[Development] Renaming QGenericItemModel

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 21 May 2025, at 08:47, Volker Hilsheimer via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
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>> On 20 May 2025, at 12:50, Giuseppe D'Angelo <giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com> wrote:
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>> On 20/05/2025 10:26, Richard Gustavsen wrote:
>>> Would it be more convenient to put the range API directly on QRangeModel instead? E.g:
>>> QRangeModel model({1, 2, 3, 4, 5});
>>> listView.setModel(&model);
>>> model.erase(model.begin());
>>> model[0] = x;
>>> model.push_back(y);
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>> Yes, this is an important question -- in order to understand the future of this API, and thus the name of the class.
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> It would of course be more convenient. But for that to work (ie. for us to know what model.begin() is, what operator[] returns, and what ‘y’ can be), QRangeModel has to be a template class.
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> And it isn’t, and shouldn’t be, as a subclass of a polymorphic type for the reasons discussed (weak vtables, and vtable bloat for each specialization).
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> The only alternative I see is making it a value type that can implicitly convert to a QAbstractItemModel *. But that’s then not a model itself, and shouldn’t be called “Model". It would then be a QRangeModelAdapter (although I wouldn’t want it to implicitly convert to QAbstractItemModel *).
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> Volker

Change at https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/647408 needs a +2.

Volker