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    Default How to use QtConcurrent on QByteArray for parallelize qCompress

    Hi all,
    Firstly being new on this forum, i quickly present myself. My Name is John, i'm 25 and i'm a french student to an IT engineering school.
    I'm currently trying to develop a simple QT C++ 11 program to compress all files contained into a directory.
    I want to use qCompress from QByteArray class to do this trick.

    I got to do it in a single threaded environment, so now i want to compress in a multi threaded environment by using QtConcurrent.

    But i have no idea on how to do it properly.

    Here a draft i written :

    Qt Code:
    1. QFile outFile("testCompress.ecf");
    2. outFile.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
    3. QByteArray nonCompressedData;
    4. foreach(const QString &file,future.results()){
    5. //Fichier d'entrée
    6. QFile inFile(file);
    7. inFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
    8. nonCompressedData.append(inFile.readAll());
    9. inFile.close();
    10. text += file + "\n";
    11. }
    12.  
    13. //QByteArray compressedData(qCompress(nonCompressedData,9));
    14. //PROBLEM HERE
    15. QFuture<QByteArray> futureCompressor = QtConcurrent::filtered(nonCompressedData,qCompress);
    16. futureCompressor.waitForFinished();
    17. QByteArray compressedData = futureCompressor.results();
    18.  
    19. outFile.write(compressedData);
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    But i have some compilation errors.

    I think it is a bad way to do this so i need some help to go on the right way.

    Compilations errors :

    First : No matching function for call to filtered(&QByteArray,).

    Second : converstion from QList to non scalar type QByteArray requested.

    Thanks in advance

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    Default Re: How to use QtConcurrent on QByteArray for parallelize qCompress

    Hi John,

    You should use the "map" and not "filter" semantics. For a vector of file names you should receive a vector of byte arrays containing compressed data from subsequent files.
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    Default Re: How to use QtConcurrent on QByteArray for parallelize qCompress

    Okay, thank you for the quick reply.

    I need to understand why to use map instead of filter?

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    Default Re: How to use QtConcurrent on QByteArray for parallelize qCompress

    Map converts one data (file name) into other data (compressed content). Filter creates a subset of original data matching certain criteria. In your case it could return file names of files containing images.
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    Default Re: How to use QtConcurrent on QByteArray for parallelize qCompress

    Ok thank you.

    I will try this with mapped.

    Just another advice, to make sure i really understand the philosophy.

    I have to store into a Vector of QByteArray all the files name non compressed, and call map by passing the vector and qCompress method?


    Added after 7 minutes:


    Maybe i will have to use a lambda function to wrap qCompress ?
    Last edited by JohnJohn; 29th April 2015 at 16:03.

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    Default Re: How to use QtConcurrent on QByteArray for parallelize qCompress

    Quote Originally Posted by JohnJohn View Post
    I have to store into a Vector of QByteArray all the files name non compressed, and call map by passing the vector and qCompress method?
    It has to be a function taking a file name, opening the file, reading it, compressing and returning the content. qCompress() doesn't do all that.

    An example function (ignoring memory restrictions) could be:

    Qt Code:
    1. QByteArray compressFile(const QString &fileName) {
    2. QFile f(fileName);
    3. if(!f.open(QFile::ReadOnly)) return QByteArray();
    4. return qCompress(f.readAll());
    5. }
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