Method

GLibKeyFileload_from_data

since: 2.6

Declaration

gboolean
g_key_file_load_from_data (
  GKeyFile* key_file,
  const gchar* data,
  gsize length,
  GKeyFileFlags flags,
  GError** error
)

Description

Loads a key file from memory into an empty GKeyFile structure. If the object cannot be created then %error is set to a GKeyFileError.

Available since: 2.6

Parameters

data

Type: const gchar*

Key file loaded in memory.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

length

Type: gsize

The length of data in bytes (or (gsize)-1 if data is nul-terminated)

flags

Type: GKeyFileFlags

Flags from GKeyFileFlags.

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 if a key file could be loaded, FALSE otherwise.