Method

GLibVariantget_data_as_bytes

Declaration

GBytes*
g_variant_get_data_as_bytes (
  GVariant* value
)

Description

Returns a pointer to the serialized form of a GVariant instance. The semantics of this function are exactly the same as g_variant_get_data(), except that the returned GBytes holds a reference to the variant data.

Available since:

2.36

Return value

Returns:	`GBytes`
	A new `GBytes` representing the variant data.
	The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.