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? -- Giuseppe D'Angelo _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development