Add overload for char to QDataStream

This is a distinct types in C++, and should be supported out of the
box in QDataStream. This is also required so we do find a data stream
operator for the types when searching for it using template magic.

Change-Id: Iea57780621e2aab7ed253f1cc896bebada43b9f0
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.h b/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.h
index 3a234ab15e..095a6681c2 100644
--- a/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.h
+++ b/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.h
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ public:
     int version() const;
     void setVersion(int);
 
+    QDataStream &operator>>(char &i);
     QDataStream &operator>>(qint8 &i);
     QDataStream &operator>>(quint8 &i);
     QDataStream &operator>>(qint16 &i);
@@ -166,6 +167,7 @@ public:
     QDataStream &operator>>(char16_t &c);
     QDataStream &operator>>(char32_t &c);
 
+    QDataStream &operator<<(char i);
     QDataStream &operator<<(qint8 i);
     QDataStream &operator<<(quint8 i);
     QDataStream &operator<<(qint16 i);
@@ -370,6 +372,9 @@ inline int QDataStream::version() const
 inline void QDataStream::setVersion(int v)
 { ver = v; }
 
+inline QDataStream &QDataStream::operator>>(char &i)
+{ return *this >> reinterpret_cast<qint8&>(i); }
+
 inline QDataStream &QDataStream::operator>>(quint8 &i)
 { return *this >> reinterpret_cast<qint8&>(i); }
 
@@ -382,6 +387,9 @@ inline QDataStream &QDataStream::operator>>(quint32 &i)
 inline QDataStream &QDataStream::operator>>(quint64 &i)
 { return *this >> reinterpret_cast<qint64&>(i); }
 
+inline QDataStream &QDataStream::operator<<(char i)
+{ return *this << qint8(i); }
+
 inline QDataStream &QDataStream::operator<<(quint8 i)
 { return *this << qint8(i); }