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28 * Writes a QVariant to a device. The data item is prefixed with the resulting blocksize,
29 * so the corresponding function readDataFromDevice() can check if enough data is available
30 * at the device to reread the item.
32 void writeDataToDevice(QIODevice *, const QVariant &);
34 /** Reads a data item from a device that has previously been written by writeDataToDevice().
35 * If not enough data bytes are available, the function returns false and the QVariant reference
38 bool readDataFromDevice(QIODevice *, quint32 &, QVariant &);