### Method

# Gcr CertificateRequest encode

#### Declaration [src]

    guchar*
    gcr_certificate_request_encode (
      GcrCertificateRequest* self,
      gboolean textual,
      gsize* length
    )

#### Description [src]

Encode the certificate request. It must have been completed with `gcr_certificate_request_complete()` or `gcr_certificate_request_complete_async()`.

If `textual` is `FALSE`, the output is a DER encoded certificate request.

If `textual` is `TRUE`, the output is encoded as text. For PKCS#10 requests this is done using the OpenSSL style PEM encoding.

#### Parameters

`textual`

  Type: `gboolean`

  Whether to encode output as text.

`length`

  Type: `gsize*`

  Location to place length of returned data.

  The argument will be set by the function.

#### Return value

Type: An array of `guchar`

The encoded certificate request.

The length of the array is in the `length` argument.
The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.