Override link QUrl parsing?

define-qt

Hello, I'm using Qt 4.8.7. My application needs to handle web pages with "invalid" URLs. It handles these URLs specially; for example I've already overridden QNetworkAccessManager::createRequest.

The problem is making clickable links work; the HTML <a> tags appear to function at first, but the QUrl returned by linkClicked() is empty. My code works fine with valid URL's but I can't figure out a way to force linkClicked() to return a URL that it doesn't think is valid.

Is there a way around this?

Pablo J. Rogina

@define-qt said in Override link QUrl parsing?:

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spoiler alert: not that I have work with it...

have you messed around with linkDelegationPolicy as the linkClicked() documentation refers to?

define-qt

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define-qt

@Pablo-J.-Rogina Yeah, I have it set to delegate all links, which causes it to emit linkClicked. Without that, it's not even clear to me how the links are handled. Unless there's a different way to do it by not delegating the links and overriding a different method?

Konstantin Tokarev

What kind of "invalid" URLs do you have? If they contain some random text, your only solution is to handle clicks via JS and do processing there.

define-qt

I solved my problem, in that I had neglected to encode some characters that needed to be, so they actually were valid after all. User error.

I never did find a solution for parsing truly invalid URL's.

Konstantin Tokarev

As I said above, you can parse truly invalid URLs via custom onclick handler of element

define-qt

@Konstantin-Tokarev Sorry, I wasn't ignoring your post. I'm sure that would work, but JS wasn't an option for this particular application.

Konstantin Tokarev

JS handler can be added via evaluateJavaScript, and Qt bridge used to provide actual handling via exported QObject

I've considered adding API for C++ event hadlers, but that would require some development effort