QRegularExpression::match (and globalMatch) is currently overloaded
for QString and QStringView. This creates a subtle API asymmetry:
QRegularExpression re;
auto m1 = re.match(getQString()); // OK
auto m2 = re.match(getStdU16String()); // Dangling
This goes against our decision that every time that there's a possible
lifetime issue at play, it should be "evident". Solving the lifetime
issue here is possible, but tricky -- since QRegularExpression
is out-of-line, one needs a type-erased container for the input
string (basically, std::any) to keep it alive and so on.
Instead I went for the simpler solution: deprecate match(QStringView)
and introduce matchView(QStringView) (same for globalMatch). This
makes it clear that the call is matching over a view and therefore
users are supposed to keep the source object alive.
Drive-by, remove the documentation that says that the QString
overloads might not keep the string alive: they do and forever will.
[ChangeLog][QtCore][QRegularExpression] Added the matchView()
and globalMatchView() functions that operate on string views.
The match(QStringView) and globalMatch(QStringView) overloads
have been deprecated.
Change-Id: I054b8605c2fdea59b556dcfea8920ef4eee78ee9
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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