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  • Maickonn RichardM Maickonn Richard

    Hi @aha_1980 .

    I did it this way because the QNetworkAccessManager is asynchronous. I need to get it to wait for finalization or receive a timeout after a certain time, in the example case, 10 seconds.

    Could guide me if there's a better way to do this?

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    aha_1980
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    @Maickonn-Richard

    I'd use a QTimer with 10 seconds timeout. When timer slot is fired, check if the request is finished, otherwise abort it.

    Am I missing something?

    Qt has to stay free or it will die.

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    • aha_1980A aha_1980

      @Maickonn-Richard

      I'd use a QTimer with 10 seconds timeout. When timer slot is fired, check if the request is finished, otherwise abort it.

      Am I missing something?

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      #7

      @aha_1980

      True, I had forgotten that part. I'll do this and see if the problem continues.

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      • Christian EhrlicherC Offline
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        Christian Ehrlicher
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        @Maickonn-Richard said in Memory Leak on QNetworkAccessManager:

        Really the Windows task manager is not the best tool

        It's not even a tool to catch such kind of errors in any way. It may be a hint but nothing more... and since valgrind (which is a tool to catch exactly such kind of problems) does not show anything... but do whatever you like.

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        • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

          @Maickonn-Richard said in Memory Leak on QNetworkAccessManager:

          Really the Windows task manager is not the best tool

          It's not even a tool to catch such kind of errors in any way. It may be a hint but nothing more... and since valgrind (which is a tool to catch exactly such kind of problems) does not show anything... but do whatever you like.

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          @Christian-Ehrlicher

          I thank you very much for your help with Valgrind! unfortunately currently I can not access this tool.

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          • Maickonn RichardM Maickonn Richard

            Hello, first of all I would like to apologize for my English, I live in Brazil.

            I am having problems with possible Memory Leaks in the QNetworkAccessManager class. I did a lot of research and it seems that I was not the only one to notice such a problem.

            I do not know if it's the way I'm doing or if it is really a problem in class.

            I have created a function to get the HTML code of certain websites, however whenever this function is called, I notice a small increase in consumption in RAM. I've already tried using the deleteLater() function and several other ways, but to no avail. What else has worked so far is manually deleting the memory pointers, but there are still minor leaks.

            Here is the function I created:

            #include <QObject>
            #include <QString>
            #include <QNetworkAccessManager>
            #include <QNetworkRequest>
            #include <QNetworkReply>
            #include <QEventLoop>
            #include <QTimer>
            
            
            QString getHTML(QString url)
            {
                QNetworkAccessManager *manager = new QNetworkAccessManager();
                QNetworkRequest request;
                QNetworkReply *reply;
                QEventLoop *loop = new QEventLoop();
                QTimer *timeout = new QTimer();
            
                timeout->setSingleShot(true);
            
                request.setUrl(QUrl(url));
                request.setRawHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36");
                request.setAttribute(QNetworkRequest::FollowRedirectsAttribute, true);
            
                QObject::connect(manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)), loop, SLOT(quit()));
                QObject::connect(timeout, SIGNAL(timeout()), loop, SLOT(quit()));
            
                reply = manager->get(request);
            
                timeout->start(10000);
                loop->exec();
            
                QString html = reply->readAll();
            
                delete reply;
                delete loop;
                delete timeout;
                delete manager;
            
                return html;
            }
            

            Follow the pictures during my tests:
            • On idle:
            0_1532625903949_idle.jpg

            • After 1 minute:
            0_1532625938913_after 1 minute.jpg

            • After 6 minutes:
            0_1532625990201_after 6 minutes.jpg

            • After 28 minutes:
            0_1532626052909_after 28 min.jpg

            I will also leave the link of my project as an example of the problem in GitHub. I am using the MingW 32bit compiler with Qt 5.11.1
            https://github.com/senjaxus/Memory-Leak-on-QNetworkAccessManager

            Thanks to everyone who can help find the problem.

