Method

GioFileset_attribute

Declaration

gboolean
g_file_set_attribute (
  GFile* file,
  const char* attribute,
  GFileAttributeType type,
  gpointer value_p,
  GFileQueryInfoFlags flags,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Sets an attribute in the file with attribute name attribute to value_p.

Some attributes can be unset by setting type to G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_INVALID and value_p to NULL.

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

Parameters

`attribute`	`const char*`
	A string containing the attribute’s name.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
	The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
`type`	`GFileAttributeType`
	The type of the attribute.
`value_p`	`gpointer`
	A pointer to the value (or the pointer itself if the type is a pointer type)
	The argument can be `NULL`.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`flags`	`GFileQueryInfoFlags`
	A set of `GFileQueryInfoFlags`.
`cancellable`	`GCancellable`
	Optional `GCancellable` object, `NULL` to ignore.
	The argument can be `NULL`.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`error`	`GError **`
	The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

Return value

Returns:	`gboolean`
	`TRUE` if the attribute was set, `FALSE` otherwise.