[Qt5-feedback] QVariant::toString() and custom types

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 17 de July de 2011 23:50:26 Konstantin Ritt wrote:
> why not something simple like:
> 
> template <typename T> inline bool QVariant::canConvert() const
> { return m_type >= QVariant::User ? qVariantCanConvert<T>(*this) : /*
> internal implementation */; }
>  template <typename T> inline T QVariant::convert() const
> { return m_type >= QVariant::User ? qVariantValue<T>(*this) : /* internal
> implementation */; }
> ?
> it makes it possible to convert to an arbitrary type rather than just to
> QString...

Go ahead and try this.

Be sure to test with several compilers, as template programming usually finds 
different behaviours in compilers.

Or you can declare a C++0x-only feature, like some of the QString work we've 
done.
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