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.. _qml-advanced2-inheritance-and-coercion:
Extending QML (advanced) - Inheritance and Coercion
===================================================
This is the second of a series of 6 examples forming a tutorial using the
example of a birthday party to demonstrate some of the advanced features of
QML.
Right now, each attendant is being modelled as a person. This is a bit too
generic and it would be nice to be able to know more about the attendees. By
specializing them as boys and girls, we can already get a better idea of who's
coming.
To do this, the ``Boy`` and ``Girl`` classes are introduced, both inheriting from
``Person``.
.. literalinclude:: person.py
:lineno-start: 43
:lines: 43-46
.. literalinclude:: person.py
:lineno-start: 49
:lines: 49-52
The ``Person`` class remains unaltered and the ``Boy`` and ``Girl`` classes are
trivial extensions of it. The types and their QML name are registered with the
QML engine with ``@QmlElement``.
Notice that the ``host`` and ``guests`` properties in ``BirthdayParty`` still
take instances of ``Person``.
.. literalinclude:: birthdayparty.py
:lineno-start: 26
:lines: 26-26
.. literalinclude:: birthdayparty.py
:lineno-start: 46
:lines: 46-46
The implementation of the ``Person`` class itself has not been changed.
However, as the ``Person`` class was repurposed as a common base for ``Boy``
and ``Girl``, ``Person`` should no longer be instantiable from QML directly. An
explicit ``Boy`` or ``Girl`` should be instantiated instead.
.. literalinclude:: person.py
:lineno-start: 13
:lines: 13-15
While we want to disallow instantiating ``Person`` from within QML, it still
needs to be registered with the QML engine so that it can be used as a property
type and other types can be coerced to it. This is what the ``@QmlUncreatable``
macro does. As all three types, ``Person``, ``Boy`` and ``Girl``, have been
registered with the QML system, on assignment, QML automatically (and
type-safely) converts the ``Boy`` and ``Girl`` objects into a ``Person``.
With these changes in place, we can now specify the birthday party with the
extra information about the attendees as follows.
.. literalinclude:: People/Main.qml
:lineno-start: 6
:lines: 6-16
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