I never worked with binary protocols...
I never worked with binary protocols...
So forget about having the "fastest way" and focus on what you can do.
Do you know a website with a good explanation or a tutorial?
I want to know how to encode and decode such messages. QDataStream is not needed, isn't it?
But performance is very important in my case.
Do you mean that compressed xml suffices, with its serialisation and deserialisation?
What is with basic Object Serialisation in QDataStream?
With XML you still have to decide what to transmit and how. Whatever works, is sufficient. But it doesn't have to be optimal or even close to being optimal.
But I want to know how to do it with my own protocol.
What's with this link [URL="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview?hl=de-DE"]?Then sign up for a course on protocol design.
Actually, building your own protocol isn't that hard if you can keep it simple. You just need to know what you must send/receive. When talking about fixed data frames (by that I mean that you know what type of data is comming, the count isn't important because you can specify that in a sizefield of your protocol).
Think of following super-simpel protocol:
Size (WORD or uint16) = number of bytes following
Data
If you know that "Data" is an array of say foo, and you know that foo contains 2 32bit integers en a double (64bits), than you need to send only 128bits or 16bytes data per foo class, if you want to send 3 foo's, you need to send 48bytes of data, the Size-field is 48, so you know how many bytes the dataframe is. Store the bytes in a byte-array. Because you know the size of your dataframe and you know the size of your foo , you can calculate that you received 3 foo's. From there on you can extract the data from te byte-array and create 3 foo's on the receiver.
If you must send diffrent types of data, you can specify a 'Command'-field (wich is 1 byte for instance) that specify the type of data that is in the Data-field.
If you need to send a mixture of undefined data (I mean, you wanna send ones 3 times foo, 4 times faa and 1 fuu; but the next time it can be 12 fuu and 1 faa) than things get complicated. But, try to figure out first if you can do it in a simple manner.
Hope this quickie helped
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