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I'm just experimenting with that nice little piece of code (I'm using Qt 5.9 on RedHat Linux 7.x). In principle it works fine but I encountered an issue when attempting to store a QWidget object's geometry and state information into a JSON file. This is what I do in my QMainWindow subclass to store this data in settings:

QtJsonSettings settings;

settings.beginGroup("GUI/MainWindow");
settings.setValue("geometry", saveGeometry());
settings.setValue("state", saveState());
settings.endGroup();

The methods QWidget::saveGeometry() and QWidget::saveState() return a QByteArray. The QtJsonSettings code does not seem to handle this data properly. The resulting JSON file contains for the key "GUI/MainWindow/geometry" some binary data and the value for the key "GUI/MainWindow/state" is 'null' (without the quotes). I'm still a newbee regarding Qt and therefore couldn't find out yet what needs to be changed in the code to correct this issue.
When I use the original QSettings class and the native format (on Linux) then for these keys the data is stored in the form of escaped character sequences. It looks somewhat like this:

geometry=@bytearray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x2\0\0\0\0\a\xa4\0\0\0\x43\0\0\xe\x19\0\0\x4\xd3\0\0\a\xa8\0\0\0[\0\0\xe\x15\0\0\x4\xcf\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\x11\x35)
state=@bytearray(\0\0\0\xff\0\0\0\0\xfd\0\0\0\0\0\0\x6n\0\0\x4$\0\0\0\x4\0\0\0\x4\0\0\0\b\0\0\0\b\xfc\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x2\0\0\0\x1\0\0\0\x16\0m\0\x61\0i\0n\0T\0o\0o\0l\0\x42\0\x61\0r\x1\0\0\0\0\xff\xff\xff\xff\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0)

It would be great if this behavior could be achieved with the JSON format too.