QML Global Object

Contains all the properties of the JavaScript global object, plus:

Qt Object

The Qt object provides useful enums and functions from Qt, for use in all QML files.

XMLHttpRequest

QML script supports the XMLHttpRequest object, which can be used to asynchronously obtain data from over a network.

The XMLHttpRequest API implements the same W3C standard as many popular web browsers with following exceptions:

• QML's XMLHttpRequest does not enforce the same origin policty.
• QML's XMLHttpRequest does not support synchronous requests.

Additionally, the responseXML XML DOM tree currently supported by QML is a reduced subset of the DOM Level 3 Core API supported in a web browser. The following objects and properties are supported by the QML implementation:

Node	Document	Element	Attr	CharacterData	Text
nodeName nodeValue nodeType parentNode childNodes firstChild lastChild previousSibling nextSibling attribtes	xmlVersion xmlEncoding xmlStandalone documentElement	tagName	name value ownerElement	data length	isElementContentWhitespace wholeText

The XMLHttpRequest example demonstrates how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to make a request and read the response headers.

Offline Storage API

Database API

The openDatabaseSync() and related functions provide the ability to access local offline storage in an SQL database.

These databases are user-specific and QML-specific, but accessible to all QML applications. They are stored in the Databases subdirectory of QDeclarativeEngine::offlineStoragePath(), currently as SQLite databases.

The API can be used from JavaScript functions in your QML:

 import Qt 4.7

 Rectangle {
     color: "white"
     width: 200
     height: 100

     Text {
         text: "?"
         anchors.horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
         function findGreetings() {
             var db = openDatabaseSync("QDeclarativeExampleDB", "1.0", "The Example QML SQL!", 1000000);

             db.transaction(
                 function(tx) {
                     // Create the database if it doesn't already exist
                     tx.executeSql('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS Greeting(salutation TEXT, salutee TEXT)');

                     // Add (another) greeting row
                     tx.executeSql('INSERT INTO Greeting VALUES(?, ?)', [ 'hello', 'world' ]);

                     // Show all added greetings
                     var rs = tx.executeSql('SELECT * FROM Greeting');

                     var r = ""
                     for(var i = 0; i < rs.rows.length; i++) {
                         r += rs.rows.item(i).salutation + ", " + rs.rows.item(i).salutee + "\n"
                     }
                     text = r
                 }
             )
         }

         Component.onCompleted: findGreetings()
     }
 }

The API conforms to the Synchronous API of the HTML5 Web Database API, W3C Working Draft 29 October 2009.

The SQL Local Storage example demonstrates the basics of using the Offline Storage API.

db = openDatabaseSync(identifier, version, description, estimated_size, callback(db))

Returns the database identified by identifier. If the database does not already exist, it is created with the properties description and estimated_size and the function callback is called with the database as a parameter.

May throw exception with code property SQLException.DATABASE_ERR, or SQLException.VERSION_ERR.

When a database is first created, an INI file is also created specifying its characteristics:

Key	Value
Name	The name of the database passed to openDatabase()
Version	The version of the database passed to openDatabase()
Description	The description of the database passed to openDatabase()
EstimatedSize	The estimated size of the database passed to openDatabase()
Driver	Currently "QSQLITE"

This data can be used by application tools.

db.changeVersion(from, to, callback(tx))

This method allows you to perform a Scheme Upgrade.

If the current version of db is not from, then an exception is thrown.

Otherwise, a database transaction is created and passed to callback. In this function, you can call executeSql on tx to upgrade the database.

May throw exception with code property SQLException.DATABASE_ERR or SQLException.UNKNOWN_ERR.

db.transaction(callback(tx))

This method creates a read/write transaction and passed to callback. In this function, you can call executeSql on tx to read and modify the database.

If the callback throws exceptions, the transaction is rolled back.

db.readTransaction(callback(tx))

This method creates a read-only transaction and passed to callback. In this function, you can call executeSql on tx to read the database (with SELECT statements).

results = tx.executeSql(statement, values)

This method executes a SQL statement, binding the list of values to SQL positional parameters ("?").

It returns a results object, with the following properties:

Type	Property	Value	Applicability
int	rows.length	The number of rows in the result	SELECT
var	rows.item(i)	Function that returns row i of the result	SELECT
int	rowsAffected	The number of rows affected by a modification	UPDATE, DELETE
string	insertId	The id of the row inserted	INSERT

May throw exception with code property SQLException.DATABASE_ERR, SQLException.SYNTAX_ERR, or SQLException.UNKNOWN_ERR.

Logging

console.log() and console.debug() can be used to print information to the console. See Debugging QML for more information.