Can two QStandardItem objects handle different attributes from the same object?

I'm a newbie with the Model/View programming of Qt and have read the Editable Tree Model Example in the Qt documentation. The nice feature in this example is that a single object (TreeItem) encapsulates two pieces of information that later are displayed in a single row containing two columns (name and description) thanks to overriding of QModelIndex QAbstractItemModel::index and QVariant QAbstractItemModel::data.

Now, I also have a custom class (e.g. Foo) containing two pieces of information (Foo::m_name and Foo::m_description) that I want to display in a single row containing two columns, but instead of subclassing QAbstractItemModel I want to subclass QStandardItemModel because it has some much functionality. However, it seems I must create two QStandardItem objects for each of my Foo objects, one to handle m_name and another to handle m_description. How can I keep a single Foo object in memory and have these two QStandardItem objects refer to it?

In my question there's the implicit assumption that one must create a QStandardItem object for each (row, column) pair. Please let me know if this is wrong.

Solution

A post in qtcentre suggested Chapter 4 of Advanced Qt Programming and lo and behold, there's a discussion of a tree subsclassing QstandardItemModel and QStandardIteml where each row of the tree is made up of three QstandardItem handling different properties of a single object. The implementation source code is freely available

Basically, one has:

class myItem : public QStandardItem {
public:
  myItem(Foo &afoo) : QStandardItem(afoo.getName()), m_foo(afoo) {
    m_description = new QStandardItem(afoo.getDescription());
    }
  QstandardItem *m_description; // display m_description
private:
  Foo &m_foo;    
};

and then we insert a row of two QstandardItem in our model tree

class myModel: public QStandardItemModel {

  StandardItem *myModel::appendRow(QStandardItem *parent, Foo &afoo)
  {
      auto *doublet = new myItem(afoo);
      parent->appendRow(QList<QStandardItem*>() << doublet
              << double->m_description);
      return nameItem;  
  }
}