Is there a way to mark a slot or invokable to not give ownership to the qml engine?

[fcarney]

I have a slot that returns a QObject*. I forgot that QML takes ownership of the object unless you tell the engine that you don't want that ie:

if(m_engine){
        m_engine->setObjectOwnership(m_buttonList[index], QQmlEngine::CppOwnership);
}

This is a pain as I have to pollute my objects to get the engine. What I want is this:

public slots:
    Q_CPPOWNED QObject* getObject();

Some macro or something to mark the slot or invokable. I suppose this is probably not possible as it would need to find the info about the current engine.

[J.Hilk]

@fcarney the qml engine only takes ownership on orphaned QObjects.

make your getObject() function have a check for parent == nullptr, and if thats the case, call setParent to something valid