The code generated by gdbus-codegen(1) is designed in a way so the generated code has non-reffing getters so it's easy to use in the case where your GDBusProxy or GDBusInterfaceSkeleton is used from the same thread as you've got it from.

Right now gdbus-codegen(1) implements this in a very clumsy way that includes allocating memory etc. My plan, however, is to change this by directly accessing the memory in the GVariant instance (in the GDBusProxy case).

This is however complicated by the fact that

 const gchar **g_variant_get_strv()

expects you to free the container (and I know why it's implemented this way). So I would like to propose

 const gchar * const *g_variant_peek_strv()
 (including _objv and _bytestring_array variants)

that frees the container for you when finalizing the GVariant instance. That way I won't have to do that in generated code.

Thanks for considering.