Method

GIRepositoryRepositoryfind_by_name

since: 2.80

Declaration 

GIBaseInfo*
gi_repository_find_by_name (
  GIRepository* repository,
  const char* namespace_,
  const char* name
)

Description

Searches for a particular entry in a namespace.

Before calling this function for a particular namespace, you must call gi_repository_require() to load the namespace, or otherwise ensure the namespace has already been loaded.

Available since: 2.80

Parameters

namespace_

Type: const char*

Namespace which will be searched.

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

Type: const char*

Entry name to find.

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

Return value

Type: GIBaseInfo

GIBaseInfo representing metadata about name, or NULL if none found.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.