[Development] unified data model API in QtCore => thin wrapper proposal

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

On 17 Aug 2018, at 17:08, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Friday, 17 August 2018 02:50:32 PDT Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
>>> Unless someone can volunteer to test. I *think* my design is slightly
>>> better than QJsonValue, so the following should work:
>>> 
>>> value[1]["hello"][32] = false;
>> 
>> That’s great news. I assume it’s also easy to convert from and to JSON, so
>> that one could use QCbor as an intermediate data format if one needs to
>> modify JSON In place and write it out again?
> 
> Please note I said that I *think* it should work, not that it does work. Could 
> you give it a try and see if it makes your life easier?
> 
> Now, looking at the code, I don't think it does work. I thought that 
> QCborValue::operator[] returned QCborValueRefs, but it doesn't. Adding a set 
> of non-const overloads returning QCborValueRef might be the trick. And it's a 
> trick we can add to QJsonValue too.
> 
> Converting from JSON is lossless and converting that content back to JSON is 
> lossless too. It's just not particularly efficient today.

This library looks really nice:

https://cocoapods.org/pods/nlohmann_json

Tor Arne 

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