D-Bus Utilities: GIO Reference Manual

## D-Bus Utilities D-Bus Utilities — Various utilities related to D-Bus |

## Functions

gchar * | g_dbus_generate_guid ()
gboolean | g_dbus_is_guid ()
gboolean | g_dbus_is_name ()
gboolean | g_dbus_is_unique_name ()
gboolean | g_dbus_is_member_name ()
gboolean | g_dbus_is_interface_name ()
GVariant * | g_dbus_gvalue_to_gvariant ()
void | g_dbus_gvariant_to_gvalue ()

## Includes

    #include <gio/gio.h>

## Description

Various utility routines related to D-Bus.

## Functions

### g_dbus_generate_guid ()

    gchar *
    g_dbus_generate_guid (void);

Generate a D-Bus GUID that can be used with e.g. `g_dbus_connection_new()`.

See the D-Bus specification regarding what strings are valid D-Bus GUID (for example, D-Bus GUIDs are not RFC-4122 compliant).

#### Returns

A valid D-Bus GUID. Free with `g_free()`.

Since 2.26

### g_dbus_is_guid ()

    gboolean
    g_dbus_is_guid (const gchar *string);

Checks if `string` is a D-Bus GUID.

See the D-Bus specification regarding what strings are valid D-Bus GUID (for example, D-Bus GUIDs are not RFC-4122 compliant).

#### Parameters

string | The string to check. |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if `string` is a guid, `FALSE` otherwise.

Since 2.26

### g_dbus_is_name ()

    gboolean
    g_dbus_is_name (const gchar *string);

Checks if `string` is a valid D-Bus bus name (either unique or well-known).

#### Parameters

string | The string to check. |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if valid, `FALSE` otherwise.

Since 2.26

### g_dbus_is_unique_name ()

    gboolean
    g_dbus_is_unique_name (const gchar *string);

Checks if `string` is a valid D-Bus unique bus name.

#### Parameters

string | The string to check. |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if valid, `FALSE` otherwise.

Since 2.26

### g_dbus_is_member_name ()

    gboolean
    g_dbus_is_member_name (const gchar *string);

Checks if `string` is a valid D-Bus member (e.g. signal or method) name.

#### Parameters

string | The string to check. |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if valid, `FALSE` otherwise.

Since 2.26

### g_dbus_is_interface_name ()

    gboolean
    g_dbus_is_interface_name (const gchar *string);

Checks if `string` is a valid D-Bus interface name.

#### Parameters

string | The string to check. |

#### Returns

`TRUE` if valid, `FALSE` otherwise.

Since 2.26

### g_dbus_gvalue_to_gvariant ()

    GVariant *
    g_dbus_gvalue_to_gvariant (const GValue *gvalue,
                               const GVariantType *type);

Converts a GValue to a GVariant of the type indicated by the `type` parameter.

The conversion is using the following rules:

- G_TYPE_STRING: 's', 'o', 'g' or 'ay'

- G_TYPE_STRV: 'as', 'ao' or 'aay'

- G_TYPE_BOOLEAN: 'b'

- G_TYPE_UCHAR: 'y'

- G_TYPE_INT: 'i', 'n'

- G_TYPE_UINT: 'u', 'q'

- G_TYPE_INT64 'x'

- G_TYPE_UINT64: 't'

- G_TYPE_DOUBLE: 'd'

- G_TYPE_VARIANT: Any GVariantType

This can fail if e.g. `gvalue` is of type G_TYPE_STRING and `type` is 'i'. It will also fail for any GType (including e.g. G_TYPE_OBJECT and G_TYPE_BOXED derived-types) not in the table above.

Note that if `gvalue` is of type G_TYPE_VARIANT and its value is `NULL`, the empty GVariant instance (never `NULL`) for `type` is returned (e.g. 0 for scalar types, the empty string for string types, '/' for object path types, the empty array for any array type and so on).

See the `g_dbus_gvariant_to_gvalue()` function for how to convert a GVariant to a GValue.

#### Parameters

gvalue | A GValue to convert to a GVariant |
type | A GVariantType |

#### Returns

A GVariant (never floating) of GVariantType `type` holding the data from `gvalue` or `NULL` in case of failure. Free with `g_variant_unref()`.

Since 2.30

### g_dbus_gvariant_to_gvalue ()

    void
    g_dbus_gvariant_to_gvalue (GVariant *value,
                               GValue *out_gvalue);

Converts a GVariant to a GValue. If `value` is floating, it is consumed.

The rules specified in the `g_dbus_gvalue_to_gvariant()` function are used - this function is essentially its reverse form.

The conversion never fails - a valid GValue is always returned in `out_gvalue` .

#### Parameters

value | A GVariant. |
out_gvalue | Return location pointing to a zero-filled (uninitialized) GValue. | [out]

Since 2.30

## Types and Values