[Development] Behaviour change in QML in Qt 5.8 regarding null

[Simon Hausmann]

Hi,


That is exactly the part I'm referring to. Receiving a QVariant from the QML engine and relying on it

to contain a specific type.



Simon

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From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 8:14:58 PM
To: development at qt-project.org
Cc: Simon Hausmann
Subject: Re: [Development] Behaviour change in QML in Qt 5.8 regarding null

On segunda-feira, 26 de setembro de 2016 09:31:34 PDT Simon Hausmann wrote:
> That said, this is not quite the same as changing the return type of a typed
> C++ function. QVariant is designed
> to hold any type and if you receive a QVariant it has always been a little
> dangerous to rely on specific conversion
> behavior (throughout Qt).

Only if you didn't make the type part of your API, which is what QML had done.

See the failures:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/170491

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

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