QModelIndex: how to get the Model

Infinity

I have a QTableView of a QSqlTableModel. When I change the selection in QTableView I get the QModelIndex from QItemSelectionModel::selectionChanged. If I qDebug the QModelIndex I get following output:

QModelIndex(2,0,0x0,QSqlTableModel(0x1359740))

I pass the QModelIndex as a parameter to a QDialog like this:

QModelIndex index =  QModelIndex();
DialogProfileEdit *dialogProfileEdit = new DialogProfileEdit(index, this);

In the QDialog I try to get the QSqlTableModel with

QSqlTableModel model = index.model();

With this i get the following compiler error:

no match for ‘operator=’ (operand types are ‘const QSqlTableModel’ and ‘const QAbstractItemModel*’)

How can I get the QSqlTableModel from index?

sierdzio

@Infinity said in QModelIndex: how to get the Model:

QSqlTableModel model = index.model();

That method returns a pointer.

QSqlTableModel *model = index.model();

Infinity

If I do this

const QSqlTableModel *model = index.model()

I get the following compiler error:

invalid conversion from ‘const QAbstractItemModel*’ to ‘const QSqlTableModel*’ [-fpermissive]

JonB

@Infinity
Yes, so use one of the C++ ..._cast<> expressions to specify explicit conversion type to keep the compiler happy.... E.g. static_cast<QSqlTableModel *> if you feel confident, or dynamic_cast<QSqlTableModel *> and check for nullptr if you don't.

sierdzio

@JonB said in QModelIndex: how to get the Model:

@Infinity
Yes, so use one of the C++ ..._cast<> expressions to specify explicit conversion type to keep the compiler happy.... E.g. static_cast<QSqlTableModel *> if you feel confident, or dynamic_cast<QSqlTableModel *> and check for nullptr if you don't.

I recommend qobject_cast<>(). Or, if you don't need the extra functionality, just do:

QAbstractItemModel *model = index.model();

Infinity

I used

qobject_cast<const QSqlTableModel *>(index.model());

but index.model() returns a const QAbstractItemModel *.

Is there a way to make the QSqlTableModel to a non const pointer, because I would like to use setRecord()? Or is there another way that I can use setRecord() on this model?

VRonin

If you need to do non-const operations you need to pass the model pointer downstream.
You currently have something like a slot with a signature void onSelectionChanged(const QItemSelection &selected, const QItemSelection &deselected); and a connect that looks something like connect(view->selectionModel(),&QItemSelectionModel::selectionChanged,this,&MyClass::onSelectionChanged);

all you have to do is chane the signature to void onSelectionChanged(QSqlTableModel * model,const QItemSelection &selected, const QItemSelection &deselected); and the connect to connect(view->selectionModel(),&QItemSelectionModel::selectionChanged,this,std::bind(&MyClass::onSelectionChanged,this,model,std::placeholders::_1,std::placeholders::_2));