[Qt-interest] How to get unicode data from socket?

Sean Harmer sean.harmer at maps-technology.com
Thu Jan 14 12:26:33 CET 2010


Hi,

On Thursday 14 January 2010 11:20:00 Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a program written in QT and it receives data via socket connection.
> The data format is:
> +--------------------+-----------------------+
> *| sizeOfData(4bytes) | Data (Unicode string) |*
> +--------------------+-----------------------+
> My questions are:
> 
>    1. After I read the first 4 bytes data, I use memcpy() to get/convert
>  the following data size. Does QT provide a convenient way to achieve this
>  instead of memcpy()?
>    2. I use QTcpSocket.read(sizeOfData), which returns the QByteArray, to
>    read the real data but I can't find a way to convert it to QString. How
>    should I do?
> 

QString has a constructor that takes a QByteArray: 

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qstring.html#QString-8

Sean



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