[Qt-interest] anyone know why QDir::mkpath() isn't static?

[Atlant Schmidt]

Paul:

To expand on Thiago's rather cryptic response, in
your case, the constructor and the method really
*ARE* somewhat redundant but that's because you're
not using the full beauty and grandeur [;-)] of
the class.

What you've really got when you construct a QDir
is a sort of "cd" ("current working directory");
you've got an object that now points to some
directory that exists (or at least could exist)
somewhere within your file system. You can then
do all sorts of common manipulations to this
working directory such as cd'ing downwards or
upwards, extracting bits and pieces of the path,
and so on.

You can also create new paths (or individual
directories) relative to this current working
directory (and these can be absolute paths if
the current working directory is an absolute
path).

It only feels redundant because you're doing
essentially the simplest possible pair of
operations where, yes, it may be "overkill"
compared to mkdir(2).

                   Atlant


-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:11
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] anyone know why QDir::mkpath() isn't static?

Em terça-feira, 12 de abril de 2011, às 10:55:46, Paul Miller escreveu:
> To use QDir::mkpath() you have to do this:
>
> QDir dir("/the/path/you/want/to/create");
> dir.mkpath(dir.absolutePath());
>
> Seems the argument to mkpath() is redundant, or, since the argument
> overrides the QDir's actual path, the whole constructor is irrelevant.
> Shouldn't it mkpath() be static?

QDir dir("/the/path/you/want/");
dir.mkpath("to/create");

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