List of Built-in Services

Qbs provides the following built-in JavaScript extensions to simplify operations that are expected to be needed often in project files.

To gain access to the operations provided by a particular Service - for example, the File service - use the following statement at the top of your Qbs project file:

import qbs.File

If you instead need to access the service from a JavaScript file, import it using the following statement at the top of your JavaScript file:

var File = require("qbs.File");

BinaryFile Service	Provides read and write operations on binary files.
Environment Service	Provides operations on the system environment.
File Service	Provides operations on the file system.
FileInfo Service	Provides operations on file paths.
General Services	Provides various operations.
Host Service	Provides host information.
Process Service	Allows you to start external processes.
PropertyList Service	Provides read, write and convert operations on property list files.
TemporaryDir Service	Creates a unique directory for temporary use.
TextFile Service	Provides read and write operations on text files.
Utilities Service	Provides miscellaneous operations.
Xml Service	Provides a DOM parser and generator to JavaScript.

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