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+/***************************************************************************
+ *   Copyright (C) 2005/06 by The Quassel Team                             *
+ *   devel@quassel-irc.org                                                 *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
+ *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
+ *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
+ *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,       *
+ *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        *
+ *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         *
+ *   GNU General Public License for more details.                          *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License     *
+ *   along with this program; if not, write to the                         *
+ *   Free Software Foundation, Inc.,                                       *
+ *   59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.             *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+#ifndef _UTIL_H_
+#define _UTIL_H_
+
+#include <QIODevice>
+#include <QVariant>
+
+/**
+ *  Writes a QVariant to a device. The data item is prefixed with the resulting blocksize,
+ *  so the corresponding function readDataFromDevice() can check if enough data is available
+ *  at the device to reread the item.
+ */
+void writeDataToDevice(QIODevice *, const QVariant &);
+
+/** Reads a data item from a device that has previously been written by writeDataToDevice().
+ *  If not enough data bytes are available, the function returns false and the QVariant reference
+ *  remains untouched.
+ */
+bool readDataFromDevice(QIODevice *, quint32 &, QVariant &);
+
+
+
+
+
+#endif