[Interest] Question about QtDeclarative Internals

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 21 Apr 2021, at 15:48, Alex Shaw <alex.shaw.as at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am relatively new to mailing lists, so if I am doing something wrong here please forgive me.
> 
> Is this the place to ask questions about the internals of Qt modules?
> 
> More specifically:
> In QtDeclarative, can a QV4::ReturnedValue or a QV4::Value be converted into an ExecutableCompilationUnit?
> 
> I'm trying to work on a patch for QJSEngine to allow modules to be registered in C++ (similar to Node.js: import fs from "fs")
> The planned method is something along the lines of:
> void QJSEngine::registerModule(const QString &moduleName, const QJSValue &value)
> 
> I can see that behind the scenes, loadModule compiles a URL to an ExecutableCompilationUnit, then saves it to a list of modules for future lookup.
> I thought the easiest way to do what I need is to convert a QJSValue to an internal QV4::Value, and from there into an ExecutableCompilationUnit.
> Is there any way of doing that?
> 

Hi Alex,

Welcome to the list! The “interest" list is primarily useful to discuss developing *with* Qt.

The development *of* Qt, which patching of QJSEngine would qualify as, is best discussed at

https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development



Cheers,
Volker