I agree with d3fault/oswald. Adding some setters/properties for the connection parameters of QLocalSocket/QAbstractSocket and a generic "connect" method would make the api somehow more usable. Maybe a connectToHost() method - connectToPeer may be a little less generic.
QLocalSocket and QAbstractSocket already have getters so it would also make the api more consistent - and similar to the QFile api We could also ensure that the open/close methods of QLocalSocket/QAbstractSocket actually connect/disconnect it (it is currently the other way around) so one could do QLocalSocket socket("foo_pipe"); // or QTcpSocket("localhost", 42) socket.open(); ... socket.close(); of course, QLocalSocket would still need to inherit from QAbstractSocket for methods suchs socketType(), error(), state() and waitForConnected/Disconnected() 2012/11/8 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > On quinta-feira, 8 de novembro de 2012 15.48.29, shane.kea...@accenture.com > wrote: >> I think most of the issues can be solved by connecting the socket first, >> then using QIODevice as your base class pointer. When you call >> QIODevice::close() that will disconnect the socket. > > QNAM proves that it is possible. The put() and post() methods taking a > QIODevice pointer operate on any class deriving from QIODevice. The > QNetworkReply test tests QFile, QBuffer, QTcpSocket, QSslSocket, QProcess and > QNetworkReply itself. > > The only thing is that it requires two implementations: the random-access one > (QFile, QBuffer) and the sequential one (all the rest). > >> I'd like to see non blocking (or asynchronous) IO for files as well. > > Would be interesting. > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development