GIO Reference Manual

for GIO 2.44.1 The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/.

I. GIO Overview
  Introduction
  Writing GIO applications
  Compiling GIO applications
  Running GIO applications
  Extending GIO
II. API Reference
  File Operations
    GFile — File and Directory Handling
    GFileAttribute — Key-Value Paired File Attributes
    GFileInfo — File Information and Attributes
    GFileEnumerator — Enumerated Files Routines
    GIOError — Error helper functions
    GMountOperation — Object used for authentication and user interaction
  File System Monitoring
    GFileMonitor — File Monitor
  File-related Utilities
    GFilenameCompleter — Filename Completer
  Asynchronous I/O
    GCancellable — Thread-safe Operation Cancellation Stack
    GAsyncResult — Asynchronous Function Results
    GTask — Cancellable synchronous or asynchronous task and result
    GIOScheduler — I/O Scheduler
    GSimpleAsyncResult — Simple asynchronous results implementation
  Data conversion
    GConverter — Data conversion interface
    GCharsetConverter — Convert between charsets
    GZlibCompressor — Zlib compressor
    GZlibDecompressor — Zlib decompressor
  Streaming I/O
    GSeekable — Stream seeking interface
    GInputStream — Base class for implementing streaming input
    GOutputStream — Base class for implementing streaming output
    GIOStream — Base class for implementing read/write streams
    GSimpleIOStream — A wrapper around an input and an output stream.
    GFileInputStream — File input streaming operations
    GFileOutputStream — File output streaming operations
    GFileIOStream — File read and write streaming operations
    GFileDescriptorBased — Interface for file descriptor based IO
    GFilterInputStream — Filter Input Stream
    GFilterOutputStream — Filter Output Stream
    GMemoryInputStream — Streaming input operations on memory chunks
    GMemoryOutputStream — Streaming output operations on memory chunks
    GBufferedInputStream — Buffered Input Stream
    GBufferedOutputStream — Buffered Output Stream
    GDataInputStream — Data Input Stream
    GDataOutputStream — Data Output Stream
    GUnixInputStream — Streaming input operations for UNIX file descriptors
    GUnixOutputStream — Streaming output operations for UNIX file descriptors
    GWin32InputStream — Streaming input operations for Windows file handles
    GWin32OutputStream — Streaming output operations for Windows file handles
    GConverterInputstream — Converter Input Stream
    GConverterOutputstream — Converter Output Stream
    GPollableInputStream — Interface for pollable input streams
    GPollableOutputStream — Interface for pollable output streams
    gpollableutils — Utilities for pollable streams
  File types and applications
    GContentType — Platform-specific content typing
    GAppInfo — Application information and launch contexts
    GAppInfoMonitor — Monitor application information for changes
    GDesktopAppInfo — Application information from desktop files
  Volumes and Drives
    GVolumeMonitor — Volume Monitor
    GVolume — Volume management
    GMount — Mount management
    GDrive — Drive management
    Unix Mounts — UNIX mounts
  Icons
    GIcon — Interface for icons
    GFileIcon — Icons pointing to an image file
    GBytesIcon — An icon stored in memory as a GBytes
    GLoadableIcon — Loadable Icons
    GThemedIcon — Icon theming support
    GEmblemedIcon — Icon with emblems
    GEmblem — An object for emblems
  Failable Initialization
    GInitable — Failable object initialization interface
    GAsyncInitable — Asynchronously failable object initialization interface
  Subprocesses
    GSubprocess — Child processes
    GSubprocess Launcher — Environment options for launching a child process
  Low-level network support
    GSocket — Low-level socket object
    GInetAddress — An IPv4/IPv6 address
    GInetAddressMask — An IPv4/IPv6 address mask
    GSocketAddress — Abstract base class representing endpoints for socket communication
    GInetSocketAddress — Internet GSocketAddress
    GUnixSocketAddress — UNIX GSocketAddress
    GSocketControlMessage — A GSocket control message
    GUnixFDList — An object containing a set of UNIX file descriptors
    GUnixFDMessage — A GSocketControlMessage containing a GUnixFDList
    GCredentials — An object containing credentials
    GUnixCredentialsMessage — A GSocketControlMessage containing credentials
    GProxy — Interface for proxy handling
    GProxyAddress — An internet address with proxy information
    gnetworking.h — System networking includes
  High-level network functionallity
    GSocketClient — Helper for connecting to a network service
    GSocketConnection — A socket connection
    GUnixConnection — A UNIX domain GSocketConnection
    GTcpConnection — A TCP GSocketConnection
    GTcpWrapperConnection — Wrapper for non-GSocketConnection-based, GSocket-based GIOStreams
    GSocketListener — Helper for accepting network client connections
    GSocketService — Make it easy to implement a network service
    GThreadedSocketService — A threaded GSocketService
    GNetworkMonitor — Network status monitor
  TLS (SSL) support
    TLS Overview — TLS (aka SSL) support for GSocketConnection
    GTlsCertificate — TLS certificate
    GTlsConnection — TLS connection type
    GTlsClientConnection — TLS client-side connection
    GTlsServerConnection — TLS server-side connection
    GTlsBackend — TLS backend implementation
    GTlsDatabase — TLS database type
    GTlsFileDatabase — TLS file based database type
    GTlsInteraction — Interaction with the user during TLS operations.
