QObjects on interfaces

[Manuel Breugelmans]

On Friday 25 July 2008 00:19:01 Aleix wrote:
> Hi kdevelopers,
>
> I know it is a discussion that has raised sometimes on the IRC and on the
> hackaton but it is something important enough to be discussed here.
>
> As you might know, I'm working on the KDevPlatform Kross support and, for
> Kross it is necessary that an Object, to be recognized, inherits a QObject
> to retrieve the methods it has.
>
> When I have a non-QObject class, I have 2 alternatives if I want it to be
> called from a script:
>
> make it a QObject (as I did in the patch attatched)
> -or-
> make a wrapper as I did in kross/projectitemadaptors.h
>
> I think it is much better to get it from the QObject because we don't
> duplicate any code but I also understand that in cases where it is just
> heavy to use a QObject so...
>
> Note: the attatched patch is just an example of how things change when I
> make it QObject, I don't mean it is the only cases I need that.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you,
> Aleix

Imo the biggest problem with using QObject when it's not needed is multiple 
inheritance. Inheriting 2 QObjects is a no-go, so in java terms this effectivly 
changes interfaces into abstract classes.


Manuel