Function

GioFileAttributeMatchernew

Declaration 

GFileAttributeMatcher*
g_file_attribute_matcher_new (
  const char* attributes
)

Description

Creates a new file attribute matcher, which matches attributes against a given string. GFileAttributeMatchers are reference counted structures, and are created with a reference count of 1. If the number of references falls to 0, the GFileAttributeMatcher is automatically destroyed.

The attributes string should be formatted with specific keys separated from namespaces with a double colon. Several “namespace::key” strings may be concatenated with a single comma (e.g. “standard::type,standard::is-hidden”). The wildcard “” may be used to match all keys and namespaces, or “namespace::” will match all keys in a given namespace.

Examples of file attribute matcher strings and results

  • "*": matches all attributes.
  • "standard::is-hidden": matches only the key is-hidden in the standard namespace.
  • "standard::type,unix::*": matches the type key in the standard namespace and all keys in the unix namespace.

Parameters

attributes

Type: const char*

An attribute string to match.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: GFileAttributeMatcher

A GFileAttributeMatcher.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.