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[Michal Karnicki <michal.karnicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

Have there been any decisions/activity in the subject? We currently use
Qt.labs.settings in one of the apps and sadly need to install the qml
package each time we flash the device.

Thanks,
karni


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Christian Dywan <
christian.dywan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 31.07.2014 19:45, Sam Bull wrote:
> > On ĵaŭ, 2014-07-31 at 17:44 +0200, Christian Dywan wrote:
> >> From my point of view once you start dealing with objects you'll want
> >> U1db* and for instance save your object as a document.
> >>
> >> Do you have a specific example?
> > My app is a dictionary, and it contains translations for many languages.
> > I want to only display relevant languages to the user. For this, I use
> > an Object as a simple key/value store, with the key being the language
> > and the value a boolean as to whether it should be shown or not.
> >
> > I'd prefer the keys to not be hardcoded, as I load all the data
> > (including the list of languages) from downloaded data, so if a new
> > language were to be added to the list, then the app would check at the
> > beginning and see it missing from the saved Object and add a value for
> > it.
> >
> > Essentially, all I want is a simple Python dictionary.
> >
> > Although, having just explained all this, I've just realised a possibly
> > better solution would be to simply store an array of enabled languages,
> > and check if a language is in the array. Though, this would still be
> > better if the values were hashed, are there sets in Javascript, and
> > could they be saved?
> You can do [ "en", "fr" ] or { "en": "English", "fr": "French" } however
> they are object types in Javascript thus not allowed as settings values.
>
>
> QSettings has support for arrays in the C++ API
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qsettings.html#beginWriteArray
>
> It should be possible to extend the backend so that it detects arrays
> and stores them as such.
>
>
>
> As a short-term solution you could use a string instead like "en,fr".
>
> ciao,
>     Christian
>
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