GLib

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Description:

Content:

Namespaces:

• Bus -
• ContentType -
• DBus -
• FileAttribute -
• VolumeIdentifier -

Interfaces:

• Action - Action represents a single named action.
• ActionGroup - ActionGroup represents a group of actions.
• ActionMap - The GActionMap interface is implemented by ActionGroup implementations that operate by containing a number of named Action instances, such as SimpleActionGroup.
• AppInfo - AppInfo and AppLaunchContext are used for describing and launching applications installed on the system.
• AsyncInitable - This is the asynchronous version of Initable; it behaves the same in all ways except that initialization is asynchronous.
• AsyncResult - Provides a base class for implementing asynchronous function results.
• Converter - Converter is implemented by objects that convert binary data in various ways.
• DBusInterface - The DBusInterface type is the base type for D-Bus interfaces both on the service side (see DBusInterfaceSkeleton) and client side (see DBusProxy).
• DBusObject - The DBusObject type is the base type for D-Bus objects on both the service side (see DBusObjectSkeleton) and the client side (see DBusObjectProxy).
• DBusObjectManager - The DBusObjectManager type is the base type for service- and client-side implementations of the standardized org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface.
• Drive - Drive - this represent a piece of hardware connected to the machine.
• File - File is a high level abstraction for manipulating files on a virtual file system.
• Icon - Icon is a very minimal interface for icons.
• Initable - Initable is implemented by objects that can fail during initialization.
• ListModel -
• LoadableIcon - Extends the Icon interface and adds the ability to load icons from streams.
• Mount - The Mount interface represents user-visible mounts.
• NetworkMonitor - NetworkMonitor provides an easy-to-use cross-platform API for monitoring network connectivity.
• PollableInputStream - PollableInputStream is implemented by InputStream s that can be polled for readiness to read.
• PollableOutputStream - PollableOutputStream is implemented by OutputStreams that can be polled for readiness to write.
• Proxy - A Proxy handles connecting to a remote host via a given type of proxy server.
• ProxyResolver - ProxyResolver provides synchronous and asynchronous network proxy resolution.
• RemoteActionGroup - The GRemoteActionGroup interface is implemented by ActionGroup instances that either transmit action invocations to other processes or receive action invocations in the local process from other processes.
• Seekable - Seekable is implemented by streams (implementations of InputStream or OutputStream) that support seeking.
• SocketConnectable - Objects that describe one or more potential socket endpoints implement SocketConnectable.
• TlsBackend - TLS (Transport Layer Security, aka SSL ) backend.
• TlsClientConnection - TlsClientConnection is the client-side subclass of TlsConnection, representing a client-side TLS connection.
• TlsFileDatabase - TlsFileDatabase is implemented by TlsDatabase objects which load their certificate information from a file.
• TlsServerConnection - TlsServerConnection is the server-side subclass of TlsConnection, representing a server-side TLS connection.
• Volume - The Volume interface represents user-visible objects that can be mounted.

Classes:

