I\'m struggling with writing a struct
to a file via QFile
in Qt.
typedef struct {
uint32_t timestamp;
uint32_t recordType;
Another thing is that to keep Qt compatibility rename some native types, so I recommend using equivalent types, in addition to using QString directly instead of char * payload and payloadLength as shown below:
struct DataPacket{
quint32 timestamp;
quint32 recordType;
QString payload;
};
Also when writing it is better to use QDataStream as shown below:
QDataStream &operator>>(QDataStream &in, DataPacket &p){
in >> p.timestamp >> p.recordType >>p.payload;
return in;
}
QDataStream &operator<<(QDataStream &out, const DataPacket &p){
out << p.timestamp << p.recordType <<p.payload;
return out;
}
The following example shows its use:
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
QCoreApplication a(argc, argv);
const QString fileName = "file.log";
QString dataString = "$GPGSA,M,3,03,23,22,19,17,01,09,31,12,,,,1.9,0.9,1.6*3D";
DataPacket pin{1000, 123, dataString};
QFile fout(fileName);
if(fout.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly)){
QDataStream out(&fout);
out<<pin;
}
fout.flush(); // or fout.close();
DataPacket pout;
QFile fin(fileName);
if (fin.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
QDataStream in(&fin);
in>>pout;
qDebug()<<pout.timestamp<<pout.recordType<<pout.payload;
}
return 0;
}
Output:
1000 123 "$GPGSA,M,3,03,23,22,19,17,01,09,31,12,,,,1.9,0.9,1.6*3D"
Note: QDataStream sets payloadLength indirectly because it knows the size of QString.
Much simpler:
assuming your structure 'DataPacket'
void MyClass::write()
{
QFile out(FILE_PATH_NAME);
out.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
out.write((const char *)DataPacket,sizeof(DataPacket));
out.close();
}
void MyClass::read()
{
QFile in(FILE_PATH_NAME);
in.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
in.read((const char *)DataPacket,sizeof(DataPacket));
in.close();
}