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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: © 2021 Matthias Andreas Benkard <code@mail.matthias.benkard.de>
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
package eu.mulk.jgvariant.core;
import org.apiguardian.api.API;
import org.apiguardian.api.API.Status;
/**
* A dynamically typed GVariant value carrying a {@link Signature} describing its type.
*
* <p>{@link #value()} can be of one of the following types:
*
* <ul>
* <li>{@link Boolean}
* <li>{@link Byte}
* <li>{@link Short}
* <li>{@link Integer}
* <li>{@link Long}
* <li>{@link String}
* <li>{@link java.util.Optional} (a GVariant {@code Maybe} type)
* <li>{@link java.util.List} (a GVariant array)
* <li>{@code Object[]} (a GVariant structure)
* <li>{@link java.util.Map} (a dictionary)
* <li>{@link java.util.Map.Entry} (a dictionary entry)
* <li>{@link Variant} (a nested variant)
* </ul>
*
* @param signature the signature describing the type of the value.
* @param value the value itself; one of {@link Boolean}, {@link Byte}, {@link Short}, {@link
* Integer}, {@link Long}, {@link String}, {@link java.util.Optional}, {@link java.util.List},
* {@code Object[]}, {@link Variant}.
*/
@API(status = Status.EXPERIMENTAL)
public record Variant(Signature signature, Object value) {}