QCanBus Class | Qt Serial Bus | Qt 6.12.0
Description: The QCanBus class handles registration and creation of bus plugins.
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# QCanBus Class

The QCanBus class handles registration and creation of bus plugins. More...

Header: | `#include <QCanBus>`
CMake: | `find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS SerialBus)` `target_link_libraries(mytarget PRIVATE Qt6::SerialBus)`
qmake: | `QT += serialbus`
Inherits: | QObject

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## Public Functions

`(since 6.8)` QList<QCanBusDeviceInfo> | availableDevices(QString *errorMessage = nullptr) const
QList<QCanBusDeviceInfo> | availableDevices(const QString &plugin, QString *errorMessage = nullptr) const
QCanBusDevice * | createDevice(const QString &plugin, const QString &interfaceName, QString *errorMessage = nullptr) const
QStringList | plugins() const

## Static Public Members

QCanBus * | instance()

## Detailed Description

QCanBus loads Qt CAN Bus plugins at runtime. The ownership of serial bus plugins is transferred to the loader.

## Member Function Documentation

### `[since 6.8]` QList<QCanBusDeviceInfo> QCanBus::availableDevices(QString *errorMessage = nullptr) const

Returns the available devices for all plugins, i.e. all available CAN interfaces.

In case of failure, the optional parameter errorMessage returns a textual error description.

Note: Some plugins might not or only partially support this function.

This function was introduced in Qt 6.8.

See also createDevice().

### QList<QCanBusDeviceInfo> QCanBus::availableDevices(const QString &plugin, QString *errorMessage = nullptr) const

Returns the available interfaces for plugin. In case of failure, the optional parameter errorMessage returns a textual error description.

Note: Some plugins might not or only partially support this function.

For example, the following call returns a list of all available SocketCAN interfaces (which can be used for createDevice()):

     QString errorString;
     const QList<QCanBusDeviceInfo> devices = QCanBus::instance()->availableDevices(
         QStringLiteral("socketcan"), &errorString);
     if (!errorString.isEmpty())
         qDebug() << errorString;

See also createDevice().

### QCanBusDevice *QCanBus::createDevice(const QString &plugin, const QString &interfaceName, QString *errorMessage = nullptr) const

Creates a CAN bus device. plugin is the name of the plugin as returned by the plugins() method. interfaceName is the CAN bus interface name. In case of failure, the optional parameter errorMessage returns a textual error description.

Ownership of the returned plugin is transferred to the caller. Returns `nullptr` if no suitable device can be found.

For example, the following call would connect to the SocketCAN interface vcan0:

     QString errorString;
     QCanBusDevice *device = QCanBus::instance()->createDevice(
         QStringLiteral("socketcan"), QStringLiteral("vcan0"), &errorString);
     if (!device)
         qDebug() << errorString;
     else
         device->connectDevice();

Note: The interfaceName is plugin-dependent. See the corresponding plugin documentation for more information: CAN Bus Plugins. To get a list of available interfaces, availableDevices() can be used.

See also availableDevices().

### `[static]` QCanBus *QCanBus::instance()

Returns a pointer to the QCanBus class. The object is loaded if necessary. QCanBus uses the singleton design pattern.

### QStringList QCanBus::plugins() const

Returns a list of identifiers for all loaded plugins.