[Interest] Thoughts on a 'proper' (or standard) file/io API for QML?

[Alejandro Exojo]

On Wednesday 10 August 2016 17:09:17 Jason H wrote:
> I know it's not a normal thing, but occasionally in QML we need to access
> files. Exposing an object is not hard, but it would be really good to have
> a standard to enable QML libraries that use file IO.
> 
> There are two ways to basically so this:
> - QML Specific API
> - Node.JS-compatible API
> 
> I did find this: https://github.com/trollixx/node.qml

This is a different thing IMHO.

> But I think this is something Qt needs to standardize on. My opinion is to
> use the Node API, which contains sync and async functions.
> 
> Does anyone have any opinions or insight on this?

Yes, isn't that what CommonJS intended? I don't remember what Qbs had, but 
something like that I think.

Meanwhile, you should check this:

http://ibeliever.github.io/quickly/

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