How to send non-trivial datatypes over UDP?

Magnus2552

Sending a string over an UDP socket is trivial, once you have correctly initialized the socket.

QByteArray datagram;
datagram.append("STRINGTOSEND");
udpSocket->writeDatagram(datagram, hostaddress, port);

But what about other datatypes? What I am searching for is some way to send any data.
For example I have a QPointF pos, which I have to send over UDP. How could I do that, I cannot just call datagram.append on pos.
Is there any clean built-in way to do that?
Thanks for any help :)

SGaist

Hi,

One way you could do it is with QDataStream or QTextStream to serialize your data into your QByteArray.

Note that you should still structure your data properly. You can't just go and send anything and everything and expect the other side to automagically decode it.

Magnus2552

Thank you a lot! I got it working with QDataStream :)

SGaist

You're welcome !

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