Method

GioFileInfoget_attribute_as_string

Declaration [src]

char*
g_file_info_get_attribute_as_string (
  GFileInfo* info,
  const char* attribute
)

Description [src]

Gets the value of an attribute, formatted as a human readable string.

This escapes things as needed to make the string valid UTF-8 and readable by humans. It’s not meant to be a machine readable or reversible escaping format.

To format file name attributes of type G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_BYTE_STRING for output as UTF-8, use g_filename_to_utf8() instead:

const char *trash_orig_path_byte_string;
g_autofree char *trash_orig_path_utf8 = NULL;

trash_orig_path_byte_string = g_file_info_get_attribute_byte_string (info, G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TRASH_ORIG_PATH);
trash_orig_path_utf8 = g_filename_to_utf8 (trash_orig_path_byte_string, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
if (trash_orig_path_utf8 != NULL)
  g_message ("Some larger UTF-8 string with filename embedded as %s", trash_orig_path_utf8);

Parameters

attribute

Type: const char*

A file attribute key.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: char*

A UTF-8 string associated with the given attribute, or NULL if the attribute wasn’t set. When you’re done with the string it must be freed with g_free().

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

The return value can be NULL.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.