Am Freitag, den 13.01.2012, 13:00 +0000 schrieb Giuseppe D'Angelo: > On 13 January 2012 12:32, Mathias Hasselmann <math...@openismus.com> wrote: > >> what about the slightly more garden-variety approach of deprecating > >> the old one and introducing a new method? > > > > Maybe we should check the premise of this discussion first. > > Does that method really have the wrong name? It is called > > "createRequest" and after all it causes creation of a network request. > > Now this network request is just an internal object, and not exposed to > > the API user. Instead the watchable reply object is returned in advance. > > The problem is that it doesn't match the Qt namings for the relevant > classes... createRequest takes a QNetworkRequest (which is a > "description" of the request that should be made), starts making the > underlying network request as you described, but then also creates and > returns a reply (QNetworkReply). Bikeshedding?
Surely startRequest() would have been a better name. But really not sure it is worth the hassle of changing it. Still Robins suggestions shows a practical approach. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Hasselmann <math...@openismus.com> http://openismus.com/ _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development