[Qt-qml] Towards QtQuick 2.0 , what more improvements to make JS first class citizen?

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

I agree. You should vote at
https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com//browse/QTBUG-12117. It's got 42
votes, atm :-)

Girish

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Johan Paul <johan.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> XML is a first-class citizen in QML, which I find very "90s". JSON should be
> on the same level that XML currently is. Just think about the models that
> can be automatically built from XML. Being able to do the same from JSON
> would be awesome, and to be honest, matching today's requirements.
>
>
> --
> Johan
>
>
>> Why can't you just import json2.js?
>>
>> Girish
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Johan Paul<johan.paul at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Nothing about QML JSON parsing? What a letdown.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Johan
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Sivan,
>>>> Have you seen the links below:
>>>> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qt5-snapshot/qdeclarativejavascript.html
>>>> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qt5-snapshot/qtquick2-whatsnew.html
>>>>
>>>> A new thing that I learnt from irc yesterday is that "property var"
>>>> has been implemented
>>>> (http://lists.qt.nokia.com/pipermail/qt-qml/2011-June/002667.html).
>>>>
>>>> Girish
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Sivan Greenberg<sivan at omniqueue.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>>   Given
>>>>> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qdeclarativejavascript.html#qml-javascript-restrictions
>>>>> , what more improvements are planned? (Besides perhaps making JSON
>>>>> strings first class citizens as well as automatic arrays[0] ;))
>>>>>
>>>>>   As I'm moving on with my development utilizing JS within QtQuick, I
>>>>> realize that eventually there's not too much I need to fallback to C++
>>>>> for, at least for the prototyping and first release. I'm thankful for
>>>>> that.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Is there a development mailing list for that to follow ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks QML team, keep up the good work!
>>>>>
>>>>> -Sivan
>>>>>
>>>>> [0]:
>>>>> https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-12117?focusedCommentId=165257#comment-165257
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