I am passing a signal to a method using the SIGNAL macro, and at some point I need to emit that signal.
Something like the below:

Qt Code: 
  1. void Network::get(const QNetworkRequest &request, const char *signal)
  2. {
  3.     QNetworkReply *reply = m_manager->get(request);
  4.     m_requests.insert(reply, signal);
  5. }
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the Network class encapsulates QNetworkAccessManager, so in the method above m_manager is QNetworkAccessManager.
The Network class has the following signal/slot connection:
Qt Code: 
  1. connect(m_manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)), this, SLOT(onResponse(QNetworkReply*)));
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the onResponse SLOT is:
Qt Code: 
  1. void Network::onResponse(QNetworkReply *reply)
  2. {
  3.     const char *signal = m_requests.take(reply);
  4.     // emit signal somehow
  5.     qDebug() << "and the signal is: " << signal;
  6. }
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m_request is: QHash<QNetworkReply *, const char *> m_requests;

The idea is that various other classes of the application can use the Network class to make http requests. Each of those classes calls void Network::get(const QNetworkRequest &request, const char *signal) passing its own signal that should be emitted once the request is finished.
I prototype a small concept of the application using PySide and this mechanism of passing the signal worked perfectly.
But in the C++ version the return of the SIGNAL macro is a const char *, is there a way i can turn the const char * back to an emittable signal?