Obsolete Members for QWebSocket

The following members of class QWebSocket are deprecated. They are provided to keep old source code working. We strongly advise against using them in new code.

Signals

(deprecated in 6.5) void error(QAbstractSocket::SocketError error)

Member Function Documentation

[signal, deprecated in 6.5] void QWebSocket::error(QAbstractSocket::SocketError error)

This function is deprecated since 6.5. We strongly advise against using it in new code.

Use errorOccurred(QAbstractSocket::SocketError error) instead.

Note: This signal is overloaded. To connect to this signal: 

 // Connect using qOverload:
 connect(webSocket, qOverload(&QWebSocket::error),
         receiver, &ReceiverClass::slot);

 // Or using a lambda:
 connect(webSocket, qOverload(&QWebSocket::error),
         this, [](QAbstractSocket::SocketError error) { /* handle error */ });
For more examples and approaches, see connecting to overloaded signals.

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