a class (org.kde.solid.)Devices (initially modelled after DeviceNotifier) that contains the following features:
>  - ability to list all devices or just those that match a defined query (Solid::Predicate)
>  - signals for when devices that match the query are added or deleted
>  - isEmpty property - are there no devices that match the query?
>  - count property - the number of devices that match the query
>  - devices property - a list of udis of the devices that match the query
>  - device method that returns a QObject interface to the device.
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> The things I'm in doubt about:
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> 1. devices property and device(...) method are similarly named, while one gets udis, and the other actual DeviceInterface object.
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> Possible solutions:
>  - devices -> udis or deviceUdis
>  - device(...) -> deviceInterface(...) or something else
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> 2. If the user creates two instances with the same query, both instances will contain a query and a Solid::Predicate, the query will be parsed two times and similar.
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> The implementation could be complicated a bit by creating private parts of instances with the same queries to be shared, but is it worth it?
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> revision 1:
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> Shared backends when two Devices objects have a same query.
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> Diffs
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>   tier1/solid/src/CMakeLists.txt c3c462f 
>   tier1/solid/src/imports/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   tier1/solid/src/imports/devices.h PRE-CREATION 
>   tier1/solid/src/imports/devices.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   tier1/solid/src/imports/devices_p.h PRE-CREATION 
>   tier1/solid/src/imports/qmldir PRE-CREATION 
>   tier1/solid/src/imports/solidextensionplugin.h PRE-CREATION 
>   tier1/solid/src/imports/solidextensionplugin.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111964/diff/
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> Testing
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> Yes. Created a test QML application.
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> Thanks,
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> Ivan Čukić
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