[Qt-qml] Settings / State Saving proposal for QML

[Jason H]

With all the focus on App Stores, and the sand boxing that goes along with them, it would be a poor choice to allow developers to specify their own storage paths. The OS should provide you with a storage location and your framework should give you access to it, just as QML SQL does today. This way, your app won't ever fail the approval process for using funky storage locations. 


If you want nested/group/hierarchical, that's up to you. 


What I thought I was seeing, and what I liked, was an automatic binding to persistent storage. The idea that I can give an object a persistent location and updates to it will be saved and retrieved automatically.

The windows registry should no longer be used SQLite has won that war. The registry should onl y be used to indicate the presence of your program and to set up any system associations that your program needs to provide. One funky thing about the registry is that it can be locked down, and things you think you have access to, you might not because they are readable but administrator-only wriatable. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches by using your own database.



________________________________
 From: Shawn Rutledge <shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com>
To: João Abecasis <joao.abecasis at nokia.com> 
Cc: qt-qml at qt.nokia.com 
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Qt-qml] Settings / State Saving proposal for QML
 
2011/11/18 João Abecasis <joao.abecasis at nokia.com>:
> The reason for trying to keep some distance from QSettings is exactly that it has flaws and issues. I don't want to be *forced* to use it or re-implement it. Ideally, the backend will be handled by a platform-specific plugin that is *not* QSettings or based on it.

QSettings could be extended to support json too though.
>
> (Also note that there is a wish to remove QSettings from Qt Core in Qt 5, pending availability of something to replace it with.)

Why?  We wouldn't lose the ability to read and write the same data
stores that QSettings does?  I think the registry is not considered
obsolete yet on Windows, as ugly as it is?
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