On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 6:44 PM Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:39:47 +0000 > Stanislav Angelovič <stanislav.angelo...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I have a quick question: is there a way to get container size when > > deserializing an array from a D-Bus message (be it an array of trivial or > > non-trivial D-Bus types)? Say I enter a container with > > sd_bus_message_enter_container, and then, before reading individual > > elements, I'd like to get the number of elements in that array in that > > message (so I can reserve storage on my side, etc.). > > > > If not, could such an API function be added? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Stanislav. > > The dbus messsage just an encoding of a byte stream. There is nothing in the > byte stream > that indicates the length.
yes, but the whole message is available locally, it could be parsed on request, discarding the data, and keeping only the number of elements in an array.
