* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the
- * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ * License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*
* Author: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
*/
#ifndef __G_VARIANT_TYPE_H__
#define __G_VARIANT_TYPE_H__
+#if !defined (__GLIB_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GLIB_COMPILATION)
+#error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
+#endif
+
#include <glib/gmessages.h>
#include <glib/gtypes.h>
* A type in the GVariant type system.
*
* Two types may not be compared by value; use g_variant_type_equal() or
- * g_variant_type_is_subtype(). May be copied using
+ * g_variant_type_is_subtype_of(). May be copied using
* g_variant_type_copy() and freed using g_variant_type_free().
**/
typedef struct _GVariantType GVariantType;
#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_UINT64 ((const GVariantType *) "t")
/**
+ * G_VARIANT_TYPE_FLOAT:
+ *
+ * The type of a single precision IEEE754 floating point number. You
+ * can store a number as large as 3.40e38 in these (plus and minus) but
+ * there are some gaps on the way.
+ **/
+#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_FLOAT ((const GVariantType *) "f")
+
+/**
* G_VARIANT_TYPE_DOUBLE:
*
* The type of a double precision IEEE754 floating point number.
/**
* G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH:
*
- * The type of a DBus object reference. These are strings of a
+ * The type of a D-Bus object reference. These are strings of a
* specific format used to identify objects at a given destination on
* the bus.
*
- * If you are not interacting with DBus, then there is no reason to make
- * use of this type. If you are, then the DBus specification contains a
+ * If you are not interacting with D-Bus, then there is no reason to make
+ * use of this type. If you are, then the D-Bus specification contains a
* precise description of valid object paths.
**/
#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH ((const GVariantType *) "o")
/**
* G_VARIANT_TYPE_SIGNATURE:
*
- * The type of a DBus type signature. These are strings of a specific
- * format used as type signatures for DBus methods and messages.
+ * The type of a D-Bus type signature. These are strings of a specific
+ * format used as type signatures for D-Bus methods and messages.
*
- * If you are not interacting with DBus, then there is no reason to make
- * use of this type. If you are, then the DBus specification contains a
+ * If you are not interacting with D-Bus, then there is no reason to make
+ * use of this type. If you are, then the D-Bus specification contains a
* precise description of valid signature strings.
**/
#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_SIGNATURE ((const GVariantType *) "g")
*
* The type of a 32bit signed integer value, that by convention, is used
* as an index into an array of file descriptors that are sent alongside
- * a DBus message.
+ * a D-Bus message.
*
- * If you are not interacting with DBus, then there is no reason to make
+ * If you are not interacting with D-Bus, then there is no reason to make
* use of this type.
**/
#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_HANDLE ((const GVariantType *) "h")
#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_DICTIONARY ((const GVariantType *) "a{?*}")
/**
+ * G_VARIANT_TYPE_STRING_ARRAY:
+ *
+ * The type of an array of strings.
+ **/
+#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_STRING_ARRAY ((const GVariantType *) "as")
+
+/**
+ * G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH_ARRAY:
+ *
+ * The type of an array of object paths.
+ **/
+#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH_ARRAY ((const GVariantType *) "ao")
+
+/**
+ * G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING:
+ *
+ * The type of an array of bytes. This type is commonly used to pass
+ * around strings that may not be valid utf8. In that case, the
+ * convention is that the nul terminator character should be included as
+ * the last character in the array.
+ **/
+#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING ((const GVariantType *) "ay")
+
+/**
+ * G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING_ARRAY:
+ *
+ * The type of an array of byte strings (an array of arrays of bytes).
+ **/
+#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING_ARRAY ((const GVariantType *) "aay")
+
+/**
+ * G_VARIANT_TYPE_VARDICT:
+ *
+ * The type of a dictionary mapping strings to variants (the ubiquitous
+ * "a{sv}" type).
+ *
+ * Since: 2.30
+ **/
+#define G_VARIANT_TYPE_VARDICT ((const GVariantType *) "a{sv}")
+
+
+/**
* G_VARIANT_TYPE:
* @type_string: a well-formed #GVariantType type string
*
* to ensure that @string is a valid GVariant type string.
*
* It is always a programmer error to use this macro with an invalid
- * type string.
+ * type string. If in doubt, use g_variant_type_string_is_valid() to
+ * check if the string is valid.
*
* Since 2.24
**/
#endif
/* type string checking */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_string_is_valid (const gchar *type_string);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_string_scan (const gchar *string,
const gchar *limit,
const gchar **endptr);
/* create/destroy */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
void g_variant_type_free (GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GVariantType * g_variant_type_copy (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GVariantType * g_variant_type_new (const gchar *type_string);
/* getters */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gsize g_variant_type_get_string_length (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
const gchar * g_variant_type_peek_string (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gchar * g_variant_type_dup_string (const GVariantType *type);
/* classification */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_definite (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_container (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_basic (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_maybe (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_array (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_tuple (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_dict_entry (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_variant (const GVariantType *type);
/* for hash tables */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
guint g_variant_type_hash (gconstpointer type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_equal (gconstpointer type1,
gconstpointer type2);
/* subtypes */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_variant_type_is_subtype_of (const GVariantType *type,
const GVariantType *supertype);
/* type iterator interface */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
const GVariantType * g_variant_type_element (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
const GVariantType * g_variant_type_first (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
const GVariantType * g_variant_type_next (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gsize g_variant_type_n_items (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
const GVariantType * g_variant_type_key (const GVariantType *type);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
const GVariantType * g_variant_type_value (const GVariantType *type);
/* constructors */
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_array (const GVariantType *element);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_maybe (const GVariantType *element);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_tuple (const GVariantType * const *items,
gint length);
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GVariantType * g_variant_type_new_dict_entry (const GVariantType *key,
const GVariantType *value);
/*< private >*/
+GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
const GVariantType * g_variant_type_checked_ (const gchar *);
G_END_DECLS
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