[Development] QQmlListProperty<T>: static_assert that T inherits QObject

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday, January 27, 2017 4:49:15 PM CET Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Regarding the question about why the engine itself uses
> QQmlListProperty<void> internally when populating list properties during 
instantiation, I think you've already found the answer yourself: Because of 
interface types :)

I.e. we need to keep it that way - ok.

> I think it would be great if incorrectly used types could be reported to the
> developer as early as possible, but at the same time the ability to things
> like forward-declaring "Foo" used by "Q_PROPERTY(QQmlListProperty<Foo> ...)"
> is likely a feature used by many people when designing class interfaces. So
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to suddenly break their build when upgrading
> to a new version of Qt.

Has anyone an idea how to fix that in a different way then?

It's a pity imo, if we decide that forward declaring is more important than 
enforcing the correct type hierarchy.

Bye

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