From d10b1fbee97713e5323567d73174ed71a819a409 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@qt.io>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:33:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] QmlDesigner: Reparent Connection if retargeted
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The old implementation did the same.

Change-Id: Iaf925bbbe7f47198aac319dbe930871854694316
Reviewed-by: Henning Gründl <henning.gruendl@qt.io>
Reviewed-by: Qt CI Patch Build Bot <ci_patchbuild_bot@qt.io>
---
 .../components/connectioneditor/connectionmodel.cpp       | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/connectioneditor/connectionmodel.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/connectioneditor/connectionmodel.cpp
index 5311046ddc1..bcfcb63cb7b 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/connectioneditor/connectionmodel.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/connectioneditor/connectionmodel.cpp
@@ -936,8 +936,14 @@ void ConnectionModelBackendDelegate::handleTargetChanged()
                 parentModelNode.signalHandlerProperty(handlerName).setSource(expression);
             }
 
-            if (oldTargetNodeName != newId)
+            if (oldTargetNodeName != newId) {
                 parentModelNode.bindingProperty("target").setExpression(newId);
+
+                const ModelNode parent = parentModelNode.view()->modelNodeForId(newId);
+
+                if (parent.isValid() && QmlItemNode::isValidQmlVisualNode(parent))
+                    parent.nodeListProperty("data").reparentHere(parentModelNode);
+            }
         });
 }