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SD_BUS_...ND_BASIC(3)  sd_bus_message_append_basic SD_BUS_...ND_BASIC(3)

NAME         top

       sd_bus_message_append_basic - Attach a single field to a message

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <systemd/sd-bus.h>

       int sd_bus_message_append_basic(sd_bus_message *m, char type,
                                       const void *p);

DESCRIPTION         top

       sd_bus_message_append_basic() appends a single field to the
       message m. The parameter type determines how the pointer p is
       interpreted.  type must be one of the basic types as defined by
       the Basic Types[1] section of the D-Bus specification, and listed
       in the table below.

       Table 1. Item type specifiers
       ┌───────────┬─────────────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────┬────────────┐
       │ Specifier Constant                Description    Size     Expected C │
       │           │                         │                │          │ Type       │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "y"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_BYTE        │ unsigned       │ 1 byte   │ uint8_t    │
       │           │                         │ integer        │          │            │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "b"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_BOOLEAN     │ boolean        │ 4 bytes  │ int        │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "n"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_INT16       │ signed         │ 2 bytes  │ int16_t    │
       │           │                         │ integer        │          │            │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "q"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_UINT16      │ unsigned       │ 2 bytes  │ uint16_t   │
       │           │                         │ integer        │          │            │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "i"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_INT32       │ signed         │ 4 bytes  │ int32_t    │
       │           │                         │ integer        │          │            │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "u"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_UINT32      │ unsigned       │ 4 bytes  │ uint32_t   │
       │           │                         │ integer        │          │            │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "x"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_INT64       │ signed         │ 8 bytes  │ int64_t    │
       │           │                         │ integer        │          │            │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "t"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_UINT64      │ unsigned       │ 8 bytes  │ uint64_t   │
       │           │                         │ integer        │          │            │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "d"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_DOUBLE      │ floating-point │ 8 bytes  │ double     │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "s"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_STRING      │ Unicode string │ variable │ char[]     │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "o"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH │ object path    │ variable │ char[]     │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "g"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_SIGNATURE   │ signature      │ variable │ char[]     │
       ├───────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
       │ "h"       │ SD_BUS_TYPE_UNIX_FD     │ UNIX file      │ 4 bytes  │ int        │
       │           │                         │ descriptor     │          │            │
       └───────────┴─────────────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┴────────────┘

       The value of the parameter is copied into a memory area held by
       the message object, stays in the possession of the caller and may
       hence be freely changed after this call without affecting the bus
       message it has been added to. If type is "h" (UNIX file
       descriptor), the descriptor is duplicated by this call and the
       passed descriptor stays in possession of the caller.

       For types "s", "o", and "g", the parameter p is interpreted as a
       pointer to a NUL-terminated character sequence. As a special
       case, a NULL pointer is interpreted as an empty string. The
       string should be valid Unicode string encoded as UTF-8. In case
       of the two latter types, the additional requirements for a D-Bus
       object path or type signature should be satisfied. Those
       requirements should be verified by the recipient of the message.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, this call returns 0 or a positive integer. On
       failure, it returns a negative errno-style error code.

   Errors
       Returned errors may indicate the following problems:

       -EINVAL
           Specified parameter is invalid.

       -EPERM
           Message has been sealed.

       -ESTALE
           Message is in invalid state.

       -ENXIO
           Message cannot be appended to.

       -ENOMEM
           Memory allocation failed.

NOTES         top

       Functions described here are available as a shared library, which
       can be compiled against and linked to with the
       libsystemd pkg-config(1) file.

       The code described here uses getenv(3), which is declared to be
       not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the
       functions described here must not call setenv(3) from a parallel
       thread. It is recommended to only do calls to setenv() from an
       early phase of the program when no other threads have been
       started.

SEE ALSO         top

       systemd(1), sd-bus(3), sd_bus_message_read_basic(3),
       sd_bus_message_append(3), The D-Bus specification[2]

NOTES         top

        1. Basic Types
           https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#basic-types

        2. The D-Bus specification
           https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html

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