How to convert QML to QWidgets .ui XML code?

[Eager]

As I am the fan of QML so I want to make a QtCreator plugin so that I may be able to write QWidgets ui in QML like code. QML is readable and takes less real-state.
My question is how can I convert the following QML like code to the following .ui XML code.
My proposed QML like code:

QWidget {
    name: "centralWidget"
    QPushButton {
        name: "pushButton"
        geometry: {
            x: 10
            y: 20
            width: 150
            height: 50
        }
        text: "Hello World!"
    }
}

.ui XML code:

  <widget class="QWidget" name="centralWidget">
   <widget class="QPushButton" name="pushButton">
    <property name="geometry">
     <rect>
      <x>10</x>
      <y>20</y>
      <width>150</width>
      <height>50</height>
     </rect>
    </property>
    <property name="text">
     <string>Hello World!</string>
    </property>
   </widget>
  </widget>
 </widget>

I would be thankful if someone point me to the right direction or provide me a sample code/library please!

[mrjj]

Hi
The QML format is very close to JSON syntax.
So if you use a relaxed parser like
https://hjson.org/
that accepts values with no "" then it should be able to parse most of it.
or have a look at
https://github.com/jesperhh/qmlfmt
to see if it can parse enough. ( and/or use it for the plugin to format the QML)
If you need full blown parsing, then you could look at
https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtdeclarative/src/qml/parser/

For saving to UI format, you might have a look at
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qabstractformbuilder.html#save
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qformbuilder.html

However, thats for saving QWidgets runtime so might not be possible with QML objects.

So you might end up using a XML library.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtxml-index.html
https://pugixml.org/

to construct the UI files your self from the QML tree.

[SGaist]

Hi,

You might also want to check KDAB's DeclarativeWidgets project.

[Eager]

Went through proper lexical analysis and parsing approach.

[sammtan]

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