[Development] Renaming QGenericItemModel

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Wed, 14 May 2025 at 18:53, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Den ons 14 maj 2025 12:32Volker Hilsheimer via Development <development at qt-project.org> skrev:
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>> > On 12 May 2025, at 13:29, Kevin Kofler via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
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>> > Volker Hilsheimer via Development wrote:
>> >> I suspect that “Adaptor” will be a good term to use for such a class.
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>> > Is this not more commonly spelled "Adapter"?
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>> >        Kevin Kofler
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>> 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.
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>> Thinking more about the name, perhaps the “Item” is not important:
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>> * 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
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>> So, perhaps QRangeModel is good/long/clear enough? “Range” is well defined C++ concept (literally), and Model is a well established concept in Qt.
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> For me, you have a winner here.

Agreed.