Hi Marcel,
> Hi Johan,
>
>   
>>> Are you OK with this patch ?
>>>       
>> I'm fine with it (although I don't have a good use case for it). However, 
>> it'll still need Marcel's blessing before being included.
>>     
>
> looks okay to me. Except there are two or three minor whitespace issues
> in the patch. One in a function call and others for the casts. Please
> fix them and then I am okay with that patch. I would prefer that apitest
> also gets updated to use these two new methods.
>
>   
Here is a new version of the patch updated. apitest is updated.
Hope it is OK.

Regards

Fred