From 893703018fbd310f873de0a4f882e3173bfe5097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier Claessens <xavier.claessens@collabora.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:53:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Variant: Add wrapper to construct "a{sv}" variant

---
 glib/Variant.cs | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/glib/Variant.cs b/glib/Variant.cs
index 674742e6d..ea401af8e 100644
--- a/glib/Variant.cs
+++ b/glib/Variant.cs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 using System;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 namespace GLib {
 
@@ -170,6 +171,19 @@ namespace GLib {
 			return new Variant (g_variant_new_dict_entry (k.Handle, v.Handle));
 		}
 
+		public Variant (IDictionary<string, Variant> dict)
+		{
+			VariantType type = VariantType.NewDictionaryEntry (
+				VariantType.String,
+				VariantType.Variant);
+
+			var pairs = new List<Variant> ();
+			foreach (var kvp in dict)
+				pairs.Add (NewDictEntry (new Variant (kvp.Key), NewVariant (kvp.Value)));
+
+			handle = g_variant_ref_sink (NewArray (type, pairs.ToArray ()).Handle);
+		}
+
 		[DllImport (Global.GLibNativeDll, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
 		static extern bool g_variant_get_boolean (IntPtr handle);