Json.gvariant_serialize_data
Description: Reference for Json.gvariant_serialize_data

### Function

# Jsongvariant_serialize_data

since: 0.14

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    json_gvariant_serialize_data (
      GVariant* variant,
      gsize* length
    )

#### Description [src]

Converts `variant` to its JSON encoded string representation.

This is a convenience function around `json_gvariant_serialize()`, to obtain the JSON tree, and then `JsonGenerator` to stringify it.

Available since: 0.14

#### Parameters

`variant`

  Type: `GVariant`

  A `GVariant` to convert.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.

`length`

  Type: `gsize*`

  The length of the returned string.

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The argument can be `NULL`.

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

The JSON encoded string corresponding to the given variant.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.