Sending a byte array (type `ay`) over D-Bus using GDBus

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user3148743 picture user3148743 · Apr 8, 2014 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

I am trying to a byte array over D-Bus using the GDBus bindings. Can you please let me know how I can achive that. I tried googling but didnt help.

Byte array contains a image file so cannot be converted to charbytearray

Any help is appriciated

Answer

cyrax picture cyrax · Jul 23, 2014

I did some tests using an XML where I used the type ay. This works well with the QT binding (generated with qdbusxml2cpp) where it translates into QByteArray however it seems that it doesn't work with the glib binding (generated with gdbus-codegen) where it translates in gchar * and it seems you lose what's after \0 - because somehow it's handled as a string. However you will find that:

This automatic mapping can be turned off by using the annotation org.gtk.GDBus.C.ForceGVariant - if used then a GVariant is always exchanged instead of the corresponding native C type. This annotation may be convenient to use when using bytestrings (type-string ay) for data that could have embedded NUL bytes.

Which means according to https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/gdbus-codegen.html that you could handle it as GVariant. I tested this by adding the tag for annotation org.gtk.GDBus.C.ForceGVariant <annotation name="org.gtk.GDBus.C.ForceGVariant" value="true"/> on each arg and it works.

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