Wrap references in a Reerence type.

This allows us to make sure that references are not taken out of
context (the resource).
Because we need to use the type-specific accessors more we also ran into
a problem that we cannot "downcast" a reference with the change
recording still working, for that we have the cast<T>() operator now.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/common/typeindex.cpp b/common/typeindex.cpp
index b0494f3..9d71463 100644
--- a/common/typeindex.cpp
+++ b/common/typeindex.cpp
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ static QByteArray getByteArray(const QVariant &value)
             return "nodate";
         }
     }
+    if (value.canConvert<Sink::ApplicationDomain::Reference>()) {
+        const auto ba = value.value<Sink::ApplicationDomain::Reference>().value;
+        if (!ba.isEmpty()) {
+            return ba;
+        }
+    }
     if (value.isValid() && !value.toByteArray().isEmpty()) {
         return value.toByteArray();
     }