Marshalling bytewise data with Glib bindings

[Matt Hoosier]

On 5/21/07, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> Matt Hoosier wrote:
> >Is there a suitable datatype to use as the contents of a GValue, which
> >the dbus-glib bindings will understand natively? Shoehorning this
> >stuff into GValue whose type is G_TYPE_STRING sounds bad; the first 0
> >byte will cause the bindings to think that the "string" is finished,
> >and UTF-8 enforcement will probably choke on this method anyway.
>
> ARRAY of BYTE should do it.
>
> STRING should be used only for properly-encoded UTF-8 data. NULs are
> allowed, but arbitrary binary data isn't.

Sorry; I should have been more clear. I'm attempting to send a
dictionary style data structure across D-Bus as an "a{sv}". What Glib
datatype stuck inside a GValue (e.g., a boxed GArray or similar) will
be automatically recognized as a legal instance of the "v" D-Bus type?

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