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  • E EL-jos

    Yes I have this problem because I noticed that if my file size is larger than 65535 bytes, the server does not receive all the information. But how do we solve this problem?

    Then if I use Qdatastream this to first write the identifier of my message because the one that says if it is a text message (5), if it is a new connection (3), if it is a disconnect (4) and for the file the identifier value is (7) to tell the server that it is a file. Here the QDATASTREAM allows me to write a screen like this:

    *Message size

    *Identifier

    *Message

    So if I don't use a Qdatastream how can I write in my QByteArray?

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

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    aha_1980
    Lifetime Qt Champion
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    Hi @EL-jos,

    What do you want to do exactly?

    For file transfer, decicated protocols exists, e.g. FTP or HTTP. To me it looks like your are re-inventing the wheel?

    Regards

    Qt has to stay free or it will die.

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      #13

      Concretely I want my client to send a file to my server and the server after receiving the file, that it sends this file to all the client that are connected to it.
      Because it is a chat software then I also want the client to be able to send a file to another client via a server.

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        Christian Ehrlicher
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        Please take a look at the examples (again...) how to send large data ... http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtnetwork-loopback-example.html

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          #15

          Okay Thanks, I'll read this example and then I'll come back to you to give you the follow-up.

          Thank you

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            EL-jos
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            #16

            Hi,
            after several studies of the example given by the Qt documentation, I don't know where and how to send my file to the server?

            then in the example given by the Qt documentation, just sends the same 64KB packet several times until it tints 50MB . and the server and the client are in the same project but in my case the client and the server are different projects

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              SGaist
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              Hi,

              Are you writing both the client and server parts ?

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                #18

                Yes, do you want me to mail them?

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                  SGaist
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                  It was regarding your last remark about the server and client being in the same project. Since you are writing both, then it doesn't matter that they are in different projects.

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                    EL-jos
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                    #20

                    Hey, everybody,

                    Still in the example given by the Qt documentation for the exchange of large documents between the client and the server in a chatt software, I could separate the client and the server in different projects which is not the case in the example given by the Qt documentation.

                    So here's my question:

                    Just that there I do not know how to adapt this example to my chatt software to be able to send large files between client and server?

                    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

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                      SGaist
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                      There's nothing special to do, if you implement the client and the server the same way as the exemple, then it's also going to work the same.

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                        EL-jos
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                        #22

                        Theoretically yes, but in practice this is not the case.

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                        • E EL-jos

                          Theoretically yes, but in practice this is not the case.

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                          mrjj
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                          @EL-jos
                          Hi
                          As mr @Christian-Ehrlicher noted higher up.
                          You are using quint16 for size handling
                          Try
                          #include <limits.h>
                          qDebug() << std::numeric_limits<quint16>::max();

                          and you will see the magic 65535 as maximum value.

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                            EL-jos
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                            #24

                            Yes you are right but except that 65535 makes a maximum size of 64Ko or me I want to send voluminous documents of the order of 30Mo to even 50Mo

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                            • E EL-jos

                              Yes you are right but except that 65535 makes a maximum size of 64Ko or me I want to send voluminous documents of the order of 30Mo to even 50Mo

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                              #25

                              @EL-jos
                              then use quint64 instead.

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                              • E EL-jos

                                Yes you are right but except that 65535 makes a maximum size of 64Ko or me I want to send voluminous documents of the order of 30Mo to even 50Mo

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                                #26

                                @EL-jos said in Reading a file with Qt:

                                65535 makes a maximum size of 64Ko or me I want to send voluminous documents of the order of 30Mo to even 50Mo

                                Then you cannot use quint16. It is too small.

                                Use quint32 or even quint64 instead.

                                EDIT: @mrjj beat me to it!

                                Qt Doc Search for browsers: forum.qt.io/topic/35616/web-browser-extension-for-improved-doc-searches

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                                  Hey, everybody.
                                  I was able to solve my problem thanks to your advice, now I am able to send large document in my chatt software but there is a new problem that arises, here is the problem: Which class should I use to send a video file in my chatt software?
                                  Example: for image exchange, I used the class QImage(Stream for image)but now what class used for Video(Stream video)?

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                                  • E EL-jos

                                    Hey, everybody.
                                    I was able to solve my problem thanks to your advice, now I am able to send large document in my chatt software but there is a new problem that arises, here is the problem: Which class should I use to send a video file in my chatt software?
                                    Example: for image exchange, I used the class QImage(Stream for image)but now what class used for Video(Stream video)?

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                                    jsulm
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                                    wrote on last edited by jsulm
                                    #28

                                    @EL-jos If it is a file then simply send the binary content of the file.
                                    There is no need to use a dedicated class for each and every data type.
                                    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30288385/how-to-send-a-file-in-qt

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                                      Yes it is already what I do so I send data in bytes but except that it does not work because I have an error when reading my file like this file is not supported

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                                        aha_1980
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                                        @EL-jos

                                        Why should a file not be supported if you just send it byte-by-byte? if you store it on a harddisk, it does not matter for the hard disk which file type it is. Its just a number of bytes.

                                        Same happens when you send it over network.

                                        Regards

                                        Qt has to stay free or it will die.

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                                        • E EL-jos

                                          Yes it is already what I do so I send data in bytes but except that it does not work because I have an error when reading my file like this file is not supported

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                                          jsulm
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                                          wrote on last edited by
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                                          @EL-jos said in Reading a file with Qt:

                                          error when reading my file like this file is not supported

                                          Please explain. Where do you get this error? QFile (I guess you use it for reading) does not care at all about file content.

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