[Interest] Current QDataStream format documentation?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

25.09.2016, 00:39, "Giuseppe D'Angelo" <giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Il 24/09/2016 02:50, Ch'Gans ha scritto:
>>  Adding my 2 cents, I haven't use QDataStream stream much, yet i'm very
>>  well aware of this restriction. I think the documentation is very
>>  explicit about this. And that might be the reason i haven't use it
>>  much.
>
> I'm actually arguing that there's no such restriction. The format used
> on the wire is documented (poorly, see my other email), which means we
> can never change it.
>
>>  QDataStream is black-box system for Qt to Qt exchange.
>
> The mere fact that such documentation exists contradicts this fact.
> Plus, QDataStream's own documentation does not say anything like that
> (at least, I can't find it. I'll be happily to be disproven)
>
>>  If the other side of the pipe is arduino, maybe try to use JSON (very
>>  easy to use on Qt side), and i'm sure arduino as some library for
>>  this.
>
> ... and add a gigantic overhead for JSON's (de)serialization. Seems like
> a terrible idea. You still want some sort of binary format.

Hopefully there are lots of JSON-like (as well as non-JSON-like) binary formats that have already been implemented for C++

>
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Konstantin