File kstyle-no-dynamic-cast-bnc529640.diff of Package kdelibs4

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r1034808 | lunakl | 2009-10-13 15:34:28 +0000 (Tue, 13 Oct 2009) | 7 lines
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/kernel/kstyle.h

Plugins really shouldn't use dynamic_cast, it breaks without RTLD_GLOBAL
and especially with plugins that is quite likely to happen with 3rd party
apps (e.g. http://bugzilla.novell.com/529640).
And the best I could come up with was playing with typeid().name(), which
works, except for subclassing.


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Index: kdeui/kernel/kstyle.h
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--- kdeui/kernel/kstyle.h	(revision 1034807)
+++ kdeui/kernel/kstyle.h	(revision 1034808)
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include <QtGui/QCommonStyle>
 #include <QtGui/QPalette>
 #include <QtGui/QStylePlugin>
+#include <typeinfo>
 
 class QStyleOptionProgressBar;
 class QStyleOptionTab;
@@ -1578,6 +1579,9 @@
     // fitt's law label support: QLabel focusing its buddy widget
     const QObject *clickedLabel;
 
+    template<typename T>
+    static T extractOptionHelper(T*);
+
 public:
 /** @name QStyle Methods
  * These are methods reimplemented from QStyle. Usually it's not necessary to
@@ -1669,12 +1673,25 @@
     }
 };
 
+// get the pointed-to type from a pointer
+template<typename T>
+T KStyle::extractOptionHelper(T*)
+{
+    return T();
+}
 
 template<typename T>
 T KStyle::extractOption(Option* option)
 {
-    if (option && dynamic_cast<T>(option)) {
-        return static_cast<T>(option);
+    if (option) {
+        if (dynamic_cast<T>(option))
+            return static_cast<T>(option);
+        // Ugly hacks for when RTLD_GLOBAL is not used (quite common with plugins, really)
+        // and dynamic_cast fails.
+        // This is still partially broken as it doesn't take into account subclasses.
+        // ### KDE5 do this somehow differently
+        if ( qstrcmp(typeid(*option).name(), typeid(extractOptionHelper(static_cast<T>(0))).name()) == 0 )
+            return static_cast<T>(option);
     }
 
     //### warn if cast failed?