Method

GLibVariantdup_bytestring

Declaration 

gchar*
g_variant_dup_bytestring (
  GVariant* value,
  gsize* length
)

Description

Similar to g_variant_get_bytestring() except that instead of returning a constant string, the string is duplicated.

The return value must be freed using g_free().

Available since:2.26

Parameters

length gsize*
 

A pointer to a #gsize, to store the length (not including the nul terminator)
 The argument will be set by the function.
 The argument can be NULL.
 The instance takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Returns: An array of guint8
  
     a newly allocated string.
 The array is NULL-terminated.
 The length of the array is in the length argument.
 The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.