Image extension fails to notify of source changes

[Olivier Tilloy]

When importing Ubuntu.Components, the base Image QML type is enhanced (with the UCQQuickImageExtension class) to add transparent support for scaling assets.

This breaks the emission of the sourceChanged signal. Application developers cannot implement the onSourceChanged slot to be notified of changes to the value of the 'source' property, and this isn’t documented anywhere.

Another issue I’m observing with this custom extension is that an image is not reloaded if I do the following, and invoke the reload() function on the image (this works if I comment out the import of Ubuntu.Components):

    Image {
        cache: false
        function reload() {
            var s = source
            source = ""
            source = s
        }
    }

Similarly (and maybe even more worrying), actually changing the value of the source property (by appending a fragment to the URL) doesn’t trigger a reload either, as demonstrated by the attached example (requires a random image named "test.jpg" in the same folder).

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The bug still exists with the latest vivid-proposed as of today.

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

I checked the issue with .svg and .jpg images, they both seem to work. sourceChanged() signal is emitted and the source is changed accordingly.

I have tested with QtQuick 2.4 and UITK 1.3.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Please test again. Just open the attached QML file in qmlscene (ensure that there is a test.jpg image in the same directory), and verify that nothing is being printed out to the console. If you comment out the import of Ubuntu.Components, you get logs for source changed and status changed every second.

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

Indeed, the sourtceChanged() comes when the toolkit import is removed. However the Image is not unloaded, even though the source doesn't exist.

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

Ok, so the source you gave is a pretty invalid one, the QQuickImageBase - without the toolkit extension - reports that the source had changed, and changes the url, but the actual image is never changed/unloaded, because they also do QQmlFile::urlToLocalFileOrQrc(url), which will cut the #1450427565454 from the end.

In our case, we call this method way before we pass the given url to the QQuickImageBase, therefore the source change does not happen.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The source with a fragment is not invalid: since it’s a URL, when converting to a local file name the fragment should be removed, but that doesn’t make the URL invalid.
This fragment trick is typically used to ensure an image is reloaded without changing the actual file path.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit 1.3.1795+15.04.20160106-0ubuntu1 in https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/stable-phone-overlay

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.1795+15.04.20160106-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

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