    GTlsPassword — TLS Passwords for prompting
  DNS resolution
    GResolver — Asynchronous and cancellable DNS resolver
    GProxyResolver — Asynchronous and cancellable network proxy resolver
    GSimpleProxyResolver — Simple proxy resolver implementation
    GSocketConnectable — Interface for potential socket endpoints
    GNetworkAddress — A GSocketConnectable for resolving hostnames
    GNetworkService — A GSocketConnectable for resolving SRV records
    GSrvTarget — DNS SRV record target
  Low-level D-Bus Support
    D-Bus Utilities — Various utilities related to D-Bus
    D-Bus Addresses — D-Bus connection endpoints
    D-Bus Introspection Data — Node and interface description data structures
    GDBusError — Mapping D-Bus errors to and from GError
    GDBusMessage — D-Bus Message
    GDBusConnection — D-Bus Connections
    GDBusMethodInvocation — Object for handling remote calls
    GDBusServer — Helper for accepting connections
    GDBusAuthObserver — Object used for authenticating connections
  High-level D-Bus Support
    Owning Bus Names — Simple API for owning bus names
    Watching Bus Names — Simple API for watching bus names
    GDBusInterface — Base type for D-Bus interfaces
    GDBusInterfaceSkeleton — Service-side D-Bus interface
    GDBusProxy — Client-side D-Bus interface proxy
    GDBusObject — Base type for D-Bus objects
    GDBusObjectSkeleton — Service-side D-Bus object
    GDBusObjectProxy — Client-side D-Bus object
    GDBusObjectManager — Base type for D-Bus object managers
    GDBusObjectManagerServer — Service-side object manager
    GDBusObjectManagerClient — Client-side object manager
  Settings
    GSettings — High-level API for application settings
    GSettingsBackend — Interface for settings backend implementations
    GSettingsSchema, GSettingsSchemaSource — Introspecting and controlling the loading of GSettings schemas
  Resources
    GResource — Resource framework
  Permissions
    GPermission — An object representing the permission to perform a certain action
    GSimplePermission — A GPermission that doesn't change value
  Data Models
    GListModel — An interface describing a dynamic list of objects
    GListStore A simple implementation of GListModel
  Application support
    GApplication — Core application class
    GApplicationCommandLine — A command-line invocation of an application
    GActionGroup — A group of actions
    GActionMap — Interface for action containers
    GSimpleActionGroup — A simple GActionGroup implementation
    GAction — An action interface
    GSimpleAction — A simple GAction implementation
    GPropertyAction — A GAction reflecting a GObject property
    GRemoteActionGroup — A GActionGroup that interacts with other processes
    GActionGroup exporter — Export GActionGroups on D-Bus
    GDBusActionGroup — A D-Bus GActionGroup implementation
    GMenuModel — An abstract class representing the contents of a menu
    GMenu — A simple implementation of GMenuModel
    GMenuModel exporter — Export GMenuModels on D-Bus
    GDBusMenuModel — A D-Bus GMenuModel implementation
    GNotification — User Notifications (pop up messages)
  Extending GIO
    GVfs — Virtual File System
    GIOModule — Loadable GIO Modules
    Extension Points — Extension Points
  GIO Tools
    gio-querymodules — GIO module cache creation
    gsettings — GSettings configuration tool
    glib-compile-schemas — GSettings schema compiler
    glib-compile-resources — GLib resource compiler
    gdbus — Tool for working with D-Bus objects
    gdbus-codegen — D-Bus code and documentation generator
    gresource — GResource tool
    gapplication — D-Bus application launcher
  GIO Testing
    GTestDBus — D-Bus testing helper
III. Migrating to GIO
  Migrating from GnomeVFS to GIO
    Trash handling
    Operations on multiple files
    Mime monitoring
  Migrating from GConf to GSettings
    Before you start
    Conceptual differences
    GConfClient (and GConfBridge) API conversion
    Change notification
    Change sets
    Schema conversion
    Data conversion
  Migrating to GDBus
    Conceptual differences
    API comparison
    Owning bus names
    Creating proxies for well-known names
    Generating code and docs
      Using gdbus-codegen
      org.gtk.GDBus.Example.ObjectManager.Animal — Example docs generated by gdbus-codegen
      org.gtk.GDBus.Example.ObjectManager.Cat — More example docs generated by gdbus-codegen
      ExampleAnimal — Generated C code for the org.gtk.GDBus.Example.ObjectManager.Animal D-Bus interface
      ExampleCat — Generated C code for the org.gtk.GDBus.Example.ObjectManager.Cat D