Bug 25144 – [Qt] Adding QWebHistory::addItem

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: WebKit Qt

[Mohammed Sameer]

This patch adds QWebHistory::addItem which allows adding history item to the page BackForwardList.

Please bear with me as it's my 1st webkit patch ;)

[Mohammed Sameer]

Created attachment 29417 [details]
patch

[Holger Freyther]

Comment on attachment 29417 [details]
patch

First of all welcome and a '-' is not as bad as it might seem like. There are some beginner issues though.


I think the API addition does make sense, so it is about technical issues as this point. The comments are inline with the patch.




> Index: WebKit/qt/ChangeLog
> ===================================================================
> --- WebKit/qt/ChangeLog	(revision 42423)
> +++ WebKit/qt/ChangeLog	(working copy)
> @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
> [phone]  Mohammed Sameer  <set EMAIL_ADDRESS environment variable>

You should set EMAIL_ADDRESS in your environment or change it here.


> +
> +        Reviewed by NOBODY (OOPS!).
> +
> +	[Qt] Added QWebHistory::addItem that allows adding history items
> +	to the page BackForwardList

Please use the eight spaces, tabs will be rejected by a post commit hook.



>  /*!
> +  Adds an item to the history.
> +
> +  Please note that this will "trash" any forward items

Some more documentation is needed. E.g. a @since 4.6 tag, description of the parameters (e.g. what timezone is lastVisited), and maybe even a unit test, showing the behavior (specially the trashing one).

> +*/
> +void QWebHistory::addItem(const QString &url, const QString &title, const QDateTime &lastVisited)
> +{
> +  QByteArray utf8 = url.toUtf8();
> +  WebCore::String Url(utf8.constData(), utf8.length());
> +  utf8 = title.toUtf8();
> +  WebCore::String Title(utf8.constData(), utf8.length());
> +  d->lst->addItem(WebCore::HistoryItem::create(Url, Title, lastVisited.toTime_t()));
> +}
>

You can write all this as:

d->lst->addItem(WebCore::HistoryItem::create(String(url), String(title), last...);

Why this approach is better:
    - Less code
    - The conversion to Utf8 takes time and extra allocations and your import into String is not losless... This c'tor is ascii only and will lose any non ascii charachters.

Style:
    - Please use 4 spaces as of our CodingStyle guidelines on webkit.org
    - Please use a lowercase letter for the start of variable names

[Mohammed Sameer]

Created attachment 29433 [details]
patch - 2nd try

2nd trial.
I decided to do it the Gtk way without a lastVisited argument.

I also return the new QWebHistoryItem

I'll then create another patch that allows setting various properties on that object.

[Mohammed Sameer]

And thanks for the review and all the tips :)

[Mohammed Sameer]

As for trashing the forward items, this is what BackForwardList does. We can't really control it.

The use case I have is a browser restoring the session upon startup. It should add items to the history so trashing the forward items is not really a big issue IMHO.

[Holger Freyther]

(In reply to comment #3)

> I'll then create another patch that allows setting various properties on that
> object.

So far, QWebHistoryItem is not mutable by choice. Be prepared it might stay this way.

[Holger Freyther]

Comment on attachment 29433 [details]
patch - 2nd try

Saying r=- right now as the history will unlikely be mutable. Is the constructor you are using everything you need? Do you need any other attributes?

[Mohammed Sameer]

For the use case I have in mind, I want to save all the history item attributes and restore them. The easiest way is to add setters to the QWebHistoryItem returned unless you want a constructor that takes a lot of parameters that will have to be updated whenever the history item gets new attributes (I doubt we want this) ;-)

[Adam Treat]

There is work being done that serializes this IIRC.  Marking as invalid given this and the date.