[Interest] QJSengine access QObject children

[Eric Lemanisser]

Hello,

I'm starting to use QJSEngine in order to make a full QObject hierarchy
scriptable. Calling QJSEngine::newQObject gives access to signals, slots
and properties of the object from the javascript side, but I could not find
the QObject's children in any properties, contrary to what is described in
the documentation http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qjsengine.html#newQObject :
"Signals and slots, properties *and children* of object are available as
properties of the created QJSValue.". Did I miss something ?

As a workaround I ended up developing the following Q_INVOKABLE member,
which properly returns an array of objects with properties when invoked
from JS side:

QJSValue ScriptWindow::findChildren(const QJSValue &v)

{

    const auto engine = qjsEngine(this);

    const auto o = v.toQObject();

    if(!o || !engine) return {};

    const auto children = o->findChildren<QObject *>();

    auto res = engine->newArray(children.size());

    for(int i = 0; i < children.size(); i++)

    {

        res.setProperty(i, engine->newQObject(children.at(i)));

    }

    return res;

}


Shouldn't this boilerplate be integrated in Qt, with the handling of
QObject::findChildren parameters (QString aName and Qt::FindChildOptions) ?
dito for QObject::findChild

Eric Lemanissier
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