shiboken6: Introduce a helper for dereferencing arguments

Task-number: PYSIDE-2065
Change-Id: I3a7136be7eaf8362afb7b84082db1da73a7cbdee
Reviewed-by: Adrian Herrmann <adrian.herrmann@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Shyamnath Premnadh <Shyamnath.Premnadh@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Cristian Maureira-Fredes <cristian.maureira-fredes@qt.io>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sources/shiboken6/ApiExtractor/abstractmetatype.cpp b/sources/shiboken6/ApiExtractor/abstractmetatype.cpp
index 8a10c6cff..6b0732bbf 100644
--- a/sources/shiboken6/ApiExtractor/abstractmetatype.cpp
+++ b/sources/shiboken6/ApiExtractor/abstractmetatype.cpp
@@ -756,13 +756,18 @@ void AbstractMetaType::dereference(QString *type)
     type->append(u')');
 }
 
+QString AbstractMetaType::dereferencePrefix(qsizetype n)
+{
+    const QChar c = n > 0 ? u'*' : u'&';
+    return QString(qAbs(n), c);
+}
+
 void AbstractMetaType::applyDereference(QString *type, qsizetype n)
 {
     if (n == 0)
         return;
 
-    const char c = n > 0 ? '*' : '&';
-    type->prepend(QString(qAbs(n), QLatin1Char(c)));
+    type->prepend(dereferencePrefix(n));
     type->prepend(u'(');
     type->append(u')');
 }