[Development] QMetaType support for QFuture

[Sona Kurazyan]

Hi Konstantin,

QFuture has a constructor for QFuture<void> from QFuture<T>,  see https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/src/corelib/thread/qfuture.h#n82, so you don’t even need to use the broken qToVoidFuture() method. I’ll probably remove it, since it was always broken and couldn’t be ever used.
I can see that in some special use-cases having access to QFuture’s internals might be useful, but this is not something we would recommend to do to all users. That’s why, I think, adding an API that gives access to QFuture’s d-ptr (as it was suggested earlier) might be an option.

Best regards,
Sona

From: Konstantin Ritt <ritt.ks at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 2:29 AM
To: Arno Rehn <a.rehn at menlosystems.com>
Cc: Sona Kurazyan <sona.kurazyan at qt.io>; Qt development mailing list <development at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Development] QMetaType support for QFuture

I was implementing a similar feature few years ago and had the same problem with QFuture internals -- https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/210243
As there was no interest in making those better, I had to hack it in a way I won't promote here ;p
But since QFuture took a new life with QPromise, it becomes even more useful than before and deserves some improvements IMO.
Maybe we could add a public accessor to future's d via QFutureInterfaceBase? Will that be acceptable?

Regards,
Konstantin


пт, 7 мая 2021 г. в 19:28, Arno Rehn <a.rehn at menlosystems.com<mailto:a.rehn at menlosystems.com>>:
Hi Sona,

On 07.05.21 17:11, Sona Kurazyan wrote:
> You could use the QFutureInterfaceBase (non-templated) class directly
> to build a type-erased future, that's basically what QFuture is using
> underneath. Although it's internal (not documented and is considered
> to be private), but it's declared in a public header
> (qfutureinterface.h) and you can still use it. QFutureInterfaceBase's
> methods for accessing its internals are public (with a few exceptions
> that you probably won't need to use). I hope that helps.

Yep, that's what I thought as well. But I cannot get it from an existing
QFuture because it's a private member. We could add some private API to
extract the QFutureInterfaceBase, however.

Anyway, I think I'll have to add some QMetaType magic anyway for this to
work. In QtWebChannel, we get the method return value wrapped in a
QVariant, so the QFuture<T> is wrapped in a QVariant. From there, I
cannot extract the QFutureInterfaceBase in any way.

I *could* just memcpy from QVariant's data pointer to a
QFutureInterfaceBase*, but I'm pretty sure that this is UB.

Any pointer where to start?

Regards,
Arno

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