I’m using QT framework to create an employee interface which stores information of an employee (ID, name, surname, skills, ecc..)

In the widget interface I’ve used a lineEdit for everything since I need to store string types of information, the only exception of parameter skills that should be a list of strings

In my mainwindow.cpp however I should store a list of different skills, not just one, and that’s get me the error when I use my function .addEmployee() because it wants a list of skills, not one string.

I should use QStringList skills but how can I tell the user is inserting different skills and store them as a list?

void MainWindow::on_add_pushButton_clicked()
{
    QString id = ui->id_lineEdit->text();
    QString nome = ui->name_lineEdit->text();
    QString cognome = ui->surname_lineEdit->text();

    QString skills = ui->skills_lineEdit->text();
    // should be QStringList skills but how can I tell the user is inserting different skills? 

    manage.addEmployee(id.toStdString(), name.toStdString(), surname.toStdString(),                                                                     skills.toStdString());

// manage refers to the class manageEmployee.h I already implemented to use function addEmployee(id, name, surname, {skills});
}

>Solution :

The question is a bit unrefined, but I will try my best to answer based on what I could follow.

void MainWindow::on_add_pushButton_clicked()
{
    QString id = ui->id_lineEdit->text();
    QString name = ui->name_lineEdit->text();
    QString surname = ui->surname_lineEdit->text();

    QString skills = ui->skills_lineEdit->text();
    QStringList skillsList = skills.split(","); // or ";", etc.

    manage.addEmployee(id.toStdString(), name.toStdString(), surname.toStdString(), skillsList.toStdList());
}

So if you want the user to input list of skills, you wanna be splitting them using a delimiter as well.
Then you can pass the resulting QStringList to .addEmployee assuming it takes a fourth argument std::list<std::string>

By using a delimiter, you allow the user to enter multiple skills as a single input, which simplifies the interface. However, you should make sure to handle any errors that can arise from invalid input, such as an empty or malformed input string.