Connecting QQuickImageProvider

SGaist

Can you describe your use case ?

guidupas

Answering my own question
Problem solved. Here is the solution step by step:

1 - Create a class that inherits from QQuickImageProvider and QObject and inside it create a Image member (QImage) that is the image to be provided.

class provedorImagem : public QObject, public QQuickImageProvider

Implement the virtual requestImage method. This is the method that will return the image to Qml

QImage requestImage(const QString &id, QSize *size, const QSize &requestedSize)

Create a method to load the provider’s image to return

void provedorImagem::carregaImagem(QImage imagemRecebida)
{
    imagem = imagemRecebida;
}

Now set it as the engine image provider in the main.cpp file

provedorImagem *provedorImg = new provedorImagem;
engine.rootContext()->setContextProperty("ProvedorImagem", provedorImg);

2 - Create another class that inherits from QObject.

class processaImagem : public QObject

Inside this class you must implement a method that will get the image from camera provider, perform the image modifications and return the modified image.
PS: The p_caminhoImagem is a property that I created inside the processaImagem class that receives the camera preview path.

QImage processaImagem::carregaImagem()
{
    QUrl caminhoImagem(p_caminhoImagem);
    QQmlEngine *engine = QQmlEngine::contextForObject(this)->engine();
    QQmlImageProviderBase *imageProviderBase = engine->imageProvider(caminhoImagem.host());
    QQuickImageProvider *imageProvider = static_cast<QQuickImageProvider*>(imageProviderBase);


    QSize imageSize;
    QString imageId = caminhoImagem.path().remove(0, 1);
    QImage imagem = imageProvider->requestImage(imageId, &imageSize, imageSize);

    if(imagem.isNull())
    {
        imagem = QImage();
    }
    else
    {
        //Perform the modifications
    }

    return imagem;
}

3 - Now is the main part. The image requestImage provider method must receive the modified image from the processaImagem class to provide it to QML. To do it the provider class pointer must be accessible to the QML file, so, in the main.cpp file just make the pointer available to QML as a property

engine.rootContext()->setContextProperty("ProvedorImagem", provedorImg);

and register the processaImagem class as a QML type

qmlRegisterType<processaImagem>("ProcessaImagemQml", 1, 0, "ProcessaImagem");

Now we link it inside the QML file

ProvedorImagem.carregaImagem(processaImagem.carregaImagem());

4 - It is done. Now just request the image from the provider:

imagemPreview.source = "image://provedor/imagemEditada_" + camera.numeroImagem.toString();

SGaist

But why not do the processing directly in the image provider ?

guidupas

Can be done directly in the image provider, but it still needs to have a class to send the image to the image provider.

SGaist

Why not grab the image in the image provider ?

guidupas

@SGaist How?

SGaist

Unless I'm mistaken all what your processaImagem does is get the image from the image provider, apply some modification and set it again on the image provider, right ?

guidupas

Yes, but are the camera image provider and my own image provider the same?

SGaist

Are you using the Camera QML type to grab the image from the camera ?

guidupas

Yes, and after that I am performing some modifications and return a square image.

SGaist

In that case, why not use a ShaderEffect to "cut" your image square ?

guidupas

@SGaist
Because I didnt know that ShaderEffect can "cut" an image. I read the documentation and I could not find how to do it with ShaderEffect.

Now I am interested about how to perform the image modifications directly in the provider. How can I pass the image without other class to do it?

Another thing, the modifications performed in the image include rotate the image in case of wrong image orientation.