Serializing Qt Data Types

Representations of data types that can be serialized by QDataStream

Representations of data types that can be serialized by QDataStream .

The QDataStream allows you to serialize some of the Qt data types. The table below lists the data types that QDataStream can serialize and how they are represented. The format described below is version 13 .

It is always best to cast integers to a Qt integer type, such as qint16 or quint32, when reading and writing. This ensures that you always know exactly what size integers you are reading and writing, no matter what the underlying platform and architecture the application happens to be running on.

See also

JSON Support in Qt