Store a QV4::ReturnedValue in QJSValue

Being careful, we can now save primitive values inline. We use the heap
pointer of QV4::Value as either QString* or QV4::Value* for complex
types. We cannot store persistent managed QV4::Value without the double
indirection as those need to be allocated in a special place.

The generic QVariant case is not supported anymore. The only place where
it was actually needed were the stream operators for QJSValue. Those
were fundamentally broken:

* A managed QJSValue saved and loaded from a stream was converted to a
  QVariant-type QJSValue
* QVariant-type QJSValues were not callable, could not be objects or
  arrays, or any of the special types.
* Cyclic references were forcibly broken when saving to a data stream.

In general the support for saving and loading of managed types to/from
a data stream was so abysmally bad that we don't lose much by dropping
it.

[ChangeLog][QML][Important Behavior Changes] When saving a QJSValue to a
QDataStream only primitive values or strings will be retained. Support
for objects and arrays was incomplete and unreliable already before. It
cannot work correctly as we don't necessarily have a JavaScript heap
when loading a QJSValue from a stream. Therefore, we don't have a proper
place to keep any managed values. Using QVariant to keep them instead is
a bad idea because QVariant cannot represent everything a QJSValue can
contain.

Fixes: QTBUG-75174
Change-Id: I75697670639bca8d4b1668763d7020c4cf871bda
Reviewed-by: Fabian Kosmale <fabian.kosmale@qt.io>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/qml/qml/qqmlboundsignal.cpp b/src/qml/qml/qqmlboundsignal.cpp
index b347bb3829..6de4ef153e 100644
--- a/src/qml/qml/qqmlboundsignal.cpp
+++ b/src/qml/qml/qqmlboundsignal.cpp
@@ -202,10 +202,7 @@ void QQmlBoundSignalExpression::evaluate(void **a)
         //    for several cases (such as QVariant type and QObject-derived types)
         //args[ii] = engine->metaTypeToJS(type, a[ii + 1]);
         if (type == qMetaTypeId<QJSValue>()) {
-            if (QV4::Value *v4Value = QJSValuePrivate::valueForData(reinterpret_cast<QJSValue *>(a[ii + 1]), &jsCall->args[ii]))
-                jsCall->args[ii] = *v4Value;
-            else
-                jsCall->args[ii] = QV4::Encode::undefined();
+            jsCall->args[ii] = QJSValuePrivate::asReturnedValue(reinterpret_cast<QJSValue *>(a[ii + 1]));
         } else if (type == QMetaType::QVariant) {
             jsCall->args[ii] = scope.engine->fromVariant(*((QVariant *)a[ii + 1]));
         } else if (type == QMetaType::Int) {