QHttp in not available in Qt5

Question

I noticed that the QHttp class is no longer available in Qt5 and I keep getting an error message which says that I need to use the QNetworkAccessManager to do this.

Is there a way to access this class in Qt5?

Answer 1

This is a simple HTTP post (I am using Qt 5.3.2)

int Connection::postRequest(QString requestType, QUrl params){
    QString params_array = params.query();

    QNetworkRequest request(user->url);
    request.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentLengthHeader, QByteArray::number(params_array.size()));
    request.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentTypeHeader, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

    QEventLoop waitLoop;
    QNetworkAccessManager* connection = new QNetworkAccessManager(/*`this` can also be passed*/);
    QNetworkReply* reply = connection->post(request, params_array.toUtf8());
    QObject::connect(reply, SIGNAL(finished()), &waitLoop, SLOT(quit()));
    waitLoop.exec();

    int errorCode = reply->error();
    if (errorCode != 0){
        // Show Error Message
    }
    else{
        // Parse "reply"
    }

    delete reply;
    delete connection;
    return errorCode;
}