VcsJob question and suggestion

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 29.05.07 14:46:24, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> diff returns ???
>>>
>>> Seems like diff got lost along the way, basically it would be just a
>>> small class around QPair<QString,QString> for text files.
>> Hmm... yes, that /should/ work but we may need to differentiate between 
>> 'the files, verbatim' and 'a copy of A plus the diff (a,b)'. It seems 
>> like QByteArray would work for binary files although I'm not very 
>> familiar with it.
> 
> Yeap, seems QByteArray is fine. So we'd have a QPair<QString,QString> or
> QPair<QByteArray,QByteArray>. Differing between two files and 1
> file+diff can be done using the type (it is not only usable for
> requesting, but also for checking later on).

I am missing it, where is the plugin telling you what type it gave back?

>>> Well, if we have finishStatus() then we don't need the special
>>> finished() signal and can go with the result() signal.
>> To make sure I understand this: this means there will be a 'still 
>> running' value returned from finishedStatus() and you have to check this 
>> every time in result() to know if you are done?
> 
> result() is a KJob signal, but actually its private as well. I need to
> ask k-c-d on what exactly is the purpose here. The signals from the API
> dox seem to be the only non-private ones. resultsReady() will stay.

D'oh, I completely misread, forget what I said :-).

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Matthew
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