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

[Ivan Čukić]

> On Aug. 29, 2013, 4:28 p.m., Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > tier1/solid/src/imports/CMakeLists.txt, line 12
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111964/diff/4/?file=185592#file185592line12>
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> >     Hm, just spotting it now. Do you really need all of that? In fact I'd expect you to need only Qml. Also qt5_use_modules is now obsolete so you shouldn't use that macro at all.

What is the replacement for the macro?


- Ivan


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On Aug. 29, 2013, 3:56 p.m., Ivan Čukić wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 29, 2013, 3:56 p.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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