how to feed data to Qt creator ( plugin development )

Qjay

hello , i am trying to create a plugin for Qt creator. I have followed the docs example and have a working hello world plugin now . I have modified it to call meson via Qtcprocess and get back results .

I am currently storing the results as QVariantMap . kind of like this

const QString args = "introspect --targets /home/user/project/meson/builddir/";
   QObject *parent = nullptr;
    Utils::QtcProcess process(parent);

    process.setCommand(getMesonPath(), args);
    process.start();

    int res = process.waitForFinished();

    if( !res ) {
        qDebug() << process.errorString();
    }

    process.waitForFinished();

    QByteArray output = process.readAllStandardOutput();
    qDebug() << output;

    const QJsonDocument doc = QJsonDocument::fromJson(output);
    foreach ( auto value, doc.array()) {
        introspectResults["name"] = value.toObject().value("name").toString();
        introspectResults["filename"] = value.toObject().value("filename").toString();
        introspectResults["id"] = value.toObject().value("id").toString();
        introspectResults["type"] = value.toObject().value("type").toString();
    }

now how to proceed ? . My initital goal is to be able to open meson projects in Qt creator. Also show the project in sidebar ( projectExplorer i what it is called guess) .

mrjj

Hi
I have not seen may doing Creator plugins here.
I think best chance is to use
https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qt-creator/
and look around in source. All is hot linked so its very
good to discover with. (IMHO)

aha_1980

Hi @Qjay,

I'd take the Generic Project Manager as template. It's very easy to understand and should get you forward a bit.

process.waitForFinished();

No, please don't do this. Use signals & slots instead.

Regards

Qjay

thanks !! . I will look into both of them