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  • Committer: Package Import Robot
  • Author(s): Andreas Henriksson
  • Date: 2014-03-24 20:58:34 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.66.13)
  • Revision ID: package-import@ubuntu.com-20140324205834-8hsgok8k36ftocqa
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<p><a class="link" href="glib-GVariant.html#GVariant" title="GVariant"><span class="type">GVariant</span></a> is largely compatible with D-Bus.  Almost all types of
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<a class="link" href="glib-GVariant.html#GVariant" title="GVariant"><span class="type">GVariant</span></a> instances can be sent over D-Bus.  See <a class="link" href="glib-GVariantType.html#GVariantType" title="GVariantType"><span class="type">GVariantType</span></a> for
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exceptions.  (However, <a class="link" href="glib-GVariant.html#GVariant" title="GVariant"><span class="type">GVariant</span></a>'s serialisation format is not the same
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as the serialisation format of a D-Bus message body: use <a href="../gio/GDBusMessage.html"><span class="type">GDBusMessage</span></a>,
 
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as the serialisation format of a D-Bus message body: use <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/GDBusMessage.html"><span class="type">GDBusMessage</span></a>,
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in the gio library, for those.)</p>
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<p>For space-efficiency, the <a class="link" href="glib-GVariant.html#GVariant" title="GVariant"><span class="type">GVariant</span></a> serialisation format does not
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automatically include the variant's type or endianness, which must
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check fails then a <a class="link" href="glib-Message-Logging.html#g-critical" title="g_critical()"><code class="function">g_critical()</code></a> is printed and <a class="link" href="glib-Standard-Macros.html#FALSE:CAPS" title="FALSE"><code class="literal">FALSE</code></a> is returned.</p>
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<p>This function is meant to be used by functions that wish to provide
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varargs accessors to <a class="link" href="glib-GVariant.html#GVariant" title="GVariant"><span class="type">GVariant</span></a> values of uncertain values (eg:
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<a class="link" href="glib-GVariant.html#g-variant-lookup" title="g_variant_lookup ()"><code class="function">g_variant_lookup()</code></a> or <a href="../gio/GMenuModel.html#g-menu-model-get-item-attribute"><code class="function">g_menu_model_get_item_attribute()</code></a>).</p>
 
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<a class="link" href="glib-GVariant.html#g-variant-lookup" title="g_variant_lookup ()"><code class="function">g_variant_lookup()</code></a> or <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/GMenuModel.html#g-menu-model-get-item-attribute"><code class="function">g_menu_model_get_item_attribute()</code></a>).</p>
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<div class="refsect3">
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<a name="id-1.6.19.7.13.7"></a><h4>Parameters</h4>
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<div class="informaltable"><table width="100%" border="0">