[Solved] QVariant and custom types

[DSav]

I’ve got a class (pubic default and copy constructors and destructor are implemented) named, say, SomeClass and SomeClassList that is a typedef for QList<SomeClass>. Stream operators are implemented for SomeClass and both SomeClass and SomeClassList are registered using Q_DECLARE_METATYPE and qRegisterMetaTypeStreamOperators.

QSettings instance is used to store SomeClassList instances. I faced the following issue:
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SomeClassList defaultList;

// ....

// assuming that defaultList contains N SomeClass instances:
QVariant variantList = QVariant::fromValue(defaultList);
// here list will contain N SomeClass instances, everything’s fine:
SomeClassList list = variantList.value<SomeClassList>();

// But, if there’s nothing to read from "somelist", anotherList gets empty,
// nothing’s copied from variantList
SomeClassList anotherList = settings->value("somelist", variantList).value<SomeClassList>();
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What can be the reason for such a behaviour?

[loladiro]

Very odd. Here are some hints as to what you can investigate:

Try QSettings::contains() to see whether or nor QSettings thinks the value is set

Try comparing the return value from settings->value() with you original list (i.e. don't use the conversion back to you original class, yet.

[DSav]

Actually value "somelist" was set to nothing in settings, that’s why default value wasn’t loaded. So the problem is where value is saved, not read; steps to reproduce the problem were simply incorrect.

So, nomore questions from my side, thanks.

[loladiro]

Ok, that's what I suspected.