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Subject:    Re: Review Request 111748: Better wrap QMimeData by retaining support for QByteArray
From:       "Eike Hein" <hein () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-07-27 18:41:12
Message-ID: 20130727184112.22041.90400 () vidsolbach ! de
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(Updated July 27, 2013, 6:41 p.m.)


Review request for Plasma, Marco Martin and Sebastian Kügler.


Changes
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Cleaned up diff; v1 contained an accidental paste.


Description
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DeclarativeMimeData::setData() is QString type, QString data, while \
QMimeData::setData() is QString type, QByteArray data. The former ends up calling the \
latter with data.toLatin1().

I have a need to set a QByteArray payload in the taskbar - X11 WIds, as understood \
e.g. by pagers.

The proposed patch changes the DeclarativeMimeData::setData() signature to QString \
type, QVariant data. The implementation checks whether the QVariant is a byte array, \
and if so, hands it to the base class implementation. If it's not a byte array, it \
checks if it can be converted to a QString, and if so, hands the string version's \
toLatin1() to the base class. If the QVariant is neither a byte array nor convertable \
to a string, nothing is done.

This means behavior changes as follows:
- Byte array support is back.
- Anything that QVariant knows how to convert to a QString is converted. This maybe \
subtly different from how QML "casts" to QString, but I think fits the original \
                sentiment of changing the signature to use QString.
- Non-bytearray/string-convertable data is silently dropped.

If this patch is accepted, I would like to backport it to KDE/4.11 as well and make \
use of the improved implementation to restore drag-task-to-pager behavior in the new \
QML task manager.


This addresses bug 322567.
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322567


Diffs (updated)
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  src/declarativeimports/draganddrop/DeclarativeMimeData.h ec725af 
  src/declarativeimports/draganddrop/DeclarativeMimeData.cpp e7cab10 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111748/diff/


Testing
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I haven't even built the thing. It's terribad.


Thanks,

Eike Hein


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<div>Review request for Plasma, Marco Martin and Sebastian Kügler.</div>
<div>By Eike Hein.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated July 27, 2013, 6:41 p.m.</i></p>



<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Changes</h1>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">DeclarativeMimeData::setData() is QString type, QString data, while \
QMimeData::setData() is QString type, QByteArray data. The former ends up calling the \
latter with data.toLatin1().

I have a need to set a QByteArray payload in the taskbar - X11 WIds, as understood \
e.g. by pagers.

The proposed patch changes the DeclarativeMimeData::setData() signature to QString \
type, QVariant data. The implementation checks whether the QVariant is a byte array, \
and if so, hands it to the base class implementation. If it&#39;s not a byte array, \
it checks if it can be converted to a QString, and if so, hands the string \
version&#39;s toLatin1() to the base class. If the QVariant is neither a byte array \
nor convertable to a string, nothing is done.

This means behavior changes as follows:
- Byte array support is back.
- Anything that QVariant knows how to convert to a QString is converted. This maybe \
subtly different from how QML &quot;casts&quot; to QString, but I think fits the \
                original sentiment of changing the signature to use QString.
- Non-bytearray/string-convertable data is silently dropped.

If this patch is accepted, I would like to backport it to KDE/4.11 as well and make \
use of the improved implementation to restore drag-task-to-pager behavior in the new \
QML task manager.</pre>  </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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 <b style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Bugs: </b>


 <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322567">322567</a>


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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> \
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 <li>src/declarativeimports/draganddrop/DeclarativeMimeData.h <span style="color: \
grey">(ec725af)</span></li>

 <li>src/declarativeimports/draganddrop/DeclarativeMimeData.cpp <span style="color: \
grey">(e7cab10)</span></li>

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<p><a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111748/diff/" style="margin-left: \
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