moc: Allow NOTIFY signals defined in parent classes

Limitation is that the signal needs to be parameter-less

[ChangeLog][moc] moc now supports NOTIFY signals of parent classes in Q_PROPERTY

Change-Id: Iad64c96c3ec65d4be8ad9ff1a9f889938ab9bf45
Reviewed-by: Olivier Goffart (Woboq GmbH) <ogoffart@woboq.com>
Reviewed-by: Brett Stottlemyer <bstottle@ford.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/tools/moc/moc.cpp b/src/tools/moc/moc.cpp
index 36d84a61d8..f7de57fae3 100644
--- a/src/tools/moc/moc.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/moc/moc.cpp
@@ -1727,9 +1727,13 @@ void Moc::checkProperties(ClassDef *cdef)
             }
             p.notifyId = notifyId;
             if (notifyId == -1) {
-                QByteArray msg = "NOTIFY signal '" + p.notify + "' of property '" + p.name
-                        + "' does not exist in class " + cdef->classname + ".";
-                error(msg.constData());
+                int index = cdef->nonClassSignalList.indexOf(p.notify);
+                if (index == -1) {
+                    cdef->nonClassSignalList << p.notify;
+                    p.notifyId = -1 - cdef->nonClassSignalList.count();
+                } else {
+                    p.notifyId = -2 - index;
+                }
             }
         }
     }