[Development] The missing pieces of QJSEngine

[Alexander Nassian]

What’s the point with calling C++ code from JS? We are doing this all the day - via signal/slots and registered types.

Beste Grüße / Best regards,
Alexander Nassian

> Am 28.05.2016 um 11:42 schrieb Corentin <corentin.jabot at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hello.  
> I'm once again trying to cut dependencies on Qt Script.
> 
> QJSEngine still lacks some features to do so. 
> 
> The ability to call a function from JS to C++. I found a work in that direction. https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/108871/2 <https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/108871/2> . I am told the api was probably abandoned over threading consideration.
> The ability to construct a QObject from JS. QtScript had newQMetaObject for that. 
> I have see a lot of people requesting the ability to call a c++ function from JS. One classic usage I have in mind is the implementation of the PAC standard[1]
> 
> As for creating QObject from JS, there are tons of use cases. It is my understanding that QBS
> depends on this feature a lot.
> 
> 
> I don't think that QJSEngine can really pretend to be a replacement for QScriptEngine without those features 
> 
> 
> So, I have a few questions
> Is anyone working on these features ?
> If not, is there an interest for these api ? 
> 
> 
> [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Necko/Proxy_Auto-Configuration_(PAC)_file <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Necko/Proxy_Auto-Configuration_(PAC)_file>
> 
> Regards, 
> Corentin 
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