Getting invalid path from file dialog

JonB

@Creaperdown
Are you wanting a local file path from the Url? What does QUrl::toLocalFile() return?

The 3 /s are expected. But I thought there would be an extra : for the drive: file:///C:/User/....

Creaperdown

@JonB toLocalFile() seems to return the correct thing. What exactly is the difference between path() and toLocalFile()? I have checked the docs but I do not get the exact difference, and when I should use what.

JonB

@Creaperdown
I think you will find that QUrl::path() returns a Url path (probably with schema removed), not a (local) file path which you seemed to expect it to do? localPath() converts from Url to file path.

Creaperdown

@JonB I don't get it. I have a string like file://C:/Users/prtnp/Librum/build/librum_localLibraries/13824929713553088125/ac17af33-67b7-4b57-a6eb-e7bb69cc0d3f.pdf and I simply want the actual path to it, with no scheme.
toLocalFile is gicing me //c/Users/prtnp/Librum/build/librum_localLibraries/13824929713553088125/ac17af33-67b7-4b57-a6eb-e7bb69cc0d3f.PDF 1.5 for some reason and path() gives me /Users/prtnp/Librum/build/librum_localLibraries/13824929713553088125/ac17af33-67b7-4b57-a6eb-e7bb69cc0d3f.PDF 1.5.

What can I do to just get the path to my file: C:/Users/...?

JonB

@Creaperdown said in Getting invalid path from file dialog:

I don't get it. I have a string like file://C:/Users/prtnp/Librum/build/librum_localLibraries/13824929713553088125/ac17af33-67b7-4b57-a6eb-e7bb69cc0d3f.pdf

Can you please start being consistent in what you report, since it is critical. You begin by telling us format "File:///C/User/..." (notice the 3 /). . Now you show it with 2 //s. You also said toLocalFile() seems to return the correct thing. Now you say it does not.

Creaperdown

@JonB Apologies. I have multiple problems with paths across my project while porting it to windows. I have fixed the previous problem, but in the case just described, toLocalFile() does not work.

JonB

@Creaperdown
Start by testing with literals what will work. I expected file:///C:/Users/... to work. You have now introduced file://C:/Users/....

Creaperdown

@JonB Thank you. I have gone over it again, realized that all the paths I get from Qml are in the format "file:///" and that it only accepts paths with in the format "file:///", then I have found that toLocalPath seems to convert it to what I want and I changed it accordingly

JonB

@Creaperdown
I don't use QML, but if file dialog returns Urls of form file:// but it needs to be file:/// that would be strange/unhelpful. But I don't know.

Christian Ehrlicher

@JonB It would be a bug since the schema is file:// (two /) and the path is /foo/bar. And since the path must always start with a / it's file:///C:/foo/bar - everything else is wrong.