[Interest] Qt support for strongly-typed enums
NoRulez
norulez at me.com
Sat Nov 21 05:33:23 CET 2015
Is this also possible for keys in a QHash for example?
> Am 21.11.2015 um 05:26 schrieb Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>
>> On Saturday 21 November 2015 03:08:54 Tom Isaacson wrote:
>> I'm moving an old project to Qt5 and since we've upgraded compiler and now
>> have C++11 support I thought I'd change my enums to "enum class". This
>> breaks some code where I add the enum to a QVariantMap in preparation to
>> conversion to JSON so I had to add a static_cast<int>(). But it made me
>> wonder - is this best practice or is there a Qt way of declaring a
>> strongly-typed enum that's compatible with the likes of QVariant?
>
> Strongly-typed enums need to be used as a completely separate type. You need
> to declare them as metatypes, load them into a QVariant using
> QVairant::fromValue and retrieve using qvariant_cast<EnumType>().
>
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
> Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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