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- Qt 5.15.18 Reference Documentation

# QAssociativeIterable Class

The QAssociativeIterable class is an iterable interface for an associative container in a QVariant. More...

Header: | #include <QAssociativeIterable>
qmake: | QT += core
Since: | Qt 5.2

This class was introduced in Qt 5.2.

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## Public Types

struct | const_iterator

## Public Functions

const_iterator | begin() const
const_iterator | end() const
const_iterator | find(const QVariant &key) const
int | size() const
QVariant | value(const QVariant &key) const

## Detailed Description

This class allows several methods of accessing the elements of an associative container held within a QVariant. An instance of QAssociativeIterable can be extracted from a QVariant if it can be converted to a QVariantHash or QVariantMap.

     QHash<int, QString> mapping;
     mapping.insert(7, "Seven");
     mapping.insert(11, "Eleven");
     mapping.insert(42, "Forty-two");

     QVariant variant = QVariant::fromValue(mapping);
     if (variant.canConvert<QVariantHash>()) {
         QAssociativeIterable iterable = variant.value<QAssociativeIterable>();
         // Can use foreach over the values:
         foreach (const QVariant &v, iterable) {
             qDebug() << v;
         }
         // Can use C++11 range-for over the values:
         for (const QVariant &v : iterable) {
             qDebug() << v;
         }
         // Can use iterators:
         QAssociativeIterable::const_iterator it = iterable.begin();
         const QAssociativeIterable::const_iterator end = iterable.end();
         for ( ; it != end; ++it) {
             qDebug() << *it; // The current value
             qDebug() << it.key();
             qDebug() << it.value();
         }
     }

The container itself is not copied before iterating over it.

See also QVariant.

## Member Function Documentation

### const_iterator QAssociativeIterable::begin() const

Returns a QAssociativeIterable::const_iterator for the beginning of the container. This can be used in stl-style iteration.

See also end().

### const_iterator QAssociativeIterable::end() const

Returns a QAssociativeIterable::const_iterator for the end of the container. This can be used in stl-style iteration.

See also begin().

### const_iterator QAssociativeIterable::find(const QVariant &key) const

Returns a QAssociativeIterable::const_iterator for the given key key in the container, if the types are convertible.

If the key is not found, returns end().

This can be used in stl-style iteration.

This function was introduced in Qt 5.5.

See also begin(), end(), and value().

### int QAssociativeIterable::size() const

Returns the number of elements in the container.

### QVariant QAssociativeIterable::value(const QVariant &key) const

Returns the value for the given key in the container, if the types are convertible.

See also find().