[PyQt] segfault when using qml (probably reference counting error)

[Rex Dieter]

On 03/18/2011 03:55 PM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:20:23 +0000, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:54:16 -0500, Rex Dieter<rdieter at math.unl.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Quoting downstream bug report,
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676042
>>>
>>> (Using PyQt-4.8.3)...
>>>
>>> When running some simple PyQt4 + QML apps, a segfault can be produced
>> when
>>> the QML tries to make use of an object that is exposed to it by the
> PyQt
>>
>>> code. Changing the code very slightly so that the PyQt4 code has an
>> extra
>>> reference to the object removes the segfault.  This likely means that a
>
>>> reference to the object is not being created in the PyQt4 declarative
>> code.
>>>
>>> the downstream bug also includes some sample code as a test-case.
>>
>> It's a feature, not a bug...
>>
>> PyQt correctly gives an extra reference to the Stopwatch context object
> to
>> the QDeclarativeContext returned by rootContext() to prevent it being
>> garbage collected. However the QDeclarativeContext Python object (not
> the
>> C++ instance) is itself garbage collected and so the extra reference is
>> then discarded.
>>
>> Therefore you need to keep an explicit reference to the Stopwatch
> instance
>> (as in your workaround), or the value returned by rootContext(), or give
>> the Stopwatch instance a sensible parent.
>
> ...on second thoughts I can make this work. Should be fixed in tonight's
> SIP and PyQt snapshots.

Thanks, yay!

-- Rex