default properties that is not a QDeclarativeListProperty

[ugluk]

Is it possible? All my attempts have failed, specifically:

class BSFontLoader
  : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT
 
  Q_ENUMS(Status)
 
  Q_PROPERTY(QVariantList sources READ sources WRITE setSources)
  Q_CLASSINFO("DefaultProperty", "sources")
 
  ...
}

class BSFontLoader
  : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT

  Q_ENUMS(Status)

  Q_PROPERTY(QVariantList sources READ sources WRITE setSources)
  Q_CLASSINFO("DefaultProperty", "sources")

  ...
}

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Doing:

FontLoader {
  "example.ttf"
  "bla.ttf"
}

FontLoader {
  "example.ttf"
  "bla.ttf"
}

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Does not work.

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Added after 19 minutes:

I see:

This marks property as the class's default property. property must be either an object property, or a list property.

But a QVariantList is neither.

[anda_skoa]

Default property is about children in the element tree, so it can be either one object or a list of objects.
A list of value can already be mapped to the array annotation, e.g.

FontLoader {
  sources: [ "example.ttf", "bla.ttf" ]
}

FontLoader {
  sources: [ "example.ttf", "bla.ttf" ]
}

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Cheers,
_

[wysota]

I think this might (it's just a guess, I haven't checked it) also work:

class BSFontLoader
  : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT
 
  Q_ENUMS(Status)
 
  Q_PROPERTY(QVariant sources READ sources WRITE setSources) // note -- QVariant, not QVariantList
  Q_CLASSINFO("DefaultProperty", "sources")
 
  ...
}

class BSFontLoader
  : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT

  Q_ENUMS(Status)

  Q_PROPERTY(QVariant sources READ sources WRITE setSources) // note -- QVariant, not QVariantList
  Q_CLASSINFO("DefaultProperty", "sources")

  ...
}

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FontLoader {
  id: fl;
  [ "example.ttf", "bla.ttf" ]
}
 
FontLoader {
  "example.ttf"
}

FontLoader {
  id: fl;
  [ "example.ttf", "bla.ttf" ]
}

FontLoader {
  "example.ttf"
}

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setSources() would then need to use QVariant::isList() to check whether one or more values have been set to it. The bad part of all solutions here is that you can't do this:

fl.sources.push("xyz")

fl.sources.push("xyz")

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or similar (regardless if sources contains an array or not).