Weird results when passing a QByteArray* to a method

Hello,

I am having some very weird problems passing a QByteArray* to a method to retrieve BLOB data from a SQL DB. When I check the length of the QByteArray* in the method it is the size I expect, when I check it outside the method it is zero. Does anybody have any suggestions. This is probably something simple and I've just been working too long today:p

Code:

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void class::callingMethod(int ID)
{
QByteArray *data = new QByteArray();
class2Object->getData(ID, data);
qDebug() << "Data length = " << data->length();
}

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Code:

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void class2::getData(int ID, QByteArray *inData)
{
QSqlQuery query;
// ... do query
 
QByteArray *dbData = new QByteArray(query.value(0).toByteArray());
inData = dbData;
 
qDebug() << "dbData Length = " << dbData->length();
qDebug() << "inData Length = " << inData->length();
}

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The output is:

Quote:

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dbData Length = 2559219
inData Length = 2559219
Data Length = 0

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The output is correct as "data" still points to the original byte array. There is no point in using pointers here, anyway.

Code:

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void cls::callingMethod(int id){
  QByteArray data = class2Object->getData(id);
}
 
QByteArray cls2::getData(int id){
  QSqlQuery q(...);
  // ...
  return q.value(0).toByteArray()'
}

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Or optionally if you really want to reuse an external byte array:

Code:

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void cls::callingMethod(int id){
  QByteArray data;
  class2Object->getData(id, data);
}
 
void cls2::getData(int id, QByteArray &ba){
  QSqlQuery q(...);
  // ...
  ba = q.value(0).toByteArray();
}

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...or with a pointer...

Code:

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void cls::callingMethod(int id){
  QByteArray data;
  class2Object->getData(id, &data);
}
 
void cls2::getData(int id, QByteArray *ba){
  QSqlQuery q(...);
  // ...
  *ba = q.value(0).toByteArray();
}

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