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

[Vlad Stelmahovsky]

I understand need of IO API, but I dont understand why the API should be
implemented using slow and non effective  (comparing to C++) JS

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:

> Many.
> The problem is if you implement non-generic file I/O, it has limited
> applicability, and you will always need a C++ layer.
> The problem is if you implement generic, non-standard I/O then there is no
> consistent API and charing code becomes hard, as everyone has to implement
> everone else's IO libray.
>
> The only reasonable solution is to provide a generic standard libray which
> satisfies every both use cases. The more code that gets written in QML, the
> more need you'll have to write to files. With this API missing, we are
> headed for a disaster. I'm surprised we've gone for this long without one.
>
>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 4:08 AM
> *From:* "Vlad Stelmahovsky" <vladstelmahovsky at gmail.com>
> *To:* interest at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Interest] Thoughts on a 'proper' (or standard) file/io
> API for QML?
> Sorry for offtop but..
> what the reason to use cross platform, native framework and implement file
> io via JS?
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Alejandro Exojo <suy at badopi.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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> Vlad
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