• AppInfoMonitor - AppInfoMonitor is a very simple object used for monitoring the app info database for changes (ie: newly installed or removed applications).
• AppLaunchContext - Integrating the launch with the launching application.
• Application - A Application is the foundation of an application.
• ApplicationCommandLine - ApplicationCommandLine represents a command-line invocation of an application.
• BufferedInputStream - Buffered input stream implements FilterInputStream and provides for buffered reads.
• BufferedOutputStream - Buffered output stream implements FilterOutputStream and provides for buffered writes.
• BytesIcon - BytesIcon specifies an image held in memory in a common format (usually png) to be used as icon.
• Cancellable - GCancellable is a thread-safe operation cancellation stack used throughout GIO to allow for cancellation of synchronous and asynchronous operations.
• CancellableSource -
• CharsetConverter - CharsetConverter is an implementation of Converter based on GIConv.
• ConverterInputStream - Converter input stream implements InputStream and allows conversion of data of various types during reading.
• ConverterOutputStream - Converter output stream implements OutputStream and allows conversion of data of various types during reading.
• Credentials - The Credentials type is a reference-counted wrapper for native credentials.
• DBusActionGroup - DBusActionGroup is an implementation of the ActionGroup interface that can be used as a proxy for an action group that is exported over D-Bus with export_action_group.
• DBusAnnotationInfo - Information about an annotation.
• DBusArgInfo - Information about an argument for a method or a signal.
• DBusAuthObserver - The DBusAuthObserver type provides a mechanism for participating in how a DBusServer (or a DBusConnection) authenticates remote peers.
• DBusConnection - The DBusConnection type is used for D-Bus connections to remote peers such as a message buses.
• DBusInterfaceInfo - Information about a D-Bus interface.
• DBusInterfaceSkeleton - Abstract base class for D-Bus interfaces on the service side.
• DBusMenuModel - DBusMenuModel is an implementation of MenuModel that can be used as a proxy for a menu model that is exported over D-Bus with export_menu_model.
• DBusMessage - A type for representing D-Bus messages that can be sent or received on a DBusConnection.
• DBusMethodInfo - Information about a method on an D-Bus interface.
• DBusMethodInvocation - Instances of the DBusMethodInvocation class are used when handling D-Bus method calls.
• DBusNodeInfo - Information about nodes in a remote object hierarchy.
• DBusObjectManagerClient - DBusObjectManagerClient is used to create, monitor and delete object proxies for remote objects exported by a DBusObjectManagerServer (or any code implementing the org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface).
• DBusObjectManagerServer - DBusObjectManagerServer is used to export DBusObject instances using the standardized org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager interface.
• DBusObjectProxy - A DBusObjectProxy is an object used to represent a remote object with one or more D-Bus interfaces.
• DBusObjectSkeleton - A DBusObjectSkeleton instance is essentially a group of D-Bus interfaces.
• DBusPropertyInfo - Information about a D-Bus property on a D-Bus interface.
• DBusProxy - DBusProxy is a base class used for proxies to access a D-Bus interface on a remote object.
• DBusServer - DBusServer is a helper for listening to and accepting D-Bus connections.
• DBusSignalInfo - Information about a signal on a D-Bus interface.
• DataInputStream - Data input stream implements InputStream and includes functions for reading structured data directly from a binary input stream.
• DataOutputStream - Data output stream implements OutputStream and includes functions for writing data directly to an output stream.
• Emblem - Emblem is an implementation of Icon that supports having an emblem, which is an icon with additional properties.
• EmblemedIcon - EmblemedIcon is an implementation of Icon that supports adding an emblem to an icon.
• FileAttributeInfoList - Acts as a lightweight registry for possible valid file attributes.
• FileAttributeMatcher - Determines if a string matches a file attribute.
• FileEnumerator - FileEnumerator allows you to operate on a set of Files, returning a FileInfo structure for each file enumerated (e.
• FileIOStream - GFileIOStream provides io streams that both read and write to the same file handle.
• FileIcon - FileIcon specifies an icon by pointing to an image file to be used as icon.
• FileInfo - Functionality for manipulating basic metadata for files.
• FileInputStream - GFileInputStream provides input streams that take their content from a file.
• FileMonitor - Monitors a file or directory for changes.
• FileOutputStream - GFileOutputStream provides output streams that write their content to a file.
• FilenameCompleter - Completes partial file and directory names given a partial string by looking in the file system for clues.
• FilterInputStream - Base class for input stream implementations that perform some kind of filtering operation on a base stream.
• FilterOutputStream - Base class for output stream implementations that perform some kind of filtering operation on a base stream.
• IOExtension -
• IOExtensionPoint -
• IOModule - Provides an interface and default functions for loading and unloading modules.
• IOModuleScope - Represents a scope for loading IO modules.
• IOSchedulerJob - Opaque class for defining and scheduling IO jobs.
• IOStream - GIOStream represents an object that has both read and write streams.
• IOStreamAdapter -
• InetAddress - InetAddress represents an IPv4 or IPv6 internet address.
• InetAddressMask - InetAddressMask represents a range of IPv4 or IPv6 addresses described by a base address and a length indicating how many bits of the base address are relevant for matching purposes.
• InetSocketAddress - An IPv4 or IPv6 socket address; that is, the combination of a InetAddress and a port number.
• InputStream - InputStream has functions to read from a stream (read), to close a stream (close) and to skip some content ( skip).
• ListStore -
• MemoryInputStream - MemoryInputStream is a class for using arbitrary memory chunks as input for GIO streaming input operations.
