QSqlTableModel::setRecord(): do not try to detect value changes

In an apparent attempt to be economical with emitting dataChanged()
and submitting SQL to the databse, setRecord() compares each field
value of the record with the old value, taking action only when
a difference is detected.  Several complaints against this code are:

-The comparision does not work on float type.

-It is really up to the application and database to decide this. The
model should make few assumptions. The application has the option to
omit fields from the record that should be ignored.

-The current behavior seems to assume that the "old" values are the
current state of the database, but the database may have changed since
the model was last refreshed.

-The code compares the value from record(), which probably
corresponds to the EditRole, with the DisplayRole value from data().

Change-Id: I11477c185eb411d442144dc682893d0df12d03d5
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/sql/models/qsqltablemodel.cpp b/src/sql/models/qsqltablemodel.cpp
index 1746883d34..7210ddce5b 100644
--- a/src/sql/models/qsqltablemodel.cpp
+++ b/src/sql/models/qsqltablemodel.cpp
@@ -1217,15 +1217,8 @@ bool QSqlTableModel::setRecord(int row, const QSqlRecord &record)
         } else if (d->strategy != OnManualSubmit) {
             // historical bug: this could all be simple like OnManualSubmit, but isn't
             const QModelIndex cIndex = createIndex(row, idx);
-            // historical bug: comparing EditRole with DisplayRole values here
-            const QVariant oldValue = data(cIndex);
-            const QVariant value = record.value(i);
-            // historical bug: it's a bad idea to check for change here
-            // historical bug: should test oldValue.isNull() != value.isNull()
-            if (oldValue.isNull() || oldValue != value) {
-                mrow.setValue(idx, record.value(i));
-                emit dataChanged(cIndex, cIndex);
-            }
+            mrow.setValue(idx, record.value(i));
+            emit dataChanged(cIndex, cIndex);
         } else {
             mrow.setValue(idx, record.value(i));
         }