[Development] Renaming QGenericItemModel

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den ons 14 maj 2025 12:32Volker Hilsheimer via Development <
development at qt-project.org> skrev:

> > On 12 May 2025, at 13:29, Kevin Kofler via Development <
> development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> >
> > Volker Hilsheimer via Development wrote:
> >> I suspect that “Adaptor” will be a good term to use for such a class.
> >
> > Is this not more commonly spelled "Adapter"?
> >
> >        Kevin Kofler
>
> Both spellings are permissible, Adaptor is preferred in UK, Adapter in US
> English. And since we go with US spelling in APIs and documentation,
> Adapter would indeed be correct.
>
> Thinking more about the name, perhaps the “Item” is not important:
>
> * we have QAbstractListModel and QAbstractTableModel (not
> QAbstractList/TableItemModel)
> * we have QSqlQueryModel - again no Item
> * in a QGenericItemModel, there are no items - there is just a begin/end
> iterator that can be dereferenced
>
> So, perhaps QRangeModel is good/long/clear enough? “Range” is well defined
> C++ concept (literally), and Model is a well established concept in Qt.
>

For me, you have a winner here.


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> Volker
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