Multithreading & GUI

[qthread]

It will not affect your GUI.


You are probably not running an event loop in that thread.


Sure, just state what the actual task is

I am new to qt. I am not able to find any good resource in multithreading. I just want to do fuzzing on web applictions which i was assigned to do testing.

Here is exactly what i wanted:
I need to send more than 1000 or 10,000 requests to a web application without affecting the GUI(i tried to run 10,000 request in main thread, it's affecting the gui, not able to access any other items). so i wanted to run the QNAM &loop in a separate thread or any other way in such a way that it should not affect the other tasks. Can you give me a sample snippet or tutorial links to achieve this

Thank you

[anda_skoa]

One way to do it is to have a worker object and move it to a QThread

Worker *worker = new Worker(); // class derived from QObject
 
QThread *thread = new QThread();
worker->moveToThread(thread);
connect(thread, SIGNAL(started()), worker, SLOT(start())); // Worker needs a slot that start the work
thread->start();

Worker *worker = new Worker(); // class derived from QObject

QThread *thread = new QThread();
worker->moveToThread(thread);
connect(thread, SIGNAL(started()), worker, SLOT(start())); // Worker needs a slot that start the work
thread->start();

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Cheers,
_

[qthread]

One way to do it is to have a worker object and move it to a QThread

Worker *worker = new Worker(); // class derived from QObject
 
QThread *thread = new QThread();
worker->moveToThread(thread);
connect(thread, SIGNAL(started()), worker, SLOT(start())); // Worker needs a slot that start the work
thread->start();

Worker *worker = new Worker(); // class derived from QObject

QThread *thread = new QThread();
worker->moveToThread(thread);
connect(thread, SIGNAL(started()), worker, SLOT(start())); // Worker needs a slot that start the work
thread->start();

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Cheers,
_

Thanks it worked for me

How can i distinguish the responses?! I'm sending 1000 requests.
I can use response->request().url() function to get the corresponding url. However i want to set a unique number for each request and display along with corresponding response. How to do that in QNAM?

[anda_skoa]

One option would be to have a mapping from the QNetworkReply pointer to your reference data, e.g. using QHash.

In your case where you only need a single number, it is probably quicker to just set this value as a dynamic property on the QNetworkReply object.
See QObject::setProperty().

Cheers,
_

[wysota]

Just remember that QNetworkReply is a QIODevice which in turn is a QObject thus accessing it from more than one thread is not safe. Push the object to the main thread before you try accessing it. The original thread will probably not try accessing the object after finished() is emitted but it is better to be safe than sorry.

Which of course doesn't negate the fact that there is probably no point in using any extra threads here..

[qthread]

I will be thankful if anyone give me a sample snippet to distinguish each QNAM response from others

[anda_skoa]

Each request is handled by a QNetworkReply object. So each request has a different, distinguishable, pointer to a QNetworkReply instance.
Each instance has the QNetworkRequest that it was created for.

void MyClass::networkRequestFinished(QNetworkReply *reply)
{
    qDebug() << "Request for" << reply->request().url() << "finished"  << (reply->error() != QNetworkReply::NoError ? "with an error" : "without error");
}

void MyClass::networkRequestFinished(QNetworkReply *reply)
{
    qDebug() << "Request for" << reply->request().url() << "finished"  << (reply->error() != QNetworkReply::NoError ? "with an error" : "without error");
}

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[qthread]

Thanks is it possible to pass a unique value to QNAM and access them via QNetworkReply other than URL ?!

[wysota]

Thanks is it possible to pass a unique value to QNAM and access them via QNetworkReply other than URL ?!

What kind of unique value?

[qthread]

What kind of unique value?

Strings. for example hello1, hello2

[wysota]

Strings. for example hello1, hello2

I was rather asking for the reason and meaning of those values rather than their datatype.

[anda_skoa]

Thanks is it possible to pass a unique value to QNAM and access them via QNetworkReply other than URL ?!

QNetworkReply is a QObject derived class, you can set any value as a dynamic property.
See QObject::setProperty.

Cheers,
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