Function

Gioresources_open_stream

since: 2.32

Declaration

GInputStream*
g_resources_open_stream (
  const char* path,
  GResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags,
  GError** error
)

Description

Looks for a file at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources and returns a GInputStream that lets you read the data.

lookup_flags controls the behaviour of the lookup.

Available since: 2.32

Parameters

path

Type: const char*

A pathname inside the resource.

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

Type: GResourceLookupFlags

A GResourceLookupFlags.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the function if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GInputStream

GInputStream or NULL on error. Free the returned object with g_object_unref()

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