Hi, I'm wondering, whether there are some people interested in seeing (even basic) web service communication functionality in Qt5? I think that with Qt5 being heavily QML (and thus, mobile) oriented, some easy way to call web methods, without using 3rd party libs, is needed. Currently, a lot of apps do require frequent Internet communication (to mention one use case: stock exachnge readers) with WSes. Even a simple implementation, capable of getting the result fast, without subclassing anything, would be nice, IMO. At the same time, it will leave more complicated issues to well established packages, like GSOAP.
Now, to the main point: a couple of months ago I'v started developing a project, which aim is to provide Qt devs with the ability to communicate with web services. At that time, there was (and still is) GSOAP, but it was not made "the Qt way", was IMO too complicated and not terribly intuitive. There also was QSoap, which was more Qt-oriented, but AFAIK had some issues, and was not recommended. Later on, while I was already hacking on my project, I've learned about KDAB's KD Soap - which looks much better than any mentioned above, and is definitely more advanced than my QWebService ( https://gitorious.org/qwebservice). In QWebService, I have focused on making it intuitive, heavily Qt-based (actually, there are no external dependencies. Communication is made using QNAM, XML parsing - Qt XML module, everything is QDoc docummented). It can be used both out-of-the-box, using generic classes, or by subclassing. An automatic code generator is also included, it can take bot external URL, or local file path to WSDL file. I'm currently developing it alone, but if anybody is interested, feel invited to join me :) Most of the functionality is already there, but there's still a lot room for improvements. I'm not saying my solution has to make it into Qt, I'm perfectly fine to go with any that will suit Qt developers' needs. I just want to raise the subject here, since we still have a lot of time before Qt5 comes out, there is some good stuff out there almost ready to be included, and, as I've said - I think it's needed. What is your view here? Do we need it inside Qt, or are we sticking to current necessity to use 3rd party stuff? Cheers sierdzio
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