<![CDATA[how to serialize QMimeData]]>Hello,

I need to save and load a QMimeData object.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Thanks,
Cyrille

]]>https://forum.qt.io/topic/99118/how-to-serialize-qmimedataRSS for NodeSat, 26 Sep 2026 15:37:29 GMTWed, 30 Jan 2019 06:06:37 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to how to serialize QMimeData on Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:00:40 GMT]]>QDataStream &operator<<(QDataStream &stream, const QMimeData &data) { const QStringList formats = data.formats(); stream << (qint32)formats.size(); for(const QString& format : formats) stream << format << data.data(format); return stream; } QDataStream &operator>>(QDataStream &stream, QMimeData &data) { data.clear(); qint32 size; QString format; QByteArray formatData; stream >> size; while(size-->0){ stream >> format >> formatData; data.setData(format,formatData); } return stream; } ]]>https://forum.qt.io/post/508297https://forum.qt.io/post/508297Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:00:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to how to serialize QMimeData on Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:46:01 GMT]]>@Cyrille-de-Brebisson I would say you need to implement << and >> operators for QMimeData (see http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdatastream.html)

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