Permission

Permission

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

public abstract class Permission : Object

A Permission represents the status of the caller's permission to perform a certain action.

You can query if the action is currently allowed and if it is possible to acquire the permission so that the action will be allowed in the future.

There is also an API to actually acquire the permission and one to release it.

As an example, a Permission might represent the ability for the user to write to a Settings object. This Permission object could then be used to decide if it is appropriate to show a "Click here to unlock" button in a dialog and to provide the mechanism to invoke when that button is clicked.

All known sub-classes:

SimplePermission

Namespace: GLib

Package: gio-2.0

Content:

Properties:

public bool allowed { get; }
true if the caller currently has permission to perform the action that permission represents the permission to perform.
public bool can_acquire { get; }
true if it is generally possible to acquire the permission by calling acquire.
public bool can_release { get; }
true if it is generally possible to release the permission by calling release.

Creation methods:

protected Permission ()

Methods:

public virtual bool acquire (Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
Attempts to acquire the permission represented by this.
public virtual async bool acquire_async (Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
Attempts to acquire the permission represented by this.
public bool get_allowed ()
Gets the value of the 'allowed' property.
public bool get_can_acquire ()
Gets the value of the 'can-acquire' property.
public bool get_can_release ()
Gets the value of the 'can-release' property.
public void impl_update (bool allowed, bool can_acquire, bool can_release)
This function is called by the Permission implementation to update the properties of the permission.
public virtual bool release (Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
Attempts to release the permission represented by this.
public virtual async bool release_async (Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
Attempts to release the permission represented by this.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object