JSerialize: Simple serialization for Qt

Simple serialization of simple type in classes for Qt. Useful for saving things to disk and transmitting stuff from one place to another.

Example

First something to serialize...

//some class derived from JSerialize
class testclass : public JSerialize
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    J_SERIALIZE(int,val2)
    J_SERIALIZE(QString,num,"test")
    J_SERIALIZE(QString,stringProperty)
    J_SERIALIZE(int,val,42)
};

Then code to serialize...

    testclass tc;
    tc.stringProperty="yup";
    tc.val2=112;
    tc.num="numnumnum";
    QByteArray ba=tc;

    //say transmit ba over the net
    //then we can create something
    //that looks like tc on the
    //remote computer. ba is just a
    //a container for bytes.
    qDebug()<<"serialization size is"<<ba.size()<<"bytes\n";

    testclass tc2;
    tc2<<ba;
    qDebug()<<tc2.stringProperty;
    qDebug()<<tc2.val;
    qDebug()<<tc2.val2;
    qDebug()<<tc2.num;

output...

serialization size is 33 bytes

"yup"
42
112
"numnumnum"

Jonti 2022