QML/3-QMLCountry/main.py

# Copyright (C) 2022 The Qt Company Ltd.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR BSD-3-Clause

import sys
import urllib.request
import json
from pathlib import Path

from PySide6.QtQuick import QQuickView
from PySide6.QtCore import QStringListModel, QUrl
from PySide6.QtGui import QGuiApplication


if __name__ == '__main__':

    #get our data
    url = "http://country.io/names.json"
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
    data = json.loads(response.read().decode('utf-8'))

    #Format and sort the data
    data_list = list(data.values())
    data_list.sort()

    #Set up the application window
    app = QGuiApplication(sys.argv)
    view = QQuickView()
    view.setResizeMode(QQuickView.SizeRootObjectToView)

    #Expose the list to the Qml code
    my_model = QStringListModel()
    my_model.setStringList(data_list)
    view.setInitialProperties({"myModel": my_model})

    #Load the QML file
    qml_file = Path(__file__).parent / "view.qml"
    view.setSource(QUrl.fromLocalFile(qml_file.resolve()))

    #Show the window
    if view.status() == QQuickView.Error:
        sys.exit(-1)
    view.show()

    #execute and cleanup
    app.exec()
    del view