[Development] QtRemoteObjects (was Replicant)

[Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.)]

On Monday, October 20, 2014 6:45 AM Simon Hausmann wrote:
>> I wasn't trying to suggest using protocol buffers as a wholesale 
>> replacement for MOC generated code.  I was thinking only of the piece 
>> for marshalling Properties and Signal arguments for QueuedConnection 
>> calls, and the return value.  Since the types are known at compile 
>> time (based on everything MOC already does), it should be possible to 
>> generate the protocol buffer definitions for those items, which would 
>> then be compiled with the rest of the MOC generated code.
>
> Hmm, the problem I see is that the types are _not_ known at moc execution time, only at C++ compile time.

I'm not sure what you mean.  The MOC output includes lines like:
case 3: _t->timeChanged2((*reinterpret_cast< QTime(*)>(_a[1]))); break;

The QTime is determined by MOC when MOC runs....

Brett