Plugin properties and string list values

[Alexander Richardson]

2014-10-28 2:12 GMT+00:00 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> Hi Alexander, guys,
> I was debugging some issues and I came to realize that we're not fetching
> properly the list properties in our Plugins. Currently the
> KPluginInfo::property().toStringList() for kdevgit.desktop is
> QStringList("org.kdevelop.IBasicVersionControl,
> org.kdevelop.IDistributedVersionControl"), meaning that both are taken as
> one. As you'll expect, this has ramifications and should be looked into.
>
> I haven't investigated much about why this is happening, hoping that some of
> you know what's going on.
>
> Cheers!
> Aleix

Is it run through kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json? If so, the problem is
that it doesn't
know that that property should be interpreted as a list.

I could add a command line flag listproperties=<comma-separated-list> to
desktoptojson and then we can call
kcoreaddons_desktop_to_json(target foo.desktop LIST_PROPERTIES "prop1,prop2").
Anyone got a better idea?

I guess the best thing would be to write the .json files directly, but
I don't think the translations
can be handled like that.

Regards
Alex