Method

GLibVariantget_data_as_bytes

since: 2.36

Declaration [src]

GBytes*
g_variant_get_data_as_bytes (
  GVariant* value
)

Description [src]

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.

This function cannot fail, even for corrupted variants. In that case it will return a GBytes filled with nul bytes.

Available since: 2.36

Return value

Type: GBytes

A new GBytes representing the variant data.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.