Size of QByteArray is hard to compute? - qt

Question

Recently I programmed to do file transmission with Qt. Thought it worked now, I'm still curious about what happened. Please help me find out the reason. Many thanks.
Why the size of head is bigger than the sum of sizeof(qin32), sizeof(qint32) and length of file name?(I guess it is the reason of function - setVersion())
QFileInfo info(file_to_send.fileName());
QByteArray head;
QDataStream out(&head, QIODevice::WriteOnly);
out.setVersion(QDataStream::Qt_5_0);
out << qint32(file_to_send.size() + info.fileName().length() + sizeof(qint32)*2)
<< qint32(info.fileName().length())
<< info.fileName();
tcpClient.write(head);

Answer 1

You have made it to complicated. Pattern is like that:
QFileInfo info(file_to_send.fileName());
QByteArray head;
QDataStream out(&head, QIODevice::WriteOnly);
out.setVersion(QDataStream::Qt_5_0);
out << qint32(0)
<< info.fileName(); // << YouCanAddMoreStuffHere;
out.device()->seek(0);
out << qint32(out.length());
tcpClient.write(head);
and read code:
void SomeClass::slotReadClient() { // slot connected to readyRead signal of QTcpSocket
QTcpSocket *tcpSocket = (QTcpSocket*)sender();
QDataStream clientReadStream(tcpSocket);
while(true) {
if (!next_block_size) {
if (tcpSocket->bytesAvailable() < sizeof(qint32)) { // are size data available
break;
}
clientReadStream >> next_block_size;
}
if (tcpSocket->bytesAvailable() < next_block_size) {
break;
}
QString fileName;
clientReadStream >> fileName; // >> YouCanAddMoreStuffHere; // same as above
next_block_size = 0;
}
}

Answer 2

info.filename() writes out its own length
if you don't want that then you can do
QFileInfo info(file_to_send.fileName());
QByteArray head;
QDataStream out(&head, QIODevice::WriteOnly);
out.setVersion(QDataStream::Qt_5_0);
QByteArray filename = info.fileName().toLatin1();
out << qint32(file_to_send.size() + filename .length() + sizeof(qint32)*2);
<< qint32(filename .length())
out.writeRawData(fileName.constData(), filename.length());
tcpClient.write(head);
using writeRawData which bypasses any built in encoding