shared: add nm_utils_gbytes_to_variant_ay() util

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.c b/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.c
index 96b5f2acab..43981e3177 100644
--- a/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.c
+++ b/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.c
@@ -117,6 +117,23 @@ nm_utils_strbuf_append (char **buf, gsize *len, const char *format, ...)
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
+GVariant *
+nm_utils_gbytes_to_variant_ay (GBytes *bytes)
+{
+	const guint8 *p;
+	gsize l;
+
+	if (!bytes) {
+		/* for convenience, accept NULL to return an empty variant */
+		return g_variant_new_array (G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTE, NULL, 0);
+	}
+
+	p = g_bytes_get_data (bytes, &l);
+	return g_variant_new_fixed_array (G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTE, p, l, 1);
+}
+
+/*****************************************************************************/
+
 /**
  * nm_strquote:
  * @buf: the output buffer of where to write the quoted @str argument.
diff --git a/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.h b/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.h
index 265d2ded36..0670c6c2f6 100644
--- a/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.h
+++ b/shared/nm-utils/nm-shared-utils.h
@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ nm_utils_is_separator (const char c)
 
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
+GVariant *nm_utils_gbytes_to_variant_ay (GBytes *bytes);
+
+/*****************************************************************************/
+
 const char *nm_utils_dbus_path_get_last_component (const char *dbus_path);
 
 int nm_utils_dbus_path_cmp (const char *dbus_path_a, const char *dbus_path_b);