[Development] A QtCore class for event-driven jobs

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 9 de setembro de 2013 19:38:20, David Faure wrote:
> I still think the best solution is:
> QtCore: QAbstractJob, and later QProcessJob and QThreadJob
> QtNetwork: QNetworkRequestJob (wrapping QNetworkReply)
> QtDBus: (later) QDBusCallJob (wrapping QDBusPendingCallWatcher)
> 
> The latter is another reason why a QtJobs library wouldn't work. In order
> to  provide an async-dbus-call job, it would have to link to QDBus, forcing
> a QDBus dependency onto every user of core-only jobs like QThreadJob.
> 
> Looking at my initial email, I think that's all. There isn't going to be 20 
> more job classes in qt itself, the only async operations that happen in
> there are all on top of sockets, processes and threads.
> (and timers, but a QTimerJob isn't terribly useful

Let's start with a playground to develop the idea and the API. You can freely 
separate the directories with corelib, network, dbus, eyeing for an eventual 
separation later.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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