[Development] Should QFactoryInterface be documented?

lars.knoll at nokia.com lars.knoll at nokia.com
Tue Nov 8 21:11:37 CET 2011


On 11/7/11 7:33 AM, "ext alex.blasche at nokia.com" <alex.blasche at nokia.com>
wrote:

>Is QFactoryInterface supposed to be public? It is exported and used by
>the internal QFactoryLoader. However it is not documented.
>
>Ideally I would like to reuse QFactoryLoader for the internal plugin
>loading but it requires the plugin to inherit from QFactoryInterface.
>This in turn means that it should be accessible via the docs, right? My
>plug-in use case requires extension by third parties.

Correct. Doing a plugin for text codecs or image formats would also
require using QFactoryInterface. So yes, this should get documented
properly.

An additional question would be, whether we should make QFactoryLoader
public.

Cheers,
Lars




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