gvariant v0.2.0

GVariant.js

A JavaScript implementation of the GVariant serialization specification. It maps serialized GVariants to native JavaScript values.

var gvariant = require('gvariant');

var data = new Buffer([0x2a, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0]);
var value = gvariant.parse('u', data);

console.log(value);

Type Mapping

Booleans (b) map to JavaScript booleans.

Bytes (y) and all GVariant number types (n, q, i, u, x, t, and d) map to JavaScript numbers. Note that precision can be lost for the 64 bit integer types, because JavaScript represents numbers as IEEE 754 double floating point values.

Strings (s) map to JavaScript strings. Object paths (o) and signatures (g) are aliases for s.

Arrays (a<type>) map to the Array type, unless <type> is a dictionary entry ({}), in which case they map to Object. Tuples (()) also map to Array.

Variants (v) map to an object with type set to the variant's type string and value to the JavaScript representation of its value.

Maybes (m<type>) map to the JavaScript representation of their content in the Just case and to to null in the Nothing case.