[Interest] Value objects in QML context

[Roland Winklmeier]

Hey there,

I couldn't find anything usefull in the internet, so I hope you can help
me in a design question.

I'm part of a project using QML for the UI. Since we have several value
classes, we came across a problem with exposing this value objects into
the QML context.
Lets assume I have a class CLocation with member variables for Latitude
and Longitude:

class CLocation
{
public:
   double Latitude() const;
   double Longitude() const;
   void setLatitude(const double latitude);
   void setLongitude(const double longitude);

private:
   double m_latitude;
   double m_longitude;
}

http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtcore/object.html#identity-vs-value is
specificly saying, I should not derive from QObject for this kind of
value classes.
But how can I access this setters and getters now in QML? Lets say I
have a QMap of cities with its CLocations.
In C++ I would call QMap::value() to get the CLocation by the city name
and call the getter or do something else with the object. In QML I can't
to anything similar, because its not accessable in the QML context. Do I
really have to wrap around a QObject derived class, to call the setters
and getters or how is this meant to be? Did I maybe miss something? I'm
sure the designers of QML had such use cases in mind and I'm just not
recognize the easy solution.
Limiting the access to QObjects only in an UI seems strange to me. I
understand the technic behind with Qt Metatype system, but isn't that
limiting alot?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards
Roland