DataStreamPeer: Optimize message serialization format
The legacy protocol serializes all messages as QVariant-in-a-QByteArray.
Except with compression, then it is QVariant-in-a-compressed-
QByteArray-in-a-QByteArray. While the actual messages either
comes as a QVariantList or a QVariantMap which is encapsulated
in above QVariant-in-a-mess.
In other words, this seems a bit excessive and causes unneeded overhead.
So for the DataStreamPeer, we're simplifying this. As all post-handshake messages
are structured as a QVariantList, we're now making this the on-wire format
as well. Since we need to know the message size for deserialization, we
first send the total message size as a quint32, followed by the number of items
as a quint32, followed by the QVariants. [1]
Since handshake messages are QVariantMaps, and we want to avoid over-nesting things,
we now send those as such a QVariantList as well, where the items are key-value
pairs - the key as UTF-8 string (as a QByteArray), and the value as a QVariant.
[1] This happens to be the same format as a QByteArray containing a QVariantList,
so the code for that gets rather simple.