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d9e90c3894
- add G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING, _BYTESTRING_ARRAY, _STRING_ARRAY
- remove g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array functions
- add g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring{,_array} functions
- remove undocumented support for deserialising arrays of objectpaths
or signature strngs using g_variant_get_strv()
- add and document new format strings '^ay', '^&ay', '^aay' and '^a&ay'
- update GApplication to use the new API
- update GSettings binding code to use the new API
- add tests
335 lines
12 KiB
C
335 lines
12 KiB
C
/*
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* Copyright © 2007, 2008 Ryan Lortie
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* Copyright © 2009, 2010 Codethink Limited
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*
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* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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* version 2 of the licence, or (at your option) any later version.
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*
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* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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* Lesser General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License along with this library; if not, write to the
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* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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* Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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*
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* Author: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
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*/
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#if defined(G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES) && !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
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#error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
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#endif
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#ifndef __G_VARIANT_TYPE_H__
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#define __G_VARIANT_TYPE_H__
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#include <glib/gmessages.h>
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#include <glib/gtypes.h>
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G_BEGIN_DECLS
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/**
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* GVariantType:
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*
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* A type in the GVariant type system.
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*
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* Two types may not be compared by value; use g_variant_type_equal() or
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* g_variant_type_is_subtype(). May be copied using
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* g_variant_type_copy() and freed using g_variant_type_free().
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**/
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typedef struct _GVariantType GVariantType;
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_BOOLEAN:
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*
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* The type of a value that can be either %TRUE or %FALSE.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_BOOLEAN ((const GVariantType *) "b")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTE:
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*
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* The type of an integer value that can range from 0 to 255.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTE ((const GVariantType *) "y")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT16:
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*
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* The type of an integer value that can range from -32768 to 32767.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT16 ((const GVariantType *) "n")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT16:
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*
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* The type of an integer value that can range from 0 to 65535.
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* There were about this many people living in Toronto in the 1870s.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT16 ((const GVariantType *) "q")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT32:
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*
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* The type of an integer value that can range from -2147483648 to
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* 2147483647.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT32 ((const GVariantType *) "i")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT32:
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*
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* The type of an integer value that can range from 0 to 4294967295.
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* That's one number for everyone who was around in the late 1970s.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT32 ((const GVariantType *) "u")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT64:
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*
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* The type of an integer value that can range from
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* -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_INT64 ((const GVariantType *) "x")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT64:
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*
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* The type of an integer value that can range from 0 to
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* 18446744073709551616. That's a really big number, but a Rubik's
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* cube can have a bit more than twice as many possible positions.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT64 ((const GVariantType *) "t")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_DOUBLE:
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*
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* The type of a double precision IEEE754 floating point number.
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* These guys go up to about 1.80e308 (plus and minus) but miss out on
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* some numbers in between. In any case, that's far greater than the
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* estimated number of fundamental particles in the observable
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* universe.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_DOUBLE ((const GVariantType *) "d")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_STRING:
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*
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* The type of a string. "" is a string. %NULL is not a string.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_STRING ((const GVariantType *) "s")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH:
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*
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* The type of a DBus object reference. These are strings of a
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* specific format used to identify objects at a given destination on
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* the bus.
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*
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* If you are not interacting with DBus, then there is no reason to make
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* use of this type. If you are, then the DBus specification contains a
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* precise description of valid object paths.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH ((const GVariantType *) "o")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_SIGNATURE:
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*
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* The type of a DBus type signature. These are strings of a specific
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* format used as type signatures for DBus methods and messages.
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*
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* If you are not interacting with DBus, then there is no reason to make
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* use of this type. If you are, then the DBus specification contains a
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* precise description of valid signature strings.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_SIGNATURE ((const GVariantType *) "g")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_VARIANT:
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*
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* The type of a box that contains any other value (including another
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* variant).
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_VARIANT ((const GVariantType *) "v")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_HANDLE:
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*
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* The type of a 32bit signed integer value, that by convention, is used
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* as an index into an array of file descriptors that are sent alongside
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* a DBus message.
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*
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* If you are not interacting with DBus, then there is no reason to make
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* use of this type.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_HANDLE ((const GVariantType *) "h")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_UNIT:
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*
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* The empty tuple type. Has only one instance. Known also as "triv"
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* or "void".
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_UNIT ((const GVariantType *) "()")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_ANY:
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*
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* An indefinite type that is a supertype of every type (including
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* itself).
