Function

GIRepositoryRepositorydump

since: 2.80

Declaration

gboolean
gi_repository_dump (
  const char* input_filename,
  const char* output_filename,
  GError** error
)

Description

Dump the introspection data from the types specified in input_filename to output_filename.

The input file should be a UTF-8 Unix-line-ending text file, with each line containing either get-type: followed by the name of a GType _get_type function, or error-quark: followed by the name of an error quark function. No extra whitespace is allowed.

This function will overwrite the contents of the output file.

Available since: 2.80

Parameters

input_filename

Type: const char*

Input filename (for example input.txt)

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.

output_filename

Type: const char*

Output filename (for example output.xml)

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.

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 function 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 on error.