Explicit or implicit calls to begin() and end() cause a non-const
container to detach from shared data, ie. to perform a deep-copy to gain
a unique copy of the data.
That can be a expensive although unneeded operation.
In order to assist the developer a copyAsConst function is added.
copyAsConst returns a const copy of the object.
For lvalues just use qAsConst. It's only available on Qt 5.7.0. But we
added also for earlier versions. The developer can always use qAsConst.
Intended uses:
QString s = ...;
for (const auto &ch : qAsConst(s))
process(ch);
for (const auto &ch : copyAsConst(funcReturningQString()))
process(ch);
It prevents detachments:
To illustrate:
QMap<QString, QString> map;
/* code compiles and works fine but find() returns the non-const
QMap::iterator that detaches!
*/
QMap<QString, QString>::const_iterator it = map.find("girish");
but also some subtle bugs:
QHash<int, int> wrong;
if (wrong.find(1) == wrong.cend()) {
qDebug() << "Not found";
} else {
/* find() detached the container before cend() was called, so it
prints "Found"
*/
qDebug() << "Found";
}
QHash<int, int> right;
if (right.constFind(1) == right.cend()) {
qDebug() << "Not found"; // This is correct now !
} else {
qDebug() << "Found";
}
Enforced by QT_STRICT_ITERATORS definition.
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