How do I read in FILE contents in QML?

Question

I just need something similar to Fstream to read file IO in QML. Why is there no file IO?

Answer 1

QML has no built-in file I/O. But - judging from the tone of your post - you already knew that.

How do I read in FILE contents in QML?

You can extend QML's functionalities using C++.

The Getting Started Programming with QML tutorial from the Qt Reference Documentation shows you how to build a text editor. This includes file I/O using C++.

Why is there no file I/O?

Because QML is based on JavaScript, and JavaScript has no built-in file I/O either.

QML is designed as an (easy) way to build a user interface. You need an actual program to do the rest.

Answer 2

If your file is plain text you can use XMLHttpRequest. For example:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest;
xhr.open("GET", "mydir/myfile.txt");
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xhr.readyState == XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
        var response = xhr.responseText;
        // use file contents as required
    }
};
xhr.send();