• MemoryOutputStream - MemoryOutputStream is a class for using arbitrary memory chunks as output for GIO streaming output operations.
• Menu - Menu is a simple implementation of MenuModel.
• MenuAttributeIter - MenuAttributeIter is an opaque structure type.
• MenuItem - MenuItem is an opaque structure type.
• MenuLinkIter - MenuLinkIter is an opaque structure type.
• MenuModel - MenuModel represents the contents of a menu -- an ordered list of menu items.
• MountOperation - MountOperation provides a mechanism for interacting with the user.
• NativeVolumeMonitor -
• NetworkAddress - NetworkAddress provides an easy way to resolve a hostname and then attempt to connect to that host, handling the possibility of multiple IP addresses and multiple address families.
• NetworkService - Like NetworkAddress does with hostnames, NetworkService provides an easy way to resolve a SRV record, and then attempt to connect to one of the hosts that implements that service, handling service priority/weighting, multiple IP addresses, and multiple address families.
• Notification - Notification is a mechanism for creating a notification to be shown to the user -- typically as a pop-up notification presented by the desktop environment shell.
• OutputStream - OutputStream has functions to write to a stream (write), to close a stream (close) and to flush pending writes ( flush).
• Permission - A Permission represents the status of the caller's permission to perform a certain action.
• PollableSource -
• PropertyAction - A PropertyAction is a way to get a Action with a state value reflecting and controlling the value of a Object property.
• ProxyAddress - Support for proxied InetSocketAddress.
• ProxyAddressEnumerator - A subclass of SocketAddressEnumerator that takes another address enumerator and wraps its results in ProxyAddress<!-- -->es as directed by the default ProxyResolver.
• Resolver - Resolver provides cancellable synchronous and asynchronous DNS resolution, for hostnames ( lookup_by_address, lookup_by_name and their async variants) and SRV (service) records (lookup_service).
• Resource - Applications and libraries often contain binary or textual data that is really part of the application, rather than user data.
• Settings - The Settings class provides a convenient API for storing and retrieving application settings.
• SettingsBackend - The SettingsBackend interface defines a generic interface for non-strictly-typed data that is stored in a hierarchy.
• SettingsSchema - The SettingsSchemaSource and SettingsSchema APIs provide a mechanism for advanced control over the loading of schemas and a mechanism for introspecting their content.
• SettingsSchemaKey -
• SettingsSchemaSource - This is an opaque structure type.
• SimpleAction - A SimpleAction is the obvious simple implementation of the Action interface.
• SimpleActionGroup - SimpleActionGroup is a hash table filled with Action objects, implementing the ActionGroup and ActionMap interfaces.
• SimpleAsyncResult - As of GLib 2.36, SimpleAsyncResult is deprecated in favor of Task, which provides a simpler API.
• SimpleIOStream -
• SimplePermission - SimplePermission is a trivial implementation of Permission that represents a permission that is either always or never allowed.
• SimpleProxyResolver - SimpleProxyResolver is a simple ProxyResolver implementation that handles a single default proxy, multiple URI-scheme-specific proxies, and a list of hosts that proxies should not be used for.
• Socket - A Socket is a low-level networking primitive.
• SocketAddress - SocketAddress is the equivalent of struct sockaddr in the BSD sockets API.
• SocketAddressEnumerator - Enumerator type for objects that contain or generate SocketAddress<!-- -->es.
• SocketClient - SocketClient is a lightweight high-level utility class for connecting to a network host using a connection oriented socket type.
• SocketConnection - SocketConnection is a IOStream for a connected socket.
• SocketControlMessage - A SocketControlMessage is a special-purpose utility message that can be sent to or received from a Socket.
• SocketListener - A SocketListener is an object that keeps track of a set of server sockets and helps you accept sockets from any of the socket, either sync or async.
• SocketService - A SocketService is an object that represents a service that is provided to the network or over local sockets.
• SocketSource - The `GSource` struct is an opaque data type representing an event source.
• SrvTarget - SRV (service) records are used by some network protocols to provide service-specific aliasing and load-balancing.
• Subprocess - Subprocess allows the creation of and interaction with child processes.
• SubprocessLauncher - This class contains a set of options for launching child processes, such as where its standard input and output will be directed, the argument list, the environment, and more.
• Task - A Task represents and manages a cancellable "task".
• TcpConnection - This is the subclass of SocketConnection that is created for TCP/IP sockets.
• TcpWrapperConnection - A TcpWrapperConnection can be used to wrap a IOStream that is based on a Socket, but which is not actually a SocketConnection.
• TestDBus - A helper class for testing code which uses D-Bus without touching the user's session bus.
• ThemedIcon - ThemedIcon is an implementation of Icon that supports icon themes.
• ThreadedSocketService - A ThreadedSocketService is a simple subclass of SocketService that handles incoming connections by creating a worker thread and dispatching the connection to it by emitting the run signal in the new thread.
• TlsCertificate - A certificate used for TLS authentication and encryption.
• TlsConnection - TlsConnection is the base TLS connection class type, which wraps a IOStream and provides TLS encryption on top of it.
• TlsDatabase - TlsDatabase is used to lookup certificates and other information from a certificate or key store.
• TlsInteraction - TlsInteraction provides a mechanism for the TLS connection and database code to interact with the user.
• TlsPassword - Holds a password used in TLS.
• UnixFDList - A UnixFDList contains a list of file descriptors.
• Vfs - Entry point for using GIO functionality.
• VolumeMonitor - VolumeMonitor is for listing the user interesting devices and volumes on the computer.
• ZlibCompressor - Zlib decompression
• ZlibDecompressor - Zlib decompression

