How do you serialize a QMap?

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I'm trying to learn how to serialize QMap objects in windowed applications, using this code:

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"
#include <QFile>
#include <QString>
#include <QDataStream>
#include <QMap>
#include <QDebug>


void write ()
{
   QString filename = "Z:/snippets.txt";
   QFile myFile (filename);

   if (!myFile.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly))
   {
       qDebug() << "Could not write " << filename;
       return;
   }

   QMap<QString,QString> map;
   map.insert("one","this is 1");
   map.insert("two","this is 2");
   map.insert("three","this is 3");

   QDataStream out (&myFile);
   out.setVersion(QDataStream::Qt_5_3);
   out<<map;

   myFile.flush();
   myFile.close();
}

QMap<QString,QString> read ()
{
    QString filename = "Z:/snippets.txt";
    QFile myFile (filename);
    QMap<QString,QString> map;
    QDataStream in (&myFile);
    in.setVersion(QDataStream::Qt_5_3);

    if (!myFile.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly))
    {
        qDebug() << "Could not read " << filename;
        return (map);
    }

    in >> map;

    myFile.close();
    return(map);
}

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
    QMainWindow(parent),
    ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this); 

}

MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
    delete ui;
}

void MainWindow::on_btnSave_clicked()
{
    write();
}

void MainWindow::on_btnLoad_clicked()
{
    QMap<QString,QString> map;
    map = read();
    QMapIterator<QString,QString> i(map);
    //do other stuff
}

The write() function called by btnSave does indeed save the QMap. I can see the data in snippets.txt. I can see in the debugger that the read() function, however, doesn't assign anything to the map variable. ... What am I missing?

asked 1 min ago

Al C

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How do you serialize a QMap?