Recursively iterate over all the files in a directory and its subdirectories in Qt

Question

I want to recursively scan a directory and all its sub-directories for files with a given extension - for example, all *.jpg files. How can you do that in Qt?

Answer 1

I used QDirIterator.

Here's how I do it and how simple it was to find all XML absolute file paths recursively very fast (Qt4.8.1):

// used to store the file paths
filesStack = new QStack();

// I use a file dialog to let the user choose the root folder to search in
if (fileDialog->exec() == QFileDialog::Accepted) {
    QDir selectedDir(fileDialog->selectedFiles().first());
    selectedDir.setFilter(QDir::Files |
                          QDir::Dirs | QDir::NoDot | QDir::NoDotDot);
    QStringList qsl; qsl.append("*.xml"); // I only want XML files
    selectedDir.setNameFilters(qsl);
    findFilesRecursively(selectedDir);
}

// this function stores the absolute paths of each file in a QVector
void findFilesRecursively(QDir rootDir) {
    QDirIterator it(rootDir, QDirIterator::Subdirectories);
    while(it.hasNext()) {
        filesStack->push(it.next());
    }
}

Thanks to everyone for the hints.

EDIT: I may have omitted some declarations, beware.