[Development] QMetaType support for QFuture

[Arno Rehn]

Hey everyone,

I'm currently working on making QFuture return types work transparently 
in QtWebChannel. For remote clients, method return values are received 
asynchronously via callbacks anyway.

However, QFuture introspection is not supported by the meta-type (yet) 
and there's no other way to register a generic QVariant-based 
continuation for "any" QFuture. All implementation details are private 
or protected and only some friend classes have access.

I was wondering if I should add a local "workaround" to QWebChannel only 
(like QWebChannel::registerFutureType<int>() to support QFuture<int>) or 
if I should push something more general to QtCore. Maybe just some 
additional private API that supports the necessary private member access?

Looking forward to some feedback.

Regards,
Arno

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