[Qt-interest] Handling translations in a multi-threaded server

[Tony Rietwyk]

> Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2011 22:09 PM
> 
> > Hi Konrad,
> >
> > Not at all.  I was coming to the same conclusion myself - 
> load them all in a
> > QHash<QString, QTranslator *>.  Luckily, the 
> QTranslator::translate method
> > is const, so multi-threaded access should not require locking.
> 
> The constness means nothing. It's not marked as reentrant or
> thread-safe, therefore you must assume that it's not safe to use it
> from multiple threads (with or without locking).
> 
> -- 
> Giuseppe D'Angelo

Thanks Giuseppe, 

You're correct.  I've reread the Qt Reentrancy and Thread-Safety section.  These are only error messages, so the locking won't occur very often.  

Thanks! 

Tony