+
+
+// PeerPtr is used in RPC signatures for enabling receivers to send replies
+// to a particular peer rather than broadcast to all connected ones.
+// To enable this, the SignalProxy transparently replaces the bogus value
+// received over the network with the actual address of the local Peer
+// instance. Because the actual value isn't needed on the wire, it is
+// serialized as null.
+QDataStream &operator<<(QDataStream &out, PeerPtr ptr)
+{
+ Q_UNUSED(ptr);
+ out << static_cast<quint64>(0); // 64 bit for historic reasons
+ return out;
+}
+
+QDataStream &operator>>(QDataStream &in, PeerPtr &ptr)
+{
+ ptr = nullptr;
+ quint64 value;
+ in >> value;
+ return in;
+}