Qt - requiring new model rows to be non-empty - qt

Question

I'm making a program where the user can add multiple people (participants) in a list. When the "Add" button is clicked, a new row is added and "edit" is called for the name field. All is well so far, but there is a thing I'd like to implement, and I can't seem to figure out how: when the user closes the editing field (presses enter or escape, clicks elsewhere, etc.) and if the name field remains empty, I'd like the row to be deleted. In other words, a name has to be filled in. Here is what I have so far:
void MainWindow::addParticipant()
{
QList<QStandardItem *> newRow;
newRow << new QStandardItem()
<< new QStandardItem();
participantModel->appendRow(newRow);
participantView->edit(participantModel->index(participantModel->rowCount()-1, 0));
}
Here participantModel is a QStandardItemModel and participantView is a QTreeView. I tried using signals and slots to detect when a row is empty and to delete it, but it hasn't worked and the syntax is elusive to me.
Ideally I'd be able to detect when the name field is not being edited anymore, so that I can delete the row if need be.

Answer 1

Here is ugly but working solution: subclass from QItemDelegate and check input data inside setModelData member function. As far setModelData has a const qualifier you can not modify model inside it, so you need some trick: in the following example the model is modified inside handler of closeEditor signal.
class MainWidget : public QWidget
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
MainWidget ()
{
QStandardItemModel * model = new QStandardItemModel ();
ItemDelegate * delegate = new ItemDelegate ();
table->setItemDelegate (delegate);
connect (delegate, & ItemDelegate::closeEditor, [=](){
if (isEmpty) {
model->removeRow (emptyRow);
isEmpty = false;
emptyRow = -1;
}
});
connect (delegate, & ItemDelegate::cellEdited, [=](const int row){
isEmpty = true;
emptyRow = row;
});
}
bool isEmpty;
int emptyRow;
};
class ItemDelegate : public QItemDelegate
{
Q_OBJECT
signals:
void cellEdited (int) const;
public:
void setModelData (QWidget * widget, QAbstractItemModel * model, const QModelIndex & index) const override
{
if (0 == index.column () ) {
if (QLineEdit * cellWidget = qobject_cast <QLineEdit *> (widget) ) {
if (cellWidget->text ().isEmpty () ) {
emit cellEdited (index.row () );
return;
}
}
}
QItemDelegate::setModelData (widget, model, index);
}
};
Complete example available at GitLab.

Answer 2

The comments/answers posted thus far have urged me to look more into item delegates. Quite embarrassingly, after relatively little googling I found the following solution for my problem:
void MainWindow::addParticipant()
{
QStyledItemDelegate *participantDelegate = new QStyledItemDelegate;
participantView->setItemDelegateForColumn(0, participantDelegate);
QList<QStandardItem *> newRow;
newRow << new QStandardItem()
<< new QStandardItem();
participantModel->appendRow(newRow);
connect(participantDelegate, SIGNAL(closeEditor(QWidget*,QAbstractItemDelegate::EndEditHint)), this, SLOT(checkRow()));
participantView->edit(participantModel->index(participantModel->rowCount()-1, 0));
}
Apparently the closeEditor signal (only available to delegates) is exactly what I was looking for. When the editor is closed, the slot checkRow() checks if the name field of the participant is empty and decides whether or not to delete the row.