Virtual Method

AppStreamComposeUnitread_data

Declaration [src]

GBytes*
read_data (
  AscUnit* unit,
  const gchar* filename,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Read the contents of the selected file into memory and return them.

Parameters

filename

Type: const gchar*

The file to read data for.

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 a NULL GError*.

The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the virtual 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: GBytes

No description available.

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.