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authorOlivier Goffart <ogoffart@woboq.com>2019-11-23 12:28:07 +0100
committerOlivier Goffart <ogoffart@woboq.com>2019-12-05 08:28:28 +0100
commitf43cb31ba00a431c6d0a0b17750483a72ae03bb0 (patch)
tree47ae48edf280db7b481e24ef1f60c0760f80c349 /src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp
parentde6520805abafbc6f898b3fec043e5d85827dfd0 (diff)
Deprecate QVariant::operator< and related operators
Since the operator does not have a total order, it is kind of pointless, and this is going to be removed in Qt6 Change-Id: I754be059726bf30993550a2d753f8b865f2d4a5f Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@qt.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp')
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diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp b/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp
index 762a761026..d1eb463514 100644
--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qvariant.cpp
@@ -3829,6 +3829,7 @@ bool QVariant::convert(const int type, void *ptr) const
/*!
\fn bool QVariant::operator<(const QVariant &v) const
+ \obsolete
Compares this QVariant with \a v and returns \c true if this is less than \a v.
@@ -3838,10 +3839,15 @@ bool QVariant::convert(const int type, void *ptr) const
\warning To make this function work with a custom type registered with
qRegisterMetaType(), its comparison operator must be registered using
QMetaType::registerComparators().
+
+ This operator is deprecated as it cannot establish a total order required
+ for most use of this operator, which is the reason you cannot use QVariant
+ as the key of a QMap.
*/
/*!
\fn bool QVariant::operator<=(const QVariant &v) const
+ \obsolete
Compares this QVariant with \a v and returns \c true if this is less or equal than \a v.
@@ -3851,10 +3857,13 @@ bool QVariant::convert(const int type, void *ptr) const
\warning To make this function work with a custom type registered with
qRegisterMetaType(), its comparison operator must be registered using
QMetaType::registerComparators().
+
+ This operator is deprecated as it cannot establish a total order.
*/
/*!
\fn bool QVariant::operator>(const QVariant &v) const
+ \obsolete
Compares this QVariant with \a v and returns \c true if this is larger than \a v.
@@ -3864,10 +3873,13 @@ bool QVariant::convert(const int type, void *ptr) const
\warning To make this function work with a custom type registered with
qRegisterMetaType(), its comparison operator must be registered using
QMetaType::registerComparators().
+
+ This operator is deprecated as it cannot establish a total order.
*/
/*!
\fn bool QVariant::operator>=(const QVariant &v) const
+ \obsolete
Compares this QVariant with \a v and returns \c true if this is larger or equal than \a v.
@@ -3877,6 +3889,8 @@ bool QVariant::convert(const int type, void *ptr) const
\warning To make this function work with a custom type registered with
qRegisterMetaType(), its comparison operator must be registered using
QMetaType::registerComparators().
+
+ This operator is deprecated as it cannot establish a total order.
*/
static bool qIsNumericType(uint tp)