Setting the rows of a StandardTableView from the outside

[isoraqathedh]

In Python I have a list of dicts that look like this:

[{"status": "1", "game": "Exgame", "detail": "abcdefgh...."},
 {"status": "X", "game": "Exgame2", "detail": "sdfljksefesjklwer...."}
]

I hope to wrap this into a model that can be understood by StandardTable view, but I have no success in doing so. For example a similar structure in Slint can't be turned into rows like this, failing in a parse error, seemingly because it emits an array and not a named struct:

export struct Game {
    status: string,
    name: string,
    detail: string,
}
// in the main window
in property<[Game]> games: [
        {
            status: "✓", name: "Exgame",
            detail: "Example game 3/3 very very long text here 122334456454654445",
        },
        {
            status: "✓", name: "Exgame2",
            detail: "Example game two X/3 very very long text here 122334456454654445",
        }
    ];
StandardTableView {
 // ...
 for x in root.games: rows := [
                 { text: x.status },
                 { text: x.name },
                 { text: x.detail },
              ];
}

An earlier way of setting the rows via List model along the lines of:

self.model = ListModel([[{"text": "1"}, {"text": "Exgame"}, {"text": "skljserjklesf..."}], ...])

with rows: model; inside the slint file results in a cryptic Python: Model implementation of row_data() returned value that cannot be converted to Rust: TypeError: 'list' object cannot be converted to 'PyDict' that I cannot hunt down as to the cause.

In all honesty, the status should be an icon as well, not a text, but for now I think I could substitute for Unicode text.

In the end, I hope that this relatively universal procedure can be documented somewhere.

[isoraqathedh]

I have made progress in this problem.

For a list of dicts as mentioned, you have to wrap every list in a slint.ListModel, like this:

        self._games = [slint.ListModel(
            [{"text": i["status"]}, {"text": i["game"]}, {"text": i["detail"]}]
        ) for i in games]
        self.games = slint.ListModel(self._games)

Then we can mutate self._games using the usual methods (like self._games[1].set_row_data(0, {"text": "✓"})) and then it will show up in the GUI as well.

[isoraqathedh]

I think this is all for now. I have other problems but that will use another topic.