Setting the HTTP headers for XmlListModel in QML

Question

Is it possible to set HTTP headers for an XmlListModel in QML? Suppose you want to use an XML feed which requires an API key as the data source for a list model. I can pass the API key as an URL attribute, but it would be more elegant to pass it in the HTTP headers. I didn't find anything in the documentation about this. Is it possible to somehow access the QNetworkRequest that is implicitly created?

Answer 1

You can use your own network access manager by replacing the default factory with a subclassed one;

http://doc.trolltech.org/4.7-snapshot/qdeclarativeengine.html#setNetworkAccessManagerFactory

In your subclassed implementation you would be able to modify the HTTP header by reimplementing the virtual

http://doc.trolltech.org/4.7-snapshot/qnetworkaccessmanager.html#createRequest