soup-message-body: Add a soup_buffer_get_as_bytes method

This new method will return a GBytes instance containing the
contents of the SoupBuffer.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676776

3 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/reference/libsoup-2.4-sections.txt b/docs/reference/libsoup-2.4-sections.txt
index 8731edd9..87633c77 100644
--- a/docs/reference/libsoup-2.4-sections.txt
+++ b/docs/reference/libsoup-2.4-sections.txt
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ soup_buffer_get_owner
 soup_buffer_get_data
 soup_buffer_copy
 soup_buffer_free
+soup_buffer_get_as_bytes
 <SUBSECTION>
 SoupMessageBody
 soup_message_body_new
diff --git a/libsoup/soup-message-body.c b/libsoup/soup-message-body.c
index daf9d1ec..899c04a4 100644
--- a/libsoup/soup-message-body.c
+++ b/libsoup/soup-message-body.c
@@ -308,6 +308,24 @@ soup_buffer_free (SoupBuffer *buffer)
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * soup_buffer_get_as_bytes:
+ * @buffer: a #SoupBuffer
+ *
+ * Returns: (transfer full): a new #GBytes which has the same content
+ * as the #SoupBuffer.
+ *
+ * Since: 2.40
+ */
+GBytes *
+soup_buffer_get_as_bytes (SoupBuffer *buffer)
+{
+	SoupBuffer *copy;
+
+	copy = soup_buffer_copy (buffer);
+	return g_bytes_new_with_free_func (copy->data, copy->length, soup_buffer_free, copy);
+}
+
 GType
 soup_buffer_get_type (void)
 {
diff --git a/libsoup/soup-message-body.h b/libsoup/soup-message-body.h
index 4edaaf0f..ee840837 100644
--- a/libsoup/soup-message-body.h
+++ b/libsoup/soup-message-body.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ void        soup_buffer_get_data       (SoupBuffer     *buffer,
 					gsize          *length);
 SoupBuffer *soup_buffer_copy           (SoupBuffer     *buffer);
 void        soup_buffer_free           (SoupBuffer     *buffer);
+GBytes     *soup_buffer_get_as_bytes   (SoupBuffer *buffer);
 
 typedef struct {
 	const char *data;