Function

GLibUriparse_scheme

since: 2.16

Declaration 

char*
g_uri_parse_scheme (
  const char* uri
)

Description

Gets the scheme portion of a URI string. RFC 3986 decodes the scheme as:

URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]

Common schemes include file, https, svn+ssh, etc.

Available since: 2.16

Parameters

uri

Type: const char*

A valid URI.

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

Return value

Type: char*

The ‘scheme’ component of the URI, or NULL on error. The returned string should be freed when no longer needed.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The return value can be NULL.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.