Apply this to the CMakeLists.txt to see the problem
+add_definitions(-DQT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x050f00) -add_definitions(-DQT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x050e00) # TODO look into the QMap::insertMulti usage
Problem: this is in a public header, so we can't change the type away from QVariantMap, until KF6....
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T11553 Port KDE Frameworks away from deprecated methods in Qt | ||
| Open | alex | T14337 Port KFileMetaData away from QMap::insertMulti |
The current API is suboptimal, as it flattens all properties.
This is relevant for e.g. Video files, where multiple streams (Audio, Subtitles, MV-Video) can have disparate sets of properties - Language, Bitrate, ...
Proposal: add an new set of APIs allowing hierarchical property sets, implement the "flat" property view on top of it, deprecate the old API, and port users (data providers and data views) to the new API.
Sounds reasonable. Are you volunteering to write that API? My interest in all this stops at "making it build with Qt 5.15" :)
As there were no further comment on this task and no of the attendants of the KF6 weekly had more knowledge of KFileMetaData to come up with a new API:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kfilemetadata/-/merge_requests/41