[Development] QtWebChannel: Upstreaming of Python client

[Lars Knoll]

On 25/10/16 05:17, "Development on behalf of Jonathan Liu" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=qt.io at qt-project.org on behalf of net147 at gmail.com> wrote:



>Hi Arno,
>
>On 24 October 2016 at 00:53, Arno Rehn <a.rehn at menlosystems.com> wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>>
>> At my company we've developed a Python client for QtWebChannel. It
>> consists of a more or less direct translation of qwebchannel.js and an
>> additional layer on top of it, providing async/await syntax support for
>> Python3.5+.
>> Ideally, we'd like to push this upstream. Before I post a patch to
>> gerrit, I'd like to get some feedback on whether this is wanted at all.
>> QtWebChannel seems to be pretty much focused on HTML and the web, but
>> the infrastructure behind it can be used for remoting from pretty much
>> any scripting language.
>> I'd also plan on implementing a C++ client, maybe also Ruby and Matlab
>> (since we're using this in a scientific setting).
>>
>> What's your take on this?
>
>Seems useful. Would be interested to try it out.

I agree, this sounds pretty useful, especially given that we’re also working again on pyside since this spring.

Cheers,
Lars