Need help passing data to qml

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Hi i am having difficulty in passing a struct from cpp to qml. Can someone give me some pointers. I am using qt 5.4/64 bit under debian lenny rc1. Here is what i have been working with which was just a new dialog project with the following added. Note the code seems to work if i pass it just a string but not with a simple struct.

my .h

namespace Ui {
class Dialog;
struct MyStruct {
    int i;
    QString name;
};
}
 
Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(Ui::MyStruct)
#endif // DIALOG_H

namespace Ui {
class Dialog;
struct MyStruct {
    int i;
    QString name;
};
}

Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(Ui::MyStruct)
#endif // DIALOG_H

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.cpp file

Dialog::Dialog(QWidget *parent) :
    QDialog(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Dialog)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    test();
}
 
void Dialog::test() {
    using namespace Ui;
    MyStruct test;
 
    test.i=12;
    test.name="Hello world";
 
    QVariant v = QVariant::fromValue(test);
    QQmlEngine engine;
    QQmlComponent component(&engine, "/home/user/projects-qt5/test_qml/MyItem.qml");
    QObject *object = component.create();
 
    QVariant returnedValue;
    QVariant msg = "Hello from C++";
    QMetaObject::invokeMethod(object, "myQmlFunction",
                              Q_RETURN_ARG(QVariant, returnedValue),
                              Q_ARG(QVariant,v));
 
    qDebug() << "QML function returned:" << returnedValue.toString();
    qDebug() << "comp error is " << component.errors();
    delete object;
 
}

Dialog::Dialog(QWidget *parent) :
    QDialog(parent),
    ui(new Ui::Dialog)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);
    test();
}

void Dialog::test() {
    using namespace Ui;
    MyStruct test;

    test.i=12;
    test.name="Hello world";

    QVariant v = QVariant::fromValue(test);
    QQmlEngine engine;
    QQmlComponent component(&engine, "/home/user/projects-qt5/test_qml/MyItem.qml");
    QObject *object = component.create();

    QVariant returnedValue;
    QVariant msg = "Hello from C++";
    QMetaObject::invokeMethod(object, "myQmlFunction",
                              Q_RETURN_ARG(QVariant, returnedValue),
                              Q_ARG(QVariant,v));

    qDebug() << "QML function returned:" << returnedValue.toString();
    qDebug() << "comp error is " << component.errors();
    delete object;

}

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.qml

import QtQuick 2.0
 
// MyItem.qml
 
Item {
    function myQmlFunction(v) {
        console.log("Got message:",v.name)
        return "some return value"
    }
}

import QtQuick 2.0

// MyItem.qml

Item {
    function myQmlFunction(v) {
        console.log("Got message:",v.name)
        return "some return value"
    }
}

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