QUrl toLocalFile

[krobinson]

I have a QUrl that I am creating from a string path. The path contains the # character in one of the folder names. The issue I am having is that when I do a .toLocalFile it stops at the # character. If I do a .toString it returns it fine. I also noticed that .toEncoded doesn't encode the # for some reason. Any ideas?

[SGaist]

Hi,

AFAIK, # in a url will be considered a fragment so it might be that that you are hitting. However I don't know how it's handled for a local file path

[dbzhang800]

@krobinson

Hi, I can not reproduce this problem under Qt5

#include <QtCore>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QString file("D:\\a#b\\aaa#bbbb.txt");
    QUrl url("file:///D:/a%23b/aaa%23bbbb.txt");

    qDebug()<<url.toLocalFile();
    qDebug()<<QUrl::fromLocalFile(file);
    return 0;
}

The output is

"D:/a#b/aaa#bbbb.txt"
QUrl("file:///D:/a%23b/aaa%23bbbb.txt")

[krobinson]

It turned out I had a lot more wrong with my path handling that just this. The differences between url and local path are a little confusing. I was grabbing the local path from a QDirIterator and then tacking on "file:///". Then I would create a QUrl from this. I think the QUrl then assumes its already in url format and doesn't encode the characters or something like that.

I was geting the initial path from a QDirIterator.

QString filename = it.next();

In this case the path I get is

D:/Test#/Test/file.txt

Then I if I run this code.

QUrl url("file:///" + filename);
qDebug() << url;
qDebug() << url.toLocalFile();

The output is
QUrl("file:///D:/Test#/Test/file.txt")
"D:/Test"

I noticed the .fromLocalFile earlier, but didn't notice when I passed it in with the file:/// already on, it was adding another. When I took a second look I released that adding it on myself was not correct. I needed to use .fromLocalFile on the file name directly coming out of the QDirIterator. Once I did this it worked great.