Move QMetaMethod::parameterTypes() implementation to helper function

Because of an upcoming change to the meta-object data format, the
ability to extract parameter types from a signature will be needed by
meta-object builders (such as QMetaObjectBuilder) soon.

Change-Id: I1f21b2be41761a5db2f1a05976fad29eb3aebb03
Reviewed-by: Olivier Goffart <ogoffart@woboq.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qmetaobject_p.h b/src/corelib/kernel/qmetaobject_p.h
index d6e49b92d2..59a5c5f280 100644
--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qmetaobject_p.h
+++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qmetaobject_p.h
@@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ struct QMetaObjectPrivate
                            bool normalizeStringData);
     static int originalClone(const QMetaObject *obj, int local_method_index);
 
+    static QList<QByteArray> parameterTypeNamesFromSignature(const char *signature);
+
 #ifndef QT_NO_QOBJECT
     //defined in qobject.cpp
     enum DisconnectType { DisconnectAll, DisconnectOne };