The Variant(fromContent:) and Variant(fromContentPtr:) now make a

copy of the variants that they are passed upon creation.

This should fix #390.

Author: migueldeicaza

Generator/Generator/BuiltinGen.swift

@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ func generateBuiltinMethods (_ p: Printer,
                 p ("var result = Variant.zero")
                 p ("if Self.keyed_checker (&content, &keyCopy.content) != 0") {
                     p ("Self.keyed_getter (&content, &keyCopy.content, &result)")
-                    p ("return Variant (fromContent: result)")
+                    p ("return Variant (fromContentPtr: &result)")
                 }
                 p ("else") {
                     p ("return nil")

Generator/Generator/MethodGen.swift

@@ -307,11 +307,11 @@ func methodGen (_ p: Printer, method: MethodDefinition, className: String, cdef:
         guard returnType != "" else { return "" }
         if method.isVararg {
             if returnType == "Variant" {
-                return "return Variant (fromContent: _result)"
+                return "return Variant (fromContentPtr: &_result)"
             } else if returnType == "GodotError" {
-                return "return GodotError (rawValue: Int64 (Variant (fromContent: _result))!)!"
+                return "return GodotError (rawValue: Int64 (Variant (fromContentPtr: &_result))!)!"
             } else if returnType == "String" {
-                return "return GString (Variant (fromContent: _result))?.description ?? \"\""
+                return "return GString (Variant (fromContentPtr: &_result))?.description ?? \"\""
             } else {
                 fatalError("Do not support this return type = \(returnType)")
             }

Sources/SwiftGodot/Core/VariantCollection.swift

@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ public class VariantCollection<Element: VariantStorable>: Collection, Expressibl
     public final func append (value: Element) {
         array.append (value: Variant(value))
     }
+
+    /// Appends an element at the end of the array (alias of ``pushBack(value:)``).
+    public final func append (value: Element) where Element: ContentTypeStoring {
+	array.append (value: Variant(value))
+    }
 
     /// Resizes the array to contain a different number of elements. If the array size is smaller, elements are cleared, if bigger, new elements are `null`. Returns ``GodotError/ok`` on success, or one of the other ``GodotError`` values if the operation failed.
     ///

Sources/SwiftGodot/Variant.swift

@@ -67,16 +67,23 @@ public class Variant: Hashable, Equatable, CustomDebugStringConvertible {
     var content: ContentType = (0, 0, 0)
     static var zero: ContentType = (0, 0, 0)
 
-    /// Initializes from the raw contents of another Variant
+    /// Initializes from the raw contents of another Variant, this will make a copy of the variant contents
     init (fromContent: ContentType) {
-        content = fromContent
+        var copy = fromContent
+        gi.variant_new_copy (&content, &copy)
     }
-    
+
+    /// Initializes from the raw contents of another Variant, this will make a copy of the variant contents
+    init (fromContentPtr: inout ContentType) {
+        gi.variant_new_copy (&content, &fromContentPtr)
+    }
+
     deinit {
         if experimentalDisableVariantUnref { return }
         gi.variant_destroy (&content)
     }
 
+    /// Creates an empty Variant, that represents the Godot type `nil`
     public init () {
         withUnsafeMutablePointer(to: &content) { ptr in
             gi.variant_new_nil (ptr)