I've been working on some networking code recently and I got very frustrated
with not being able to see the IP and MAC addresses in QHostAddress and
QNetworkInterface whilst debugging in Visual Studio. After a bit of
experimentation I was able to add viewers for these classes to autoexp.dat and
I've posted these below. But the problem I had is that these classes follow the
Pimpl Idiom, so it's impossible for Visual Studio to be able to see the members
of the classes in order to display the values. I had to look into the
implementation of the private part of the classes then use byte shuffling in
autoexp.dat to display them. This means that if the layout of the classes ever
changes this method will display the wrong data, which is why I'm not sure if
it's a good idea to add this to the Visual Studio Add-In installer. However, if
anyone wants to do this then go ahead.
I understand why the Pimpl Idiom is being used here, but I'm wondering if it's
actually necessary. It's intended for when the source code of the
implementation isn't available so internal variables and function names can be
completely hidden. But in the case of Qt, where the source code is available
and can even be used to build your own binaries, it seems excessive. It also
means that useful displays of debugging data aren't really possible and you
have to resort to what I've done below.
Can I suggest that going forward the Pimpl Idiom is dropped and we go back to
just using private member variables and functions to prevent them being called
from outside the class? Or is there some alternative that would allow VS to see
the layout it needs?
QHostAddress|*::QHostAddress{
preview
(
#(
#if (*((quint32 *)$e.d.d) != 0) (
#("IPv4=", [*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 3), u],
".", [*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 2), u],
".", [*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 1), u],
".", [*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0), u])
) #elif ((*(((quint32 *)$e.d.d) + 1)) + (*(((quint32 *)$e.d.d) +
2)) + (*(((quint32 *)$e.d.d) + 3)) + (*(((quint32 *)$e.d.d) + 4)) != 0) (
#("IPv6=",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x04) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x05))), x],
".",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x06) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x07))), x],
".",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x08) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x09))), x],
".",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x0A) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x0B))), x],
".",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x0C) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x0D))), x],
".",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x0E) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x0F))), x],
".",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x10) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x11))), x],
".",
[(quint16)((*(((quint8 *)$e.d.d) + 0x12) << 0x8) | (*(((quint8
*)$e.d.d) + 0x13))), x])
)
)
)
children
(
#(
[d]: [$c.d.d, x]
)
)
}
QNetworkInterface|*::QNetworkInterface{
preview
(
#(
[(QString *)(((quint32 *)$e.d.d) + 0x4)]
)
)
children
(
#(
[d]: [$c.d.d, x],
[QSharedData]: [*(((quint32 *)$c.d.d) + 0x0), u],
[index]: [*(((quint32 *)$c.d.d) + 0x1), u],
[flags.i]: [*(((quint32 *)$c.d.d) + 0x2), u],
[name]: [(QString *)(((quint32 *)$c.d.d) + 0x3)],
[friendlyName]: [(QString *)(((quint32 *)$c.d.d) + 0x4)],
[hardwareAddress]: [(QString *)(((quint32 *)$c.d.d) + 0x5)]
)
)
}
TOM ISAACSON | SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER | NAVICO ASIA PACIFIC
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