I already found and edited in an answer below.
I want to return values from python code to javascript context within QtWebKit. So far, I have a class like this:
class Extensions(QtCore.QObject):
@QtCore.pyqtSlot()
def constant_one(self):
return 1;
# ... later, in code
e = Extensions();
def addextensions():
webview.page().mainFrame().addToJavaScriptWindowObject("extensions", e);
# ...
webview.connect(webview.page().mainFrame(), QtCore.SIGNAL("javaScriptWindowObjectCleared"), addextensions)
I can call this function from Javascript like so:
var a = extensions.constant_one();
and it does get called indeed (I verified with a print in there); but a still ends up undefined. Why doesn't a get the value returned from the function? I also tried wrapping a in a QVariant, but no dice so far.
Edit: I found the answer. Apparently, QtWebKit needs the result type as a hint. One can provide that to the pyqtSlot-Decorator, like this:
class Extensions(QtCore.QObject):
@QtCore.pyqtSlot(result="int")
def constant_one(self):
return 1;
and then it works correctly. Leaving this open for another two days, in case someone finds something else I should be doing.