Structs:

• ActionEntry - This struct defines a single action.
• DBusErrorEntry - Struct used in register_error_domain.
• DBusInterfaceVTable - Virtual table for handling properties and method calls for a D-Bus interface.
• DBusSubtreeVTable - Virtual table for handling subtrees registered with register_subtree.
• FileAttributeInfo - Information about a specific attribute.
• InputVector - Structure used for scatter/gather data input.
• OutputMessage -
• OutputVector - Structure used for scatter/gather data output.
• StaticResource -

Enums:

• AppInfoCreateFlags - Flags used when creating a AppInfo.
• ApplicationFlags - Flags used to define the behaviour of a Application.
• AskPasswordFlags - AskPasswordFlags are used to request specific information from the user, or to notify the user of their choices in an authentication situation.
• BusNameOwnerFlags - Flags used in g_bus_own_name.
• BusNameWatcherFlags - Flags used in g_bus_watch_name.
• BusType - An enumeration for well-known message buses.
• ConverterFlags - Flags used when calling a convert.
• ConverterResult - Results returned from convert.
• CredentialsType - Enumeration describing different kinds of native credential types.
• DBusCallFlags - Flags used in call and similar APIs.
• DBusCapabilityFlags - Capabilities negotiated with the remote peer.
• DBusConnectionFlags - Flags used when creating a new DBusConnection.
• DBusInterfaceSkeletonFlags - Flags describing the behavior of a DBusInterfaceSkeleton instance.
• DBusMessageByteOrder - Enumeration used to describe the byte order of a D-Bus message.
• DBusMessageFlags - Message flags used in DBusMessage.
• DBusMessageHeaderField - Header fields used in DBusMessage.
• DBusMessageType - Message types used in DBusMessage.
• DBusObjectManagerClientFlags - Flags used when constructing a DBusObjectManagerClient.
• DBusPropertyInfoFlags - Flags describing the access control of a D-Bus property.
• DBusProxyFlags - Flags used when constructing an instance of a DBusProxy derived class.
• DBusSendMessageFlags - Flags used when sending DBusMessages on a DBusConnection .
• DBusServerFlags - Flags used when creating a DBusServer.
• DBusSignalFlags - Flags used when subscribing to signals via signal_subscribe.
• DBusSubtreeFlags - Flags passed to register_subtree.
• DataStreamByteOrder - DataStreamByteOrder is used to ensure proper endianness of streaming data sources across various machine architectures.
• DataStreamNewlineType - DataStreamNewlineType is used when checking for or setting the line endings for a given file.
• DriveStartFlags - Flags used when starting a drive.
• DriveStartStopType - Enumeration describing how a drive can be started/stopped.
• EmblemOrigin - GEmblemOrigin is used to add information about the origin of the emblem to Emblem.
• FileAttributeInfoFlags - Flags specifying the behaviour of an attribute.
• FileAttributeStatus - Used by set_attributes_from_info when setting file attributes.
• FileAttributeType - The data types for file attributes.
• FileCopyFlags - Flags used when copying or moving files.
• FileCreateFlags - Flags used when an operation may create a file.
• FileMeasureFlags - Flags that can be used with measure_disk_usage.
• FileMonitorEvent - Specifies what type of event a monitor event is.
• FileMonitorFlags - Flags used to set what a FileMonitor will watch for.
• FileQueryInfoFlags - Flags used when querying a FileInfo.
• FileType - Indicates the file's on-disk type.
• FilesystemPreviewType - Indicates a hint from the file system whether files should be previewed in a file manager.
• IOModuleScopeFlags - Flags for use with IOModuleScope.
• IOStreamSpliceFlags - GIOStreamSpliceFlags determine how streams should be spliced.
• MountMountFlags - Flags used when mounting a mount.
• MountOperationResult - MountOperationResult is returned as a result when a request for information is send by the mounting operation.
• MountUnmountFlags - Flags used when an unmounting a mount.
• NetworkConnectivity -
• NotificationPriority - Priority levels for Notifications.
• OutputStreamSpliceFlags - GOutputStreamSpliceFlags determine how streams should be spliced.
• PasswordSave - PasswordSave is used to indicate the lifespan of a saved password.
• ResolverRecordType - The type of record that lookup_records or lookup_records_async should retrieve.
• ResourceFlags - GResourceFlags give information about a particular file inside a resource bundle.
• ResourceLookupFlags - GResourceLookupFlags determine how resource path lookups are handled.
• SettingsBindFlags - Flags used when creating a binding.
• SocketClientEvent - Describes an event occurring on a SocketClient.
• SocketFamily - The protocol family of a SocketAddress.
• SocketMsgFlags - Flags used in receive_message and send_message.
• SocketProtocol - A protocol identifier is specified when creating a Socket, which is a family/type specific identifier, where 0 means the default protocol for the particular family/type.
• SocketType - Flags used when creating a Socket.
• SubprocessFlags - Flags to define the behaviour of a Subprocess.
• TestDBusFlags - Flags to define future TestDBus behaviour.
• TlsAuthenticationMode - The client authentication mode for a TlsServerConnection.
• TlsCertificateFlags - A set of flags describing TLS certification validation.
• TlsCertificateRequestFlags - Flags for request_certificate, request_certificate_async, and invoke_request_certificate.
• TlsDatabaseLookupFlags - Flags for g_tls_database_lookup_certificate_handle, lookup_certificate_issuer, and lookup_certificates_issued_by.
• TlsDatabaseVerifyFlags - Flags for verify_chain.
• TlsInteractionResult - TlsInteractionResult is returned by various functions in TlsInteraction when finishing an interaction request.
• TlsPasswordFlags - Various flags for the password.
• TlsRehandshakeMode - When to allow rehandshaking.
• UnixSocketAddressType - The type of name used by a GUnixSocketAddresss.
• ZlibCompressorFormat - Used to select the type of data format to use for ZlibDecompressor and ZlibCompressor.

