ListView not initially showing data - c++

Question

My QML ListView doesn't show my data until I perturb it with the mouse (e.g. just drag it up and down.) After this the view shows the model without issue until it empties, and then I once again need to perturb it to get it working again. Is there way to kick this ListView into working?
I'm using Qt 5.8 on Linux 14.04. My model is a subclass of QAbstractListModel. I build it by following the AbstractItemModel Example. The main difference is that my list model is a property of an entity, rather than being set with setContextProperty in main.cpp.
There are a few similar issues here on SO about the ListViews not updating, but none seem to only have an issue at the start. Most of them relate to the OP calling dataChanged manually instead of beforeInsertRows() & endInsertRows() - both methods I'm calling (see below.)
My ListView is in an item loaded with a SceneLoader.
I posted all the relevant code here, because I'm a little suspicious of how I use the Layouts on my ListView (maybe that's causing it? Maybe my hierarchy is broken? I haven't been able to prove that though.)
In short though,
ListView:
ListView {
anchors.fill: parent
model: sceneGraph.blobs
delegate: delegate
}
BlobModel.cpp:
auto BlobModel::addBlob(const BlobPointDataPtr& data) -> void
{
// ...
// Each blob has a uuid
const auto idx = Contains(uuid);
if (-1 != idx)
{
blobs_[idx]->Update(data);
Q_EMIT dataChanged(createIndex(idx, 0), createIndex(idx, 0));
}
else
{
beginInsertRows(QModelIndex(), rowCount(), rowCount());
blobs_ << new Blob{data, id_count_}; id_count_++;
endInsertRows(); // responsible for the QQmlChangeSet
Q_EMIT dataChanged(createIndex(rowCount(), 0), createIndex(rowCount(), 0));
}
}
Also, on my terminal, I receive the message:
QObject::connect: Cannot queue arguments of type 'QQmlChangeSet'
(Make sure 'QQmlChangeSet' is registered using qRegisterMetaType().)
This seems to be emitted by endInsertRows(), but I'm not sure why. In the past the solution has been to register the missing type, e.g. qRegisterMetaType<QQmlChangeSet*>("QQmlChangeSet"); but this seems not to be a public type with Qt, and because everything mostly works without it, I'm not sure missing that is the exact issue.

Answer 1

The problem, as pointed out in the comments, was that I was modifying my model outside of the main thread.
My code was set up so that another thread would trigger additions to my model by directly calling addData. The reason my minimal example wasn't able to replicate this was because in it I used a QTimer to simulate the other thread, however QTimer also runs on the main thread.
The solution was to change my direct call to addData(data) to emitted a signal to do the addition, thus moving the actual work back to the main thread.