Method

GioInputStreamread_all

Declaration

gboolean
g_input_stream_read_all (
  GInputStream* stream,
  void* buffer,
  gsize count,
  gsize* bytes_read,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Tries to read count bytes from the stream into the buffer starting at buffer. Will block during this read.

This function is similar to g_input_stream_read(), except it tries to read as many bytes as requested, only stopping on an error or end of stream.

On a successful read of count bytes, or if we reached the end of the stream, TRUE is returned, and bytes_read is set to the number of bytes read into buffer.

If there is an error during the operation FALSE is returned and error is set to indicate the error status.

As a special exception to the normal conventions for functions that use GError, if this function returns FALSE (and sets error) then bytes_read will be set to the number of bytes that were successfully read before the error was encountered. This functionality is only available from C. If you need it from another language then you must write your own loop around g_input_stream_read().

Parameters

buffer

Type: An array of guint8

a buffer to read data into (which should be at least count bytes long).

The argument will be set by the function.
The length of the array is specified in the count argument.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
count

Type: gsize

The number of bytes that will be read from the stream.

bytes_read

Type: gsize*

Location to store the number of bytes that was read from the stream.

The argument will be set by the function.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
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 method 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: gboolean

TRUE on success, FALSE if there was an error.