Plasma::Service in plasma2
Marco Martin
notmart at gmail.com
Thu May 2 13:53:28 UTC 2013
Hi all,
following the last monday api review i started to port Service to QVariantMap,
in the branch qvariantmapservice in plasma-framework
ie now you do from c++
QVariantMap op = storage.operationDescription("retrieve");
op["group"] = "Test";
Plasma::ServiceJob *job = storage.startOperationCall(op);
instead op being a KConfigGroup.
In QML the api is exactly the same (and this actually fixes it for qml, where
kconfiggroup couldn't work in qml2 anymore)
the branch now works correctly (the storage test passes) there are two
problems still tough:
* the operation description always has an "hidden" key "_name", because is
needed in Service::startOperationCall (the operation name was before in
KConfigGroup::name()) yhis is not really clean.
* It may require Plasma::DataEngine::Data back to a QVariantMap as in Plasma1
(with all performance issues it means), besides this would be needed for qml
to directly read DataEngine::Data, the storage service, that is always
available for use from anywhere in qml, it saves and restores Data instances,
so QVariantHash, that is not currently usable from QML
Cheers,
Marco Martin
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