Error domains:

• DBusError - Error codes for the g_dbus_error error domain.
• IOError - Error codes returned by GIO functions.
• ResolverError - An error code used with g_resolver_error in a Error returned from a Resolver routine.
• ResourceError - An error code used with g_resource_error in a Error returned from a Resource routine.
• TlsError - An error code used with g_tls_error in a Error returned from a TLS-related routine.

Constants:

• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ACCESS_CAN_DELETE
  A key in the "access" namespace for checking deletion privileges.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ACCESS_CAN_EXECUTE
  A key in the "access" namespace for getting execution privileges.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ACCESS_CAN_READ
  A key in the "access" namespace for getting read privileges.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ACCESS_CAN_RENAME
  A key in the "access" namespace for checking renaming privileges.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ACCESS_CAN_TRASH
  A key in the "access" namespace for checking trashing privileges.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ACCESS_CAN_WRITE
  A key in the "access" namespace for getting write privileges.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DOS_IS_ARCHIVE
  A key in the "dos" namespace for checking if the file's archive flag is set.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DOS_IS_SYSTEM
  A key in the "dos" namespace for checking if the file's backup flag is set.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ETAG_VALUE
  A key in the "etag" namespace for getting the value of the file's entity tag.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_FREE
  A key in the "filesystem" namespace for getting the number of bytes of free space left on the file system.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_READONLY
  A key in the "filesystem" namespace for checking if the file system is read only.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_SIZE
  A key in the "filesystem" namespace for getting the total size (in bytes) of the file system, used in query_filesystem_info.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_TYPE
  A key in the "filesystem" namespace for getting the file system's type.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_FILESYSTEM_USE_PREVIEW
  A key in the "filesystem" namespace for hinting a file manager application whether it should preview (e.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_GVFS_BACKEND
  A key in the "gvfs" namespace that gets the name of the current GVFS backend in use.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ID_FILE
  A key in the "id" namespace for getting a file identifier.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ID_FILESYSTEM
  A key in the "id" namespace for getting the file system identifier.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_CAN_EJECT
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) can be ejected.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_CAN_MOUNT
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) is mountable.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_CAN_POLL
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) can be polled.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_CAN_START
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) can be started.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_CAN_START_DEGRADED
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) can be started degraded.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_CAN_STOP
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) can be stopped.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_CAN_UNMOUNT
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) is unmountable.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_HAL_UDI
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for getting the HAL UDI for the mountable file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_IS_MEDIA_CHECK_AUTOMATIC
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for checking if a file (of type G_FILE_TYPE_MOUNTABLE) is automatically polled for media.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_START_STOP_TYPE
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for getting the DriveStartStopType.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_UNIX_DEVICE
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for getting the unix device.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_MOUNTABLE_UNIX_DEVICE_FILE
  A key in the "mountable" namespace for getting the unix device file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OWNER_GROUP
  A key in the "owner" namespace for getting the file owner's group.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OWNER_USER
  A key in the "owner" namespace for getting the user name of the file's owner.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OWNER_USER_REAL
  A key in the "owner" namespace for getting the real name of the user that owns the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON
  A key in the "preview" namespace for getting a Icon that can be used to get preview of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SELINUX_CONTEXT
  A key in the "selinux" namespace for getting the file's SELinux context.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_ALLOCATED_SIZE
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the amount of disk space that is consumed by the file (in bytes).
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_CONTENT_TYPE
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the content type of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_COPY_NAME
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the copy name of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_DESCRIPTION
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the description of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_DISPLAY_NAME
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the display name of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_EDIT_NAME
  A key in the "standard" namespace for edit name of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_FAST_CONTENT_TYPE
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the fast content type.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_ICON
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the icon for the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_IS_BACKUP
  A key in the "standard" namespace for checking if a file is a backup file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_IS_HIDDEN
  A key in the "standard" namespace for checking if a file is hidden.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_IS_SYMLINK
  A key in the "standard" namespace for checking if the file is a symlink.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_IS_VIRTUAL
