I just pushed mostly complete bindings of GVariant and GVariantType:
<https://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib/commit/?id=d0c52b8bb864a3377403623589f1c0cd8482717b>.
After installation, rough docs are available via "perldoc
Glib::Variant" and "perldoc Glib::VariantType". Here is the initial
section of the former:
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NAME
Glib::Variant - strongly typed value datatype
SYNOPSIS
my $v = Glib::Variant->new ('as', ['GTK+', 'Perl']);
my $aref = $v->get ('as');
DESCRIPTION
There are two sets of APIs for creating and dealing with
"Glib::Variant"s: the low-level API described below under
"METHODS", and the convenience API described in this section.
CONVENIENCE API
variant = Glib::Variant->new ($format_string, $value)
(variant1, ...) = Glib::Variant->new ($format_string, $value1, ...)
Constructs a variant from $format_string and $value. Also
supports constructing multiple variants when the format string
is a concatenation of multiple types.
value = $variant->get ($format_string)
Deconstructs $variant according to $format_string.
The following symbols are currently supported in format strings:
+------------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Symbol | Meaning |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------+
| b, y, n, q, i, u, x, t, h, d | Boolean, byte and numeric types |
| s, o, g | String types |
| v | Variant types |
| a | Arrays |
| m | Maybe types |
| () | Tuples |
| {} | Dictionary entries |
+------------------------------+---------------------------------+
Note that if a format string specifies an array, a tuple or a
dictionary entry ("a", "()" or "{}"), then array references are
expected by "new" and produced by "get". For arrays of dictionary
entries ("a{}"), hash references are also supported by "new" and
handled as you would expect.
For a complete specification, see the documentation at
<https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-GVariantType.html>
<https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-GVariant.html>
<https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/gvariant-format-strings.html>
<https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/gvariant-text.html>
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Please try this new code and let me know what you think, especially if
anything is missing.
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