Filedownloader confusion
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I'm new to Qt and I'm trying to get data from a website. I'm trying to follow the Download Data from URL example with the filedownloader class.
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url = "http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=bac";
FileDownloader *m_webData = new FileDownloader(url,0);
QByteArray webData= m_webData->downloadedData();
qDebug() << webData << "webdata";
@With the code like this, webData is just returned empty. I'm not sure what I'm missing.
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No its downloading the file.
for example, if i add an output line to the following code, it shows the data I expect.
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void FileDownloader::fileDownloaded(QNetworkReply* pReply)
{
m_DownloadedData = pReply->readAll();
//emit a signal
pReply->deleteLater();
emit downloaded();
}
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I should have been more clear. The code from my first post is being executed in main (just for getting to know the class).
so inside the class, the webdata is there. but when I try to get it from main, there is nothing there.the filedownloader class comes from http://qt-project.org/wiki/Download_Data_from_URL
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I think it is because you called
@QByteArray webData= m_webData->downloadedData();@
immediately after the
@FileDownloader *m_webData = new FileDownloader(url,0);@The data has not been downloaded yet. Try to create a delay between these lines. Or better, use signal-slot.
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"Signals & Slots":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/signalsandslots.html
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I read through that and unfortunately I have not figured out how to use it. I have a basic class where I have declared
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FileDownloader *filedl = new FileDownloader(url,0);
QByteArray info;
@I'd like the downloaded data to go into info.
I have function getData in my class that will read the data from the filedl.
So I should have something like
@connect(????, SIGNAL(downloaded()), SLOT(getData()));@
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your FileDownloader insatnce triggers the signal downloaded(9 once the request is finished.
Thus do this:
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m_Filedl = new FileDownloader(url,this);
connect(m_Filedl, SIGNAL(downloaded()), this, SLOT(onDownloadFinished()));
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void onDownloadFinished()
{
QbyteArray data = m_Filedl->downloadedData();
....
}
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[quote author="Drj312" date="1390355433"]The issue I was having before was that I was trying to connect the signal to main.cpp. I'm not exactly sure why, but that is wrong.[/quote]
Because you used the "3-parameter-connect()":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qobject.html#connect-3, which automatically tries to connect it to the specified slot of the this-pointer.
