[Development] Changes to QObject::connect and other functor-taking API implementations

[A. Pönitz]

On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 03:21:40PM +0200, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote:
> Il 02/05/23 12:34, Volker Hilsheimer via Development ha scritto:
> > 
> > What started as an attempt to provide a few building blocks for making it easier to build asynchronous APIs taking any kind of callable (like QTimer::singleShot or QHostInfo::lookupHost) [1] has turned into a bit of a longer journey to the core.
> > 
> > [1]https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/470341
> > [2]https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/475168
> 
> A general problem here is whether we can provide this infrastructure as a
> public API. If I have a class of mine and want to provide convenience for
> connecting to slots/callables, how do I do it without using private APIs? In
> Qt 4 days that was a simple:
> 
>   void foo(..., QObject *receiver, const char *slot);
> 
> But it's not so simple/possible any more with the PMF syntax.

Something like

    void foo(...,
    	    QObject *guard,
	    const std::function<void(const Result &)> &continuation)

does a sufficiently good job over here.

Andre'