How to decode “application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist” in Qt for drag and drop?

Question

I\'ve created a child class of QTreeWidget that I want to be able to drag items from another tree widget too (I want to handle the insertion myself though), as well as from

Answer 1

Looks like you can use QStandardItemModel to decode the data and get an item back out. Don't know if this is the best way to do it though:

  model = QStandardItemModel()
  model.dropMimeData(event.mimeData(), Qt.CopyAction, 0,0, QModelIndex())

Then you can use the item() method from model to retrieve the item and handle it however you want.

Answer 2

In PySide2 this works for me

def dropEvent(self, event):
    if event.mimeData().hasFormat('application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist'):
        data = event.mimeData()
        source_item = QtGui.QStandardItemModel()
        source_item.dropMimeData(data, QtCore.Qt.CopyAction, 0,0, QtCore.QModelIndex())
        print(source_item.item(0, 0).text()) 

Answer 3

You can decode it as follows:

QByteArray encoded = qMimeData->data("application/x-qabstractitemmodeldatalist");
QDataStream stream(&encoded, QIODevice::ReadOnly);

while (!stream.atEnd())
{
    int row, col;
    QMap<int,  QVariant> roleDataMap;
    stream >> row >> col >> roleDataMap;

    /* do something with the data */
}

The QMap<int, QVariant> is what is returned by QAbstractItemModel::itemData(index) for the index representing (row, col).