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_ANY ((const GVariantType *) "*")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_BASIC:
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*
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* An indefinite type that is a supertype of every basic (ie:
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* non-container) type.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_BASIC ((const GVariantType *) "?")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_MAYBE:
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*
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* An indefinite type that is a supertype of every maybe type.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_MAYBE ((const GVariantType *) "m*")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_ARRAY:
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*
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* An indefinite type that is a supertype of every array type.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_ARRAY ((const GVariantType *) "a*")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_TUPLE:
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*
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* An indefinite type that is a supertype of every tuple type,
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* regardless of the number of items in the tuple.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_TUPLE ((const GVariantType *) "r")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_DICT_ENTRY:
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*
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* An indefinite type that is a supertype of every dictionary entry
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* type.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_DICT_ENTRY ((const GVariantType *) "{?*}")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_DICTIONARY:
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*
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* An indefinite type that is a supertype of every dictionary type --
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* that is, any array type that has an element type equal to any
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* dictionary entry type.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_DICTIONARY ((const GVariantType *) "a{?*}")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_STRING_ARRAY:
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*
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* The type of an array of strings.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_STRING_ARRAY ((const GVariantType *) "as")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING:
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*
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* The type of an array of bytes. This type is commonly used to pass
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* around strings that may not be valid utf8. In that case, the
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* convention is that the nul terminator character should be included as
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* the last character in the array.
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING ((const GVariantType *) "ay")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING_ARRAY:
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*
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* The type of an array of byte strings (an array of arrays of bytes).
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**/
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#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING_ARRAY ((const GVariantType *) "aay")
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/**
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* G_VARIANT_TYPE:
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* @type_string: a well-formed #GVariantType type string
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*
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* Converts a string to a const #GVariantType. Depending on the
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* current debugging level, this function may perform a runtime check
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* to ensure that @string is a valid GVariant type string.
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*
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* It is always a programmer error to use this macro with an invalid
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* type string.
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*
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* Since 2.24
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**/
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#ifndef G_DISABLE_CHECKS
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# define G_VARIANT_TYPE(type_string) (g_variant_type_checked_ ((type_string)))
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#else
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# define G_VARIANT_TYPE(type_string) ((const GVariantType *) (type_string))
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#endif
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/* type string checking */
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gboolean g_variant_type_string_is_valid (const gchar *type_string);
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gboolean g_variant_type_string_scan (const gchar *string,
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const gchar *limit,
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const gchar **endptr);
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/* create/destroy */
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void g_variant_type_free (GVariantType *type);
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GVariantType * g_variant_type_copy (const GVariantType *type);
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GVariantType * g_variant_type_new (const gchar *type_string);
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/* getters */
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gsize g_variant_type_get_string_length (const GVariantType *type);
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const gchar * g_variant_type_peek_string (const GVariantType *type);
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gchar * g_variant_type_dup_string (const GVariantType *type);
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/* classification */
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_definite (const GVariantType *type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_container (const GVariantType *type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_basic (const GVariantType *type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_maybe (const GVariantType *type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_array (const GVariantType *type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_tuple (const GVariantType *type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_dict_entry (const GVariantType *type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_variant (const GVariantType *type);
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/* for hash tables */
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guint g_variant_type_hash (gconstpointer type);
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gboolean g_variant_type_equal (gconstpointer type1,
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gconstpointer type2);
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/* subtypes */
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gboolean g_variant_type_is_subtype_of (const GVariantType *type,
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const GVariantType *supertype);
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/* type iterator interface */
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const GVariantType * g_variant_type_element (const GVariantType *type);
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const GVariantType * g_variant_type_first (const GVariantType *type);
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const GVariantType * g_variant_type_next (const GVariantType *type);
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gsize g_variant_type_n_items (const GVariantType *type);
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const GVariantType * g_variant_type_key (const GVariantType *type);
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const GVariantType * g_variant_type_value (const GVariantType *type);
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/* constructors */
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GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_array (const GVariantType *element);
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GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_maybe (const GVariantType *element);
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GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_tuple (const GVariantType * const *items,
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gint length);
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GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_dict_entry (const GVariantType *key,
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const GVariantType *value);
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/*< private >*/
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const GVariantType * g_variant_type_checked_ (const gchar *);
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G_END_DECLS
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#endif /* __G_VARIANT_TYPE_H__ */
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