Function
GLibVariantparse
Declaration [src]
GVariant*
g_variant_parse (
const GVariantType* type,
const gchar* text,
const gchar* limit,
const gchar** endptr,
GError** error
)
Description [src]
Parses a GVariant from a text representation.
A single GVariant is parsed from the content of text.
The format is described here.
The memory at limit will never be accessed and the parser behaves as
if the character at limit is the nul terminator. This has the
effect of bounding text.
If endptr is non-NULL then text is permitted to contain data
following the value that this function parses and endptr will be
updated to point to the first character past the end of the text
parsed by this function. If endptr is NULL and there is extra data
then an error is returned.
If type is non-NULL then the value will be parsed to have that
type. This may result in additional parse errors (in the case that
the parsed value doesn’t fit the type) but may also result in fewer
errors (in the case that the type would have been ambiguous, such as
with empty arrays).
In the event that the parsing is successful, the resulting GVariant
is returned. It is never floating, and must be freed with
g_variant_unref().
In case of any error, NULL will be returned. If error is non-NULL
then it will be set to reflect the error that occurred.
Officially, the language understood by the parser is “any string
produced by g_variant_print()”. This explicitly includes
g_variant_print()’s annotated types like int64 -1000.
There may be implementation specific restrictions on deeply nested values,
which would result in a G_VARIANT_PARSE_ERROR_RECURSION error. GVariant is
guaranteed to handle nesting up to at least 64 levels.
Parameters
type-
Type:
GVariantTypeA
GVariantType, orNULL.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the function. text-
Type:
const gchar*A string containing a GVariant in text form.
The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. limit-
Type:
const gchar*A pointer to the end of
text, orNULL.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. endptr-
Type:
const gchar**A location to store the end pointer, or
NULL.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. error-
Type:
GError **The return location for a recoverable error.
The argument can be NULL.If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to aNULLGError*.The argument will be left initialized to NULLby the function if there are no errors.In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.
Return value
Type: GVariant
A non-floating reference to a GVariant, or NULL.
| The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it. |