  A key in the "standard" namespace for checking if a file is virtual.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_NAME
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the name of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_SIZE
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the file's size (in bytes).
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_SORT_ORDER
  A key in the "standard" namespace for setting the sort order of a file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_SYMLINK_TARGET
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the symlink target, if the file is a symlink.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_TARGET_URI
  A key in the "standard" namespace for getting the target URI for the file, in the case of g_file_type_shortcut or g_file_type_mountable files.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_TYPE
  A key in the "standard" namespace for storing file types.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_THUMBNAILING_FAILED
  A key in the "thumbnail" namespace for checking if thumbnailing failed.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_THUMBNAIL_PATH
  A key in the "thumbnail" namespace for getting the path to the thumbnail image.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_ACCESS
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the time the file was last accessed.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_ACCESS_USEC
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the microseconds of the time the file was last accessed.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_CHANGED
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the time the file was last changed.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_CHANGED_USEC
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the microseconds of the time the file was last changed.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_CREATED
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the time the file was created.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_CREATED_USEC
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the microseconds of the time the file was created.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_MODIFIED
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the time the file was last modified.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TIME_MODIFIED_USEC
  A key in the "time" namespace for getting the miliseconds of the time the file was last modified.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TRASH_DELETION_DATE
  A key in the "trash" namespace.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TRASH_ITEM_COUNT
  A key in the "trash" namespace.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TRASH_ORIG_PATH
  A key in the "trash" namespace.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_BLOCKS
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the number of blocks allocated for the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_BLOCK_SIZE
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the block size for the file system.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_DEVICE
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the device id of the device the file is located on (see stat documentation).
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_GID
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the group ID for the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_INODE
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the inode of the file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_IS_MOUNTPOINT
  A key in the "unix" namespace for checking if the file represents a UNIX mount point.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_MODE
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the mode of the file (e.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_NLINK
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the number of hard links for a file.
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_RDEV
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the device ID for the file ( if it is a special file).
• public const unowned string FILE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIX_UID
  A key in the "unix" namespace for getting the user ID for the file.
• public const unowned string MENU_ATTRIBUTE_ACTION
  The menu item attribute which holds the action name of the item.
• public const unowned string MENU_ATTRIBUTE_LABEL
  The menu item attribute which holds the label of the item.
• public const unowned string MENU_ATTRIBUTE_TARGET
  The menu item attribute which holds the target with which the item's action will be activated.
• public const unowned string MENU_LINK_SECTION
  The name of the link that associates a menu item with a section.
• public const unowned string MENU_LINK_SUBMENU
  The name of the link that associates a menu item with a submenu.
• public const unowned string NATIVE_VOLUME_MONITOR_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
• public const unowned string NETWORK_MONITOR_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
  Extension point for network status monitoring functionality.
• public const unowned string PROXY_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
  Extension point for proxy functionality.
• public const unowned string PROXY_RESOLVER_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
  Extension point for proxy resolving functionality.
• public const unowned string TLS_BACKEND_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
  Extension point for TLS functionality via TlsBackend.
• public const unowned string TLS_DATABASE_PURPOSE_AUTHENTICATE_CLIENT
  The purpose used to verify the client certificate in a TLS connection.
• public const unowned string TLS_DATABASE_PURPOSE_AUTHENTICATE_SERVER
  The purpose used to verify the server certificate in a TLS connection.
• public const unowned string VFS_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
  Extension point for Vfs functionality.
• public const unowned string VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_HAL_UDI
  The string used to obtain a Hal UDI with get_identifier.
• public const unowned string VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_LABEL
  The string used to obtain a filesystem label with get_identifier.
• public const unowned string VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_NFS_MOUNT
  The string used to obtain a NFS mount with get_identifier.
• public const unowned string VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_UNIX_DEVICE
  The string used to obtain a Unix device path with get_identifier.
• public const unowned string VOLUME_IDENTIFIER_KIND_UUID
  The string used to obtain a UUID with get_identifier.
• public const unowned string VOLUME_MONITOR_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME
  Extension point for volume monitor functionality.

