### Method

# Gimp Metadata serialize

since: 2.10

#### Declaration [src]

    gchar*
    gimp_metadata_serialize (
      GimpMetadata* metadata
    )

#### Description [src]

Serializes `metadata` into an XML string that can later be deserialized using gimp_metadata_deserialize().

Available since: 2.10

#### Return value

Type: `gchar*`

The serialized XML string.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.