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            wrote on last edited by J.Hilk
            #10

            @Maickonn-Richard

            If I may,

            this is one way, how you can make use of the assynchon function:

            QString getHTML(QString url)
            {
                QNetworkRequest request;
                request.setUrl(QUrl(url));
                request.setRawHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36");
                request.setAttribute(QNetworkRequest::FollowRedirectsAttribute, true);
                
            	QNetworkAccessManager *manager = new QNetworkAccessManager(this);
            	connect(manager, &QNetworkAccessManager::finished, this, [=](QNetworkReply *reply){
            		if(reply.error() == QNetworkReply::NoError)
            			emit htmlRead(QString(reply->readAll());
            		else
            			emit htmlError(reply->error());
                            manager->deleteLater();
                            reply->deleteLater();
            	});
            	
            	manager->get(request);
            	
            	QTimer *timeout = new QTimer(this);
                    timeout->start(10000);
            	connect(timeout &QTimer::timeout, manager, [=]{
            		emit htmlTimeout();
            		manager->deleteLater();
            		timeout->deleteLater();
            	});
            	
            	connect(manager, &QNetworkAccessManager::finished, timeout, QTimer::deleteLater);
            }
            

            You'll have to create slots that connect to the signals void htmlTimeout() , void htmlError(QNetworkReply::NetworkError) and void htmlRead(QString) and proceed from there.

            This should work, but it's untested.


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            • J.HilkJ J.Hilk

              @Maickonn-Richard

              If I may,

              this is one way, how you can make use of the assynchon function:

              QString getHTML(QString url)
              {
                  QNetworkRequest request;
                  request.setUrl(QUrl(url));
                  request.setRawHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36");
                  request.setAttribute(QNetworkRequest::FollowRedirectsAttribute, true);
                  
              	QNetworkAccessManager *manager = new QNetworkAccessManager(this);
              	connect(manager, &QNetworkAccessManager::finished, this, [=](QNetworkReply *reply){
              		if(reply.error() == QNetworkReply::NoError)
              			emit htmlRead(QString(reply->readAll());
              		else
              			emit htmlError(reply->error());
                              manager->deleteLater();
                              reply->deleteLater();
              	});
              	
              	manager->get(request);
              	
              	QTimer *timeout = new QTimer(this);
                      timeout->start(10000);
              	connect(timeout &QTimer::timeout, manager, [=]{
              		emit htmlTimeout();
              		manager->deleteLater();
              		timeout->deleteLater();
              	});
              	
              	connect(manager, &QNetworkAccessManager::finished, timeout, QTimer::deleteLater);
              }
              

              You'll have to create slots that connect to the signals void htmlTimeout() , void htmlError(QNetworkReply::NetworkError) and void htmlRead(QString) and proceed from there.

              This should work, but it's untested.

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              aha_1980
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              wrote on last edited by
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              @J.Hilk very nice example!

              And it perfectly shows how well signals works together with lambdas...

              Qt has to stay free or it will die.

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              • aha_1980A aha_1980

                @J.Hilk very nice example!

                And it perfectly shows how well signals works together with lambdas...

                J.HilkJ Offline
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                J.Hilk
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                wrote on last edited by
                #12

                @aha_1980
                thanks, sadly I leaked the QNetworkReply *reply in the example x).
                Fixed it.


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                Q: What does it do?
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                • Maickonn RichardM Offline
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                  Maickonn Richard
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #13

                  Well guys, after leaving the software running for a long period with the code I posted, I noticed that the consumption of RAM stabilizes. That is, leaks are not happening.

                  I thank all who cooperated, the help of you all were immense, you gave me a number of alternative ways in which I had not considered before.

                  A big hug to everyone!

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                  • aha_1980A aha_1980

                    @J.Hilk very nice example!

                    And it perfectly shows how well signals works together with lambdas...

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                    May May
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #14

                    @aha_1980 Can you explane it. I have same problem with method PUT. Thank you so much!

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                    • M May May

                      @aha_1980 Can you explane it. I have same problem with method PUT. Thank you so much!

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                      @May-May Hi!
                      Explain what?

                      https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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