Method

GIRepositoryRepositoryget_info

since: 2.80

Declaration

GIBaseInfo*
gi_repository_get_info (
  GIRepository* repository,
  const char* namespace_,
  unsigned int idx
)

Description

This function returns a particular metadata entry in the given namespace namespace_.

The namespace must have already been loaded before calling this function. See gi_repository_get_n_infos() to find the maximum number of entries. It is an error to pass an invalid idx to this function.

Available since: 2.80

Parameters

namespace_

Type: const char*

Namespace to inspect.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

idx

Type: unsigned int

0-based offset into namespace metadata for entry.

Return value

Type: GIBaseInfo

GIBaseInfo containing metadata.

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