Function
GIRepositoryRepositorydump
since: 2.80
Declaration [src]
gboolean
gi_repository_dump (
const char* input_filename,
const char* output_filename,
GError** error
)
Description [src]
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 platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows. 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 platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows. 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 aNULL
GError*
.The argument will be 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.