How to loop over QAbstractItemView indexes?

Question

I want to fire QAbstractItemView::doubleClicked slot programaticaly for an item that has specific text. I want to do this using QAbstractItemView class and not it's implementations if possible.

This task boils down to looping over items and comparing strings. But I cannot find any method that would give me all QModelIndexes. The only method that gives any QModelIndex without parameters is QAbstractItemView::rootIndex. But when I look into QModelIndex docs, I again cannot see a way to access it's children and siblings.

So how to access all QModelIndexes in QAbstractItemView?

Answer 1

The indexes are provided by the model, not by the view. The view provides the rootIndex() to indicate what node in the model it considers as root; it might be an invalid index. Otherwise it has nothing to do with the data. You have to traverse the model itself - you can get it from view->model().

Here's a depth-first walk through a model:

void iterate(const QModelIndex & index, const QAbstractItemModel * model,
             const std::function<void(const QModelIndex&, int)> & fun,
             int depth = 0)
{
    if (index.isValid())
        fun(index, depth);
    if (!model->hasChildren(index) || (index.flags() & Qt::ItemNeverHasChildren)) return;
    auto rows = model->rowCount(index);
    auto cols = model->columnCount(index);
    for (int i = 0; i < rows; ++i)
        for (int j = 0; j < cols; ++j)
            iterate(model->index(i, j, index), model, fun, depth+1);
}

The functor fun gets invoked for every item in the model, starting at root and going in depth-row-column order.

E.g.

void dumpData(QAbstractItemView * view) {
    iterate(view->rootIndex(), view->model(), [](const QModelIndex & idx, int depth){
        qDebug() << depth << ":" << idx.row() << "," << idx.column() << "=" << idx.data();
    });
}