Delegates:

• public delegate void AsyncReadyCallback (Object? source_object, AsyncResult res)
  Type definition for a function that will be called back when an asynchronous operation within GIO has been completed.
• public delegate void BusAcquiredCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when a connection to a message bus has been obtained.
• public delegate void BusNameAcquiredCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when the name is acquired.
• public delegate void BusNameAppearedCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name, string name_owner)
  Invoked when the name being watched is known to have to have a owner.
• public delegate void BusNameLostCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when the name is lost or connection has been closed.
• public delegate void BusNameVanishedCallback (DBusConnection connection, string name)
  Invoked when the name being watched is known not to have to have a owner.
• public delegate bool CancellableSourceFunc (Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  This is the function type of the callback used for the SocketSource returned by source_new.
• public delegate Variant DBusInterfaceGetPropertyFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string property_name) throws Error
  The type of the get_property function in DBusInterfaceVTable.
• public delegate void DBusInterfaceMethodCallFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string method_name, Variant parameters, owned DBusMethodInvocation invocation)
  The type of the method_call function in DBusInterfaceVTable.
• public delegate bool DBusInterfaceSetPropertyFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string property_name, Variant value) throws Error
  The type of the set_property function in DBusInterfaceVTable.
• public delegate DBusMessage DBusMessageFilterFunction (DBusConnection connection, owned DBusMessage message, bool incoming)
  Signature for function used in add_filter.
• public delegate Type DBusProxyTypeFunc (DBusObjectManagerClient manager, string object_path, string? interface_name)
  Function signature for a function used to determine the Type to use for an interface proxy (if interface_name is not null) or object proxy (if interface_name is null).
• public delegate void DBusSignalCallback (DBusConnection connection, string sender_name, string object_path, string interface_name, string signal_name, Variant parameters)
  Signature for callback function used in signal_subscribe.
• public delegate unowned DBusInterfaceVTable? DBusSubtreeDispatchFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string interface_name, string node, void* out_user_data)
  The type of the dispatch function in DBusSubtreeVTable.
• public delegate string[] DBusSubtreeEnumerateFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path)
  The type of the enumerate function in DBusSubtreeVTable.
• public delegate DBusInterfaceInfo DBusSubtreeIntrospectFunc (DBusConnection connection, string sender, string object_path, string node)
  The type of the introspect function in DBusSubtreeVTable.
• public delegate void FileMeasureProgressCallback (bool reporting, uint64 current_size, uint64 num_dirs, uint64 num_files)
  This callback type is used by measure_disk_usage to make periodic progress reports when measuring the amount of disk spaced used by a directory.
• public delegate void FileProgressCallback (int64 current_num_bytes, int64 total_num_bytes)
  When doing file operations that may take a while, such as moving a file or copying a file, a progress callback is used to pass how far along that operation is to the application.
• public delegate bool FileReadMoreCallback (string file_contents, int64 file_size, void* callback_data)
  When loading the partial contents of a file with load_partial_contents_async, it may become necessary to determine if any more data from the file should be loaded.
• public delegate bool IOSchedulerJobFunc (IOSchedulerJob job, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  I/O Job function.
• public delegate bool PollableSourceFunc (Object pollable_stream)
  This is the function type of the callback used for the SocketSource returned by create_source and create_source.
• public delegate void* ReallocFunc (void* data, size_t size)
  Changes the size of the memory block pointed to by data to size bytes.
• public delegate bool SettingsBindGetMapping (Value value, Variant variant)
• public delegate bool SettingsBindGetMappingShared (Value value, Variant variant, void* user_data)
  The type for the function that is used to convert from Settings to an object property.
• public delegate Variant SettingsBindSetMapping (Value value, VariantType expected_type)
• public delegate Variant SettingsBindSetMappingShared (Value value, VariantType expected_type, void* user_data)
  The type for the function that is used to convert an object property value to a Variant for storing it in Settings.
• public delegate bool SettingsGetMapping (Variant value, out void* result)
  The type of the function that is used to convert from a value stored in a Settings to a value that is useful to the application.
• public delegate void SimpleActionActivateCallback (SimpleAction action, Variant? parameter)
• public delegate void SimpleActionActivateFunc (SimpleAction action, Variant? parameter, void* user_data)
• public delegate void SimpleActionChangeStateCallback (SimpleAction action, Variant value)
• public delegate void SimpleActionChangeStateFunc (SimpleAction action, Variant value, void* user_data)
• public delegate void SimpleAsyncThreadFunc (SimpleAsyncResult res, Object object, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  Simple thread function that runs an asynchronous operation and checks for cancellation.
• public delegate bool SocketSourceFunc (Socket socket, IOCondition condition)
  This is the function type of the callback used for the SocketSource returned by create_source.
• public delegate void TaskThreadFunc (Task task, Object source_object, void* task_data, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  The prototype for a task function to be run in a thread via g_task_run_in_thread or g_task_run_in_thread_sync.

Functions:

