[Development] Make Qt6 JNI API safer to use

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 5 March 2020 07:14:44 PST Vitaly Fanaskov wrote:
> I think something like std::expected is a nice thing to have.
> 
> There is some experimental implementation of std::expected: 
> https://github.com/TartanLlama/expected.
> 
> Another good example is Result 
> (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/index.html) type from Rust. But 
> might look clumsy in C++, because there is neither pattern matching nor 
> operator? 
> (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/index.html#the-question-mark-operator-> )  to handle this case gracefully.

We have QSystemResult in QtCore already. This predates both std::expected and 
Result from Rust.

One of my abandoned commits (see the I/O thread) was an update to it to make 
it better.
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  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products