[Development] Need suggestion for a new API

[Matt Broadstone]

On Friday, January 31, 2014, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I needed a suggestion on an API I'm adding to QNetworkAccessManager and co.
>
> I'm adding a HTTP redirect feature to QNAM. It can be enabled at a global
> (QNAM) level, or can be enabled/disabled on a per request (QNetworkRequest)
> basis. The per-request setting, if set, overrides the global one otherwise
> uses whatever is set in the global setting.
>
> The default value of the global setting is false, i.e don't follow
> redirects.
>
> The QNAM setting can be a simple bool which defaults to 'false' if not
> explicitly set by the user. However, the request level setting needs 3
> states - true (follow redirects), false (don't follow) and unset (use
> global setting).
>
> I was thinking I can have the request level setting as a 'pointer to a
> bool' which is uninitialized (NULL) if a user does NOT explicitly set the
> behaviour for the request or is initialized to whatever value is passed
> (true/false). But this would mean allocating space for a pointer etc,
> though I can manage it with a scoped pointer.
>
> Or else I could have an enum in the request class identifying these 3
> states (I don't want to add an enum for such a simple thing).
>
> Any other suggestions on how this could be handled?
>
> Thanks,
> -mandeep
>
>
sounds to me like the most "Qt" way of handling it is the enum route.
specifically qnam havin something like setHttpRedirectPolicy(policy) or the
like.

Matt
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