Add QMimeType::aliases().

Requested by Allan Sandfeld Jensen for QWebkit, which needs to register
upfront all the mimetypes that a given plugin can handle.

Change-Id: I64b8d39c7988adfc7db4ed8bfdc73acd16e999da
Reviewed-by: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimetype.cpp b/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimetype.cpp
index 9be613924e..80510bc914 100644
--- a/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimetype.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/mimetypes/qmimetype.cpp
@@ -350,6 +350,22 @@ QStringList QMimeType::allAncestors() const
 }
 
 /*!
+    Return the list of aliases of this mimetype.
+
+    For instance, for text/csv, the returned list would be:
+    text/x-csv, text/x-comma-separated-values.
+
+    Note that all QMimeType instances refer to proper mimetypes,
+    never to aliases directly.
+
+    The order of the aliases in the list is undefined.
+*/
+QStringList QMimeType::aliases() const
+{
+    return QMimeDatabasePrivate::instance()->provider()->listAliases(d->name);
+}
+
+/*!
     Returns the known suffixes for the MIME type.
     No leading dot is included, so for instance this would return "jpg", "jpeg" for image/jpeg.
  */