A tree like Qt object architecture and QML

[Bremenpl]

Hello there,
In the project I am developing the requirements changed and it came out that my current way of connecting the Qt backend with QML frontend is not fit anymore. I had 2 classes that could talk to QML through context property. One of the class was one of its kind in the whole program, the other one was packed into a list.

But now, the backend part looks like a tree... There has to be the main object, that has n second level objects inside, where each second level object has n third level objects inside etc... Now I need to figure out what is the best way of connecting the Qt part with QML together. When thinking about creating a property setter/ getter for each possible property (variable) my head starts to hurt. This has to be more universal and easy to extend, no matter how many branches/ levels/ properties are needed.

I thought of creating a dedicated communication protocol, ie. a single pair of signal/ slot with dedicated data frame but this also seems hard to maintain in the longer run.

I would appreciate all hints regarding this issue.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Wouldn't the MVC pattern be of help here ? You create a model that represents your tree of objects and interact with it rather than trying to make all objects available directly.

[Bremenpl]

@SGaist hi, thanks for answer. Actually I am trying to do this with MVC, but I cant figure out how to do this properly in qml because of the tree architecture + the fact that each branch can exist in more than one instances.

[SGaist]

It should be a tree of QObject and then you can use slots/Q_INVOKABLE methods/etc. to interact with them.