Remove constructors taking implicit string sizes

Constructors taking explicit sizes got a default -1 size argument that
triggers length calculation from nul-terminated strings.

This imposes a slight change in behavior: negative size arguments would
previously be ignored and generate an empty string whereas with this
patch we expect to see a nul-terminated string.

On the other hand, keeping the previous behavior could effectively hide
errors in user code and I can't find a good reason to support it.

Documentation for the constructors was updated and made more consistent
between the classes.

Change-Id: I738ac3298cffe3221c8a56e85ba2102623e7b67d
Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@nokia.com>

dist/changes-5.0.0

@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ information about a particular change.
 - QCoreApplication::translate() will no longer return the source text when
   the translation is empty. Use lrelease -removeidentical for optimization.
 
+- QString and QByteArray constructors that take a size argument will now treat
+  negative sizes to indicate nul-terminated strings (a nul-terminated array of
+  QChar, in the case of QString). In Qt 4, negative sizes were ignored and
+  result in empty QString and QByteArray, respectively. The size argument to
+  those constructors now has a default value of -1, thus replacing the separate
+  constructors that did the same.
+
 - Qt::escape() is deprecated (but can be enabled via
   QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE), use QString::toHtmlEscaped() instead.
 

src/corelib/tools/qbytearray.cpp

@@ -1287,38 +1287,16 @@ void QByteArray::chop(int n)
     \sa isEmpty()
 */
 
-/*! \fn QByteArray::QByteArray(const char *str)
-
-    Constructs a byte array initialized with the string \a str.
-
-    QByteArray makes a deep copy of the string data.
-*/
-
-QByteArray::QByteArray(const char *str)
-{
-    if (!str) {
-        d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_null.ba);
-    } else if (!*str) {
-        d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_empty.ba);
-    } else {
-        int len = qstrlen(str);
-        d = static_cast<Data *>(malloc(sizeof(Data) + len + 1));
-        Q_CHECK_PTR(d);
-        d->ref.initializeOwned();
-        d->size = len;
-        d->alloc = len;
-        d->capacityReserved = false;
-        d->offset = 0;
-        memcpy(d->data(), str, len+1); // include null terminator
-    }
-}
-
 /*!
     Constructs a byte array containing the first \a size bytes of
     array \a data.
 
     If \a data is 0, a null byte array is constructed.
 
+    If \a size is negative, \a data is assumed to point to a nul-terminated
+    string and its length is determined dynamically. The terminating
+    nul-character is not considered part of the byte array.
+
     QByteArray makes a deep copy of the string data.
 
     \sa fromRawData()
@@ -1328,18 +1306,22 @@ QByteArray::QByteArray(const char *data, int size)
 {
     if (!data) {
         d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_null.ba);
-    } else if (size <= 0) {
-        d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_empty.ba);
     } else {
-        d = static_cast<Data *>(malloc(sizeof(Data) + size + 1));
-        Q_CHECK_PTR(d);
-        d->ref.initializeOwned();
-        d->size = size;
-        d->alloc = size;
-        d->capacityReserved = false;
-        d->offset = 0;
-        memcpy(d->data(), data, size);
-        d->data()[size] = '\0';
+        if (size < 0)
+            size = strlen(data);
+        if (!size) {
+            d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_empty.ba);
+        } else {
+            d = static_cast<Data *>(malloc(sizeof(Data) + size + 1));
+            Q_CHECK_PTR(d);
+            d->ref.initializeOwned();
+            d->size = size;
+            d->alloc = size;
+            d->capacityReserved = false;
+            d->offset = 0;
+            memcpy(d->data(), data, size);
+            d->data()[size] = '\0';
+        }
     }
 }
 

src/corelib/tools/qbytearray.h

@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ private:
 
 public:
     inline QByteArray();
-    QByteArray(const char *);
-    QByteArray(const char *, int size);
+    QByteArray(const char *, int size = -1);
     QByteArray(int size, char c);
     QByteArray(int size, Qt::Initialization);
     inline QByteArray(const QByteArray &);

src/corelib/tools/qstring.cpp

@@ -1022,62 +1022,43 @@ int QString::toUcs4_helper(const ushort *uc, int length, uint *out)
     Constructs a string initialized with the first \a size characters
     of the QChar array \a unicode.
 
+    If \a unicode is 0, a null string is constructed.
+
+    If \a size is negative, \a unicode is assumed to point to a nul-terminated
+    array and its length is determined dynamically. The terminating
+    nul-character is not considered part of the string.
+
     QString makes a deep copy of the string data. The unicode data is copied as
     is and the Byte Order Mark is preserved if present.
+
+    \sa fromRawData()
 */
 QString::QString(const QChar *unicode, int size)
 {
    if (!unicode) {
         d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_null.str);
-    } else if (size <= 0) {
-        d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_empty.str);
     } else {
-        d = (Data*) ::malloc(sizeof(Data)+(size+1)*sizeof(QChar));
-        Q_CHECK_PTR(d);
-        d->ref.initializeOwned();
-        d->size = size;
-        d->alloc = (uint) size;
-        d->capacityReserved = false;
-        d->offset = 0;
-        memcpy(d->data(), unicode, size * sizeof(QChar));
-        d->data()[size] = '\0';
+        if (size < 0) {
+            size = 0;
+            while (unicode[size] != 0)
+                ++size;
+        }
+        if (!size) {
+            d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_empty.str);
+        } else {
+            d = (Data*) ::malloc(sizeof(Data)+(size+1)*sizeof(QChar));
+            Q_CHECK_PTR(d);
+            d->ref.initializeOwned();
+            d->size = size;
+            d->alloc = (uint) size;
+            d->capacityReserved = false;
+            d->offset = 0;
+            memcpy(d->data(), unicode, size * sizeof(QChar));
+            d->data()[size] = '\0';
+        }
     }
 }
 
-/*!
-    \since 4.7
-
-    Constructs a string initialized with the characters of the QChar array
-    \a unicode, which must be terminated with a 0.
-
-    QString makes a deep copy of the string data. The unicode data is copied as
-    is and the Byte Order Mark is preserved if present.
-*/
-QString::QString(const QChar *unicode)
-{
-     if (!unicode) {
-         d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_null.str);
-     } else {
-         int size = 0;
-         while (unicode[size] != 0)
-             ++size;
-         if (!size) {
-             d = const_cast<Data *>(&shared_empty.str);
-         } else {
-             d = (Data*) ::malloc(sizeof(Data)+(size+1)*sizeof(QChar));
-             Q_CHECK_PTR(d);
-             d->ref.initializeOwned();
-             d->size = size;
-             d->alloc = (uint) size;
-             d->capacityReserved = false;
-             d->offset = 0;
-             memcpy(d->data(), unicode, size * sizeof(QChar));
-             d->data()[size] = '\0';
-         }
-     }
-}
-
-
 /*!
     Constructs a string of the given \a size with every character set
     to \a ch.

src/corelib/tools/qstring.h

@@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ public:
     typedef QStringData Data;
 
     inline QString();
-    QString(const QChar *unicode, int size); // Qt5: don't cap size < 0
-    explicit QString(const QChar *unicode); // Qt5: merge with the above
+    explicit QString(const QChar *unicode, int size = -1);
     QString(QChar c);
     QString(int size, QChar c);
     inline QString(const QLatin1String &latin1);