Using QThread and moveToThread properly with QTimer and QTcpSocket

Question

From reading this blog, this blog and some others, Subclassing QThread is bad practice. So I tried to apply this method.

But my problem is that I have a QTimer and a

Answer 1

There is a much simpler method of achieving all this that follows the same algorithm but doesn't involve all the boilerplating needed to create threads and changing thread affinities, using QRunnable and QThreadPool

If I convert Merlin069's example, you'll see how it simplifies the code a bit:

class CommsHandlerIP : public QObject, public QRunnable
{
    Q_OBJECT
    public:
       void run();

    public slots:
        //... any slots

    signals:
        //... any signals

    private:
       // c++ 11, initialising in headers...
       QTimer* m_pTimer = NULL;
       QTcpSocket* m_pSocket = NULL;   
};

void CommsHandlerIP::run()
{
     m_pTimer = new QTimer();
     m_pSocket = new QTcpSocket();

     //...

     delete m_pTimer;
     delete m_pSocket;
}

QThreadPool::globalInstance()->start(new CommsHandlerIP);