Gio.File.set_attribute_byte_string (original) (raw)

Method

Gio Fileset_attribute_byte_string

Declaration [src]


gboolean
g_file_set_attribute_byte_string (
  GFile* file,
  const char* attribute,
  const char* value,
  GFileQueryInfoFlags flags,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Sets attribute of type G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_BYTE_STRING to value. If attribute is of a different type, this operation will fail, returning FALSE.

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

Parameters

attribute

Type: const char*

A string containing the attribute’s name.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

value

Type: const char*

A string containing the attribute’s new value.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

flags

Type: GFileQueryInfoFlags

A GFileQueryInfoFlags.

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object,NULL to ignore.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.

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 method 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: gboolean

TRUE if the attribute was successfully set to value in the file, FALSE otherwise.

Gio.File.set_attribute_byte_string (original) (raw)

Method