📰 TextFile

The TextFile object provides an interface for reading from and writing to text files. This object goal isn’t to do complex file manipulation, but simple write/read of strings. For example reading or writing a json file.

Open Mode

Properties

• fileUrl: Readonly file url. It can be modified with open() function.
• isOpen: True when the file is opened, false otherwise.
• fileName: Filename without extension
• fileType: Extension of the file.
• error: Readable last error.

Functions

bool open(url, mode): open the file at url with mode. Url can be absolute or relative.

• file:foo.txt, foo.txt are relative
• file:/foo.txt, /foo.txt are absolute.

bool close(): Close the file. If file is in write mode, then the text is really committed to the disk.

bool write(string): Append a string in the file.

string readAll(): Read all the file and return the content in a string.

✍️ Write text

To write to a file:

• Open the file with open(url, Qaterial.TextFile.Write).
• Write text with write(string).
• Close the file with close().

import QtQuick 2.0
import Qaterial 1.0 as Qaterial

Qaterial.FlatButton
{
  text: "Write text to file"

  onClicked: function()
  {
    textFile.open('foo.txt', Qaterial.TextFile.Write)
    textFile.write('Some Text')
    textFile.close()
  }

  Qaterial.TextFile
  {
    id: textFile
    onErrorChanged: () => console.warn(`io error : ${error}`)
  }
}

If any of the operation fail, the readable error is available with error property.

📖 Read text

To read a file:

• Open the file with open(url, Qaterial.TextFile.Read).
• Read the content with readAll().
• Close the file with close().

import QtQuick 2.0
import Qaterial 1.0 as Qaterial

Qaterial.FlatButton
{
  text: "Read text from file"

  onClicked: function()
  {
    textFile.open('foo.txt', Qaterial.TextFile.Read)
    const readText = textFile.readAll()
    textFile.close()

    console.log(`read text: ${readText}`)
  }

  Qaterial.TextFile
  {
    id: textFile
    onErrorChanged: () => console.warn(`io error : ${error}`)
  }
}