Initial work on gadget support

Changed built-in QtQml value types to use gadgets. This is in preparation for
supporting external gadgets.

This replaces the mostly direct inheritance of the concrete value types with
gadgets and "dynamic" inheritance through QQmlValueType being generic. Over
time as some of the value types may become gadgets, we can remove the ones
here. It's important that these "separate" gadgets have the same memory layout
as the actual types (QPointF, etc.).

Also while QQmlValueType remains practically a singleton, it's not required
anymore to be one. Consequently the JS wrappers for value types keep their own
instance of QQmlValueType. This allows eliminating the qobject_cast in various
places that dealt with the singleton nature. This comes at a cost, making the
JS wrappers slightly heavier. However that is meant to be a temporary situation
and finally the value type wrapper should merely store the meta-object in
addition to the data and the type.

Change-Id: I15071ded0a1e54203f29ec1ecf7a9ab646d1168e
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@digia.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/qml/qml/qqmlglobal_p.h b/src/qml/qml/qqmlglobal_p.h
index 1d0bf59670..2832d0338d 100644
--- a/src/qml/qml/qqmlglobal_p.h
+++ b/src/qml/qml/qqmlglobal_p.h
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ inline void QQml_setParent_noEvent(QObject *object, QObject *parent)
 }
 
 
-class QQmlValueType;
 class QV8Engine;
 class Q_QML_PRIVATE_EXPORT QQmlValueTypeProvider
 {
@@ -223,7 +222,7 @@ public:
     QQmlValueTypeProvider();
     virtual ~QQmlValueTypeProvider();
 
-    QQmlValueType *createValueType(int);
+    const QMetaObject *metaObjectForMetaType(int);
 
     bool initValueType(int, void *, size_t);
     bool destroyValueType(int, void *, size_t);
@@ -243,8 +242,7 @@ public:
     bool writeValueType(int, const void *, void *, size_t);
 
 private:
-    virtual bool create(int, QQmlValueType *&);
-
+    virtual const QMetaObject *getMetaObjectForMetaType(int);
     virtual bool init(int, void *, size_t);
     virtual bool destroy(int, void *, size_t);
     virtual bool copy(int, const void *, void *, size_t);