GLib.VariantType.peek_string

### Method

# GLib VariantTypepeek_string

#### Declaration [src]

    const gchar*
    g_variant_type_peek_string (
      const GVariantType* type
    )

#### Description [src]

Returns the type string corresponding to the given `type`.

The result is not nul-terminated; in order to determine its length you must call `g_variant_type_get_string_length()`.

To get a nul-terminated string, see `g_variant_type_dup_string()`.

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

#### Return value

Type: `const gchar*`

The corresponding type string (not nul-terminated) Since 2.24.

The returned data is owned by the instance.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.