Method

GLibVariantget_child

since: 2.24

Declaration

void
g_variant_get_child (
  GVariant* value,
  gsize index_,
  const gchar* format_string,
  ...
)

Description

Reads a child item out of a container GVariant instance and deconstructs it according to format_string. This call is essentially a combination of g_variant_get_child_value() and g_variant_get().

format_string determines the C types that are used for unpacking the values and also determines if the values are copied or borrowed, see the section on [GVariant format strings][gvariant-format-strings-pointers].

Available since: 2.24

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

Parameters

index_

Type: gsize

The index of the child to deconstruct.

format_string

Type: const gchar*

A GVariant format string.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

...

Type:

Arguments, as per format_string.