Override link QUrl parsing?

[define-qt]

Hello, I'm using Qt 4.8.7. My application needs to handle web pages with "invalid" URLs. It handles these URLs specially; for example I've already overridden QNetworkAccessManager::createRequest.

The problem is making clickable links work; the HTML <a> tags appear to function at first, but the QUrl returned by linkClicked() is empty. My code works fine with valid URL's but I can't figure out a way to force linkClicked() to return a URL that it doesn't think is valid.

Is there a way around this?

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@define-qt said in Override link QUrl parsing?:

linkClicked

spoiler alert: not that I have work with it...

have you messed around with linkDelegationPolicy as the linkClicked() documentation refers to?

[define-qt]

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[define-qt]

@Pablo-J.-Rogina Yeah, I have it set to delegate all links, which causes it to emit linkClicked. Without that, it's not even clear to me how the links are handled. Unless there's a different way to do it by not delegating the links and overriding a different method?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

What kind of "invalid" URLs do you have? If they contain some random text, your only solution is to handle clicks via JS and do processing there.

[define-qt]

I solved my problem, in that I had neglected to encode some characters that needed to be, so they actually were valid after all. User error.

I never did find a solution for parsing truly invalid URL's.

[Konstantin Tokarev]

As I said above, you can parse truly invalid URLs via custom onclick handler of element

[define-qt]

@Konstantin-Tokarev Sorry, I wasn't ignoring your post. I'm sure that would work, but JS wasn't an option for this particular application.

[Konstantin Tokarev]

JS handler can be added via evaluateJavaScript, and Qt bridge used to provide actual handling via exported QObject

I've considered adding API for C++ event hadlers, but that would require some development effort