[Bug 30423] New: Provide convenience API for GVariant-based a{sv}s

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30423

           Summary: Provide convenience API for GVariant-based a{sv}s
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/smcv/telepathy-glib
                    -smcv.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/variant-map
        OS/Version: All
            Status: ASSIGNED
          Keywords: patch
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: tp-glib
        AssignedTo: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
            Blocks: 28782


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #28782 +++

As a migration path from dbus-glib to GDBus, we should provide GVariant
versions of things like tp_channel_borrow_immutable_properties(). To be useful,
this requires convenience API to look things up in a{sv}s.

I opened https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625408 and have discussed
this a bit with desrt; I now have a working prototype, TpVariantMap.

To avoid depending on a version of GLib that has no API guarantees,
TpVariantMap will initially be in telepathy-glib. We can deprecate it in favour
of a future GVariantMap, or make it an alias for that type, if necessary.

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