Method

GLibUriParamsIterinit

since: 2.66

Declaration

void
g_uri_params_iter_init (
  GUriParamsIter* iter,
  const gchar* params,
  gssize length,
  const gchar* separators,
  GUriParamsFlags flags
)

Description

Initializes an attribute/value pair iterator.

The iterator keeps pointers to the params and separators arguments, those variables must thus outlive the iterator and not be modified during the iteration.

If G_URI_PARAMS_WWW_FORM is passed in flags, + characters in the param string will be replaced with spaces in the output. For example, foo=bar+baz will give attribute foo with value bar baz. This is commonly used on the web (the https and http schemes only), but is deprecated in favour of the equivalent of encoding spaces as 20.

Unlike with g_uri_parse_params(), G_URI_PARAMS_CASE_INSENSITIVE has no effect if passed to flags for g_uri_params_iter_init(). The caller is responsible for doing their own case-insensitive comparisons.

GUriParamsIter iter;
GError *error = NULL;
gchar *unowned_attr, *unowned_value;

g_uri_params_iter_init (&iter, "foo=bar&baz=bar&Foo=frob&baz=bar2", -1, "&", G_URI_PARAMS_NONE);
while (g_uri_params_iter_next (&iter, &unowned_attr, &unowned_value, &error))
  {
    g_autofree gchar *attr = g_steal_pointer (&unowned_attr);
    g_autofree gchar *value = g_steal_pointer (&unowned_value);
    // do something with attr and value; this code will be called 4 times
    // for the params string in this example: once with attr=foo and value=bar,
    // then with baz/bar, then Foo/frob, then baz/bar2.
  }
if (error)
  // handle parsing error

Available since: 2.66

Parameters

params

Type: const gchar*

A %-encoded string containing attribute=value parameters.

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

Type: gssize

The length of params, or -1 if it is nul-terminated.

separators

Type: const gchar*

The separator byte character set between parameters. (usually &, but sometimes ; or both &;). Note that this function works on bytes not characters, so it can’t be used to delimit UTF-8 strings for anything but ASCII characters. You may pass an empty set, in which case no splitting will occur.

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

Type: GUriParamsFlags

Flags to modify the way the parameters are handled.