[Interest] Why does QML prefer 'count' over '.length'?

[Jérôme Godbout]

I for one would rather have .length too, could avoid those nasty function
call to make generic javascript functions:

function getLength(obj)
{
     if(obj.hasOwnProperty('length')) return obj.length;
    if(obj.hasOwnProperty('size'))  return obj.size;
  if(obj.hasOwnProperty('count')) return obj.count;
    return 0;
}

Jerome

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:41 PM, J-P Nurmi <jpnurmi at qt.io> wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 22:04,Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
> > JS uses length on arrays and strings. Anytime you have an array (be it a
> list, etc) the number of items is denoted as .length
>
> And in QML you have .length where you'd expect to have it, in JS arrays
> and strings.
>
> > It makes no sense to have Qt use count in similar situations.
>
> Arrays and strings are not exactly similar situations to item views and
> item models. :)
>
> > As Thiago mentioned length, size and count are all analogous in the C++
> API, so I don't know how/why they are ambiguous.
>
> The C++ API of the Qt containers. Not item views nor item models. Two
> entirely different worlds. The length or size of an array is clear, but the
> length or size of a list view is likely to get associated to the UI
> element's visual geometry.
>
> > I write quite a bit of JS code (server and mobile) and it seems rather
> arbitrary to continue to use count. >
> > Specific places:
> > All models. DelegateModel, DelegateModelGroup, ListModel, etc.
>
> It's not that arbitrary. "Count" is used all over in item views and item
> models, in C++ and in QML.
>
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