Seekable

Seekable

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

public interface Seekable : Object

Seekable is implemented by streams (implementations of InputStream or OutputStream) that support seeking.

Seekable streams largely fall into two categories: resizable and fixed-size.

Seekable on fixed-sized streams is approximately the same as POSIX lseek on a block device ( for example: attmepting to seek past the end of the device is an error). Fixed streams typically cannot be truncated.

Seekable on resizable streams is approximately the same as POSIX lseek on a normal file. Seeking past the end and writing data will usually cause the stream to resize by introducing zero bytes.

All known implementing classes:

Namespace: GLib

Package: gio-2.0

Content:

Methods:

public abstract bool can_seek ()
Tests if the stream supports the Seekable .
public abstract bool can_truncate ()
Tests if the stream can be truncated.
public abstract bool seek (int64 offset, SeekType type, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
Seeks in the stream by the given offset, modified by type.
public abstract int64 tell ()
Tells the current position within the stream.
public abstract bool truncate (int64 offset, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
Truncates a stream with a given offset.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object