diff --git a/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Decoder.java b/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Decoder.java
index d2f2403..fc11eab 100644
--- a/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Decoder.java
+++ b/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Decoder.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.function.Function;
 import org.apiguardian.api.API;
 import org.apiguardian.api.API.Status;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@
    * @param byteOrder the byte order to use.
    * @return a new, decorated {@link Decoder}.
    */
-  public Decoder<T> withByteOrder(ByteOrder byteOrder) {
+  public final Decoder<T> withByteOrder(ByteOrder byteOrder) {
     var delegate = this;
 
     return new Decoder<>() {
@@ -103,6 +104,34 @@
   }
 
   /**
+   * Creates a new {@link Decoder} from an existing one by applying a function to the result.
+   *
+   * @param function the function to apply.
+   * @return a new, decorated {@link Decoder}.
+   * @see java.util.stream.Stream#map
+   */
+  public final <U> Decoder<U> map(Function<T, U> function) {
+    var delegate = this;
+
+    return new Decoder<>() {
+      @Override
+      public byte alignment() {
+        return delegate.alignment();
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public @Nullable Integer fixedSize() {
+        return delegate.fixedSize();
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public U decode(ByteBuffer byteSlice) {
+        return function.apply(delegate.decode(byteSlice));
+      }
+    };
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Creates a {@link Decoder} for an {@code Array} type.
    *
    * @param elementDecoder a {@link Decoder} for the elements of the array.
@@ -114,6 +143,16 @@
   }
 
   /**
+   * Creates a {@link Decoder} for an {@code Array} type of element type {@code byte} into a
+   * primitive {@code byte[]} array.
+   *
+   * @return a new {@link Decoder}.
+   */
+  public static Decoder<byte[]> ofByteArray() {
+    return new ByteArrayDecoder();
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Creates a {@link Decoder} for a {@code Maybe} type.
    *
    * @param elementDecoder a {@link Decoder} for the contained element.
@@ -299,6 +338,9 @@
           var element = elementDecoder.decode(byteSlice.slice(i, elementSize));
           elements.add(element);
         }
+      } else if (byteSlice.limit() == 0) {
+        // A degenerate zero-length array of variable width.
+        elements = List.of();
       } else {
         // An array with aligned elements and a vector of framing offsets in the end.
         int framingOffsetSize = byteCount(byteSlice.limit());
@@ -321,6 +363,30 @@
     }
   }
 
+  private static class ByteArrayDecoder extends Decoder<byte[]> {
+
+    private static final int ELEMENT_SIZE = 1;
+
+    @Override
+    public byte alignment() {
+      return ELEMENT_SIZE;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @Nullable
+    Integer fixedSize() {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public byte[] decode(ByteBuffer byteSlice) {
+      // A simple C-style array.
+      byte[] elements = new byte[byteSlice.limit() / ELEMENT_SIZE];
+      byteSlice.get(elements);
+      return elements;
+    }
+  }
+
   private static class MaybeDecoder<U> extends Decoder<Optional<U>> {
 
     private final Decoder<U> elementDecoder;
diff --git a/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Signature.java b/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Signature.java
index d9de5f1..78e4bdd 100644
--- a/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Signature.java
+++ b/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/eu/mulk/jgvariant/core/Signature.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
     return new Signature(signatureBytes);
   }
 
-  static Signature parse(String signatureString) throws ParseException {
+  public static Signature parse(String signatureString) throws ParseException {
     var signatureBytes = ByteBuffer.wrap(signatureString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.US_ASCII));
     return parse(signatureBytes);
   }
diff --git a/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/module-info.java b/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/module-info.java
index a1830f6..0ef35cc 100644
--- a/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/jgvariant-core/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@
  *       <groupId>eu.mulk.jgvariant</groupId>
  *       <artifactId>jgvariant-core</artifactId>
  *     </dependency>
+ *     <dependency>
+ *       <groupId>eu.mulk.jgvariant</groupId>
+ *       <artifactId>jgvariant-ostree</artifactId>
+ *     </dependency>
  *
  *     ...
  *   </dependencies>
@@ -65,6 +69,7 @@
  *
  *   implementation(platform("eu.mulk.jgvariant:jgvariant-bom:0.1.4")
  *   implementation("eu.mulk.jgvariant:jgvariant-core")
+ *   implementation("eu.mulk.jgvariant:jgvariant-ostree")
  *
  *   ...
  * }