• public bool action_name_is_valid (string action_name)
• public bool action_parse_detailed_name (string detailed_name, out string action_name, out Variant target_value) throws Error
• public string action_print_detailed_name (string action_name, Variant? target_value)
• public bool g_content_type_can_be_executable (string type)
• public bool g_content_type_equals (string type1, string type2)
• public string? g_content_type_from_mime_type (string mime_type)
• public string g_content_type_get_description (string type)
• public Icon g_content_type_get_icon (string type)
• public string? g_content_type_get_mime_type (string type)
• public string g_content_type_guess (string filename, uchar[] data, out bool result_uncertain)
• public string g_content_type_guess_for_tree (File root)
• public bool g_content_type_is_a (string type, string supertype)
• public bool g_content_type_is_unknown (string type)
• public List<string> g_content_types_get_registered ()
• public unowned string g_dbus_address_get_for_bus_sync (BusType bus_type, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
• public async void g_dbus_address_get_stream (string address, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
• public weak IOStream g_dbus_address_get_stream_finish (AsyncResult res, string out_guid) throws Error
  Finishes an operation started with address_get_stream.
• public weak IOStream g_dbus_address_get_stream_sync (string address, string out_guid, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
• public unowned string g_dbus_error_encode_gerror (Error error)
• public unowned string g_dbus_error_get_remote_error (Error error)
• public bool g_dbus_error_is_remote_error (Error error)
• public weak Error g_dbus_error_new_for_dbus_error (string dbus_error_name, string dbus_error_message)
• public Quark g_dbus_error_quark ()
• public bool g_dbus_error_register_error (Quark error_domain, int error_code, string dbus_error_name)
• public void g_dbus_error_register_error_domain (string error_domain_quark_name, size_t quark_volatile, DBusErrorEntry entries, uint num_entries)
• public void g_dbus_error_set_dbus_error (string dbus_error_name, string dbus_error_message, string format) throws Error
• public void g_dbus_error_set_dbus_error_valist (string dbus_error_name, string dbus_error_message, string format, void* var_args) throws Error
• public bool g_dbus_error_strip_remote_error (Error error)
• public bool g_dbus_error_unregister_error (Quark error_domain, int error_code, string dbus_error_name)
• public unowned string g_dbus_generate_guid ()
• public weak Variant g_dbus_gvalue_to_gvariant (Value gvalue, VariantType type)
• public void g_dbus_gvariant_to_gvalue (Variant value, Value out_gvalue)
• public bool g_dbus_is_address (string str)
• public bool g_dbus_is_guid (string str)
• public bool g_dbus_is_interface_name (string str)
• public bool g_dbus_is_member_name (string str)
• public bool g_dbus_is_name (string str)
• public bool g_dbus_is_supported_address (string str) throws Error
• public bool g_dbus_is_unique_name (string str)
• public unowned IOError g_io_error_from_errno (int err_no)
• public Quark g_io_error_quark ()
• public List<weak TypeModule> g_io_modules_load_all_in_directory (string dirname)
  Loads all the modules in the specified directory.
• public unowned List g_io_modules_load_all_in_directory_with_scope (string dirname, IOModuleScope scope)
  Loads all the modules in the specified directory.
• public void g_io_modules_scan_all_in_directory (string dirname)
  Scans all the modules in the specified directory, ensuring that any extension point implemented by a module is registered.
• public void g_io_modules_scan_all_in_directory_with_scope (string dirname, IOModuleScope scope)
  Scans all the modules in the specified directory, ensuring that any extension point implemented by a module is registered.
• public void g_io_scheduler_cancel_all_jobs ()
  Cancels all cancellable I/O jobs.
• public void g_io_scheduler_push_job (owned IOSchedulerJobFunc job_func, int io_priority = DEFAULT, Cancellable? cancellable = null)
  Schedules the I/O job to run in another thread.
• public weak TimeoutSource g_pollable_source_new (Object pollable_stream)
  Utility method for PollableInputStream and PollableOutputStream implementations.
• public void g_simple_async_report_error_in_idle (Object object, AsyncReadyCallback callback, Quark domain, int code, string format)
  Reports an error in an asynchronous function in an idle function by directly setting the contents of the AsyncResult with the given error information.
• public void g_simple_async_report_gerror_in_idle (Object object, AsyncReadyCallback callback, Error error)
  Reports an error in an idle function.
• public void g_simple_async_report_take_gerror_in_idle (Object object, AsyncReadyCallback callback, Error error)
  Reports an error in an idle function.
• public Quark g_tls_error_quark ()
  Gets the TLS error quark.
• public void networking_init ()
  Initializes the platform networking libraries (eg, on Windows, this calls WSAStartup).
• public ssize_t pollable_stream_read (InputStream stream, uint8[] buffer, bool blocking, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
  Tries to read from stream, as with read (if blocking is true) or read_nonblocking (if blocking is false).
• public ssize_t pollable_stream_write (OutputStream stream, uint8[] buffer, bool blocking, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
  Tries to write to stream, as with write (if blocking is true) or write_nonblocking (if blocking is false).
• public bool pollable_stream_write_all (OutputStream stream, uint8[] buffer, bool blocking, out size_t bytes_written, Cancellable? cancellable = null) throws Error
  Tries to write buffer.length bytes to stream , as with write_all, but using pollable_stream_write rather than write.
• public string[] resources_enumerate_children (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags) throws Error
  Returns all the names of children at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources.
• public bool resources_get_info (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags, out size_t size, out uint32 flags) throws Error
  Looks for a file at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources and if found returns information about it.
• public Bytes resources_lookup_data (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags) throws Error
  Looks for a file at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources and returns a Bytes that lets you directly access the data in memory.
• public InputStream resources_open_stream (string path, ResourceLookupFlags lookup_flags) throws Error
  Looks for a file at the specified path in the set of globally registered resources and returns a InputStream that lets you read the data.
• public void resources_register (Resource resource)
  Registers the resource with the process-global set of resources.
• public void resources_unregister (Resource resource)
  Unregisters the resource from the process-global set of resources.

Fields:

• public EqualFunc file_equal
• public HashFunc file_hash