[Development] Enhancement to QIODevice?

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2015-09-14 06:25, Andrzej Ostruszka wrote:
> I'd like to ask for possibility to enhance a bit QIODevice.
> 
> My problem/wish is following.  I'm using QSerialPort and (as all 
> QIODevice-s) it is tailored for reading in "lines" ('\n') which is fine 
> since most of the time this is exactly what I need.  But I just happen 
> to have to deal with an older lock-in device which communicates via 
> messages terminated by '\r'.
> 
> So what I'm aiming to is to make the "line" (or more generally "packet") 
> termination a bit more flexible [...]

This sounds like an opportunity to discuss with the folks working on CAN
bus how to make QIODevice more generally friendly to protocols that
communicate with some form of "packet", for whatever that definition
happens to be. QUdpSocket could presumably benefit also.

-- 
Matthew