[Interest] What's next for Qt 5.3?

[Philipp Kursawe]

Understood, yes the meta object system could be facilitated for that. I
have something similar implemented for my in-app protocol handler.



On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Close, more about using QObjects and QPROPERTYs to create a object
> hierarchy which map to slots.
>
> root = RestObject(NULL);
>
> class O1 : public RestObject {
> Q_PROPERTY (QString p1 READ p1)
> }
>
> o1 = O1("o1", root);
>
> GET /o1/p1 (calls O1::p1())
>
> Add QMetaObject magic for mapping query paramters to slot parameters
>
> GET /o1/p1?q1=6 (calls O1::p1(6))
> GET /o1/p1?q1=6&q2=7 (calls O1::p1(6,7))
>
> add a PUT/POST for storage:
> POST /O1/p2
> 7
>
> calls O1::setP2(7)
>
> etc. Basically REST services are object hierarchies, and we do that with
> QObjects (RestObjects)
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Philipp Kursawe <phil.kursawe at gmail.com>
> *To:* Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2013 2:46 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] What's next for Qt 5.3?
>
> Uhmm, what do you mean by providing REST Services?
> Are you talking about a HTTP framework like Rails or Sinatra? Imho such
> functionality has no place in the default distribution of Qt. You can
> easily develop that as an addon library. In fact, to develop a basic REST
> HTTP Server in plain C++ with routes and handlers takes only a couple of
> hundred lines. With Qt it should be even less.
> https://github.com/pke/atlhttpd/blob/master/HttpServerImpl.h
>
> And can be used like this:
> https://github.com/pke/atlhttpd/blob/master/atlhttpd.cpp
>
> Is that what you have in mind?
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> So now we have mobile off to the races...
>
> Is anything going to happen with making Qt a better network toolkit? By
> that I mean SOAP and rest services - and providing those, not just
> consuming them. Maybe a HTML5 canvas as part of QPA? WebGL for QML?
>
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