[Qt-creator] Generating .qmltypes files

[Jakub Narolewski]

Hello,

I recently wanted to generate .qmltypes files for my QML plugins to get syntax suggestions for them but got stuck on Creator's error.
I have a plugin named IzLibrary. It resides in its import folder - "IzLibrary". In it I have:

1. qmldir file
2. IzLibraryPlugin.dll file
3. [hopefully] properly generated izlibrary.qmltypes file

Contents of the qmldir are:
// file start
module IzLibrary
plugin IzLibraryPlugin
typeinfo izlibrary.qmltypes
classname IzQMLComponents
IzToast 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzToast.js
IzMark 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzMark.js
IzBusy 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzBusy.js
// file end

To generate izlibrary.qmltypes file I used:
qmlplugindump IzLibrary 1.0 ./ > ./IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes

// file start
This command generates, what I think is, a proper .qmltypes file:
import QtQuick.tooling 1.2

// This file describes the plugin-supplied types contained in the library.
// It is used for QML tooling purposes only.
//
// This file was auto-generated by:
// 'qmlplugindump IzLibrary 1.0 ./'

Module {
dependencies: []
Component {
name: "QDoubleValidator"
prototype: "QValidator"
exports: ["IzDoubleValidator 1.0"]
exportMetaObjectRevisions: [0]

[~here be 4000 more lines of similar stuff~]

}
}
// file end

But under QtCreator 4.6, in General Messages tab, I get:
Warnings while parsing QML type information of C:/Users/jakubn/Documents/projekty/qt-projects/deploy/plugins/release/5.9.4/msvc/x86/IzLibrary:
Failed to parse "C:/Users/jakubn/Documents/projekty/qt-projects/deploy/plugins/release/5.9.4/msvc/x86/IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes".
Error: 1:1: Expected token "numeric literal".
QML module does not contain information about components contained in plugins.

Is there something I did wrong? I have a feeling I missed something really trivial.

Jakub Narolewski

[Thomas Hartmann]

Hi,


try qmlplugindump -nonrelocatable IzLibrary 1.0 ./IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes.

The -nonrelocatable is at least required for the qmltypes to properly work.


But the parsing error you get seems weird since the file should be syntactically correct in any case.


Kind Regards,

Thomas Hartmann

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Subject: [Qt-creator] Generating .qmltypes files

Hello,

I recently wanted to generate .qmltypes files for my QML plugins to get syntax suggestions for them but got stuck on Creator's error.
I have a plugin named IzLibrary. It resides in its import folder - "IzLibrary". In it I have:

1. qmldir file
2. IzLibraryPlugin.dll file
3. [hopefully] properly generated izlibrary.qmltypes file

Contents of the qmldir are:
// file start
module IzLibrary
plugin IzLibraryPlugin
typeinfo izlibrary.qmltypes
classname IzQMLComponents
IzToast 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzToast.js
IzMark 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzMark.js
IzBusy 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzBusy.js
// file end

To generate izlibrary.qmltypes file I used:
qmlplugindump IzLibrary 1.0 ./ > ./IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes

// file start
This command generates, what I think is, a proper .qmltypes file:
import QtQuick.tooling 1.2

// This file describes the plugin-supplied types contained in the library.
// It is used for QML tooling purposes only.
//
// This file was auto-generated by:
// 'qmlplugindump IzLibrary 1.0 ./'

Module {
dependencies: []
Component {
name: "QDoubleValidator"
prototype: "QValidator"
exports: ["IzDoubleValidator 1.0"]
exportMetaObjectRevisions: [0]

[~here be 4000 more lines of similar stuff~]

}
}
// file end

But under QtCreator 4.6, in General Messages tab, I get:
Warnings while parsing QML type information of C:/Users/jakubn/Documents/projekty/qt-projects/deploy/plugins/release/5.9.4/msvc/x86/IzLibrary:
Failed to parse "C:/Users/jakubn/Documents/projekty/qt-projects/deploy/plugins/release/5.9.4/msvc/x86/IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes".
Error: 1:1: Expected token "numeric literal".
QML module does not contain information about components contained in plugins.

Is there something I did wrong? I have a feeling I missed something really trivial.

Jakub Narolewski

[Narolewski Jakub]

As they usually say, if it isn't DNS it's probably encoding :p

I work under Windows and to generate .qmltypes I have used powershell and
operator '>' to redirect output to file.

When I opened the file in notepad++ I saw that it has 'UCS-2 LE BOM' as its
encoding.

When I manually resaved it as UTF-8 Creator stopped giving me errors and
syntax highlighting started to work :]

Thank you for your help,
Jakub Narolewski

Post by Thomas Hartmann
Hi,
try qmlplugindump -nonrelocatable IzLibrary 1.0
./IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes.
The -nonrelocatable is at least required for the qmltypes to properly work.
But the parsing error you get seems weird since the file should be
syntactically correct in any case.
Kind Regards,
Thomas Hartmann
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*From:* Qt-creator <qt-creator-bounces+thomas.hartmann=
*Sent:* Monday, April 16, 2018 2:14:24 PM
*Subject:* [Qt-creator] Generating .qmltypes files
Hello,
I recently wanted to generate .qmltypes files for my QML plugins to get
syntax suggestions for them but got stuck on Creator's error.
I have a plugin named IzLibrary. It resides in its import folder -
1. qmldir file
2. IzLibraryPlugin.dll file
3. [hopefully] properly generated izlibrary.qmltypes file
// file start
module IzLibrary
plugin IzLibraryPlugin
typeinfo izlibrary.qmltypes
classname IzQMLComponents
IzToast 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzToast.js
IzMark 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzMark.js
IzBusy 1.0 qrc:///src/JS/IzBusy.js
// file end
qmlplugindump IzLibrary 1.0 ./ > ./IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes
// file start
import QtQuick.tooling 1.2
// This file describes the plugin-supplied types contained in the library.
// It is used for QML tooling purposes only.
//
// 'qmlplugindump IzLibrary 1.0 ./'
Module {
dependencies: []
Component {
name: "QDoubleValidator"
prototype: "QValidator"
exports: ["IzDoubleValidator 1.0"]
exportMetaObjectRevisions: [0]
[~here be 4000 more lines of similar stuff~]
}
}
// file end
Warnings while parsing QML type information of
Failed to parse
"C:/Users/jakubn/Documents/projekty/qt-projects/deploy/plugins/release/5.9.4/msvc/x86/IzLibrary/izlibrary.qmltypes".
Error: 1:1: Expected token "numeric literal".
QML module does not contain information about components contained in plugins.
Is there something I did wrong? I have a feeling I missed something really trivial.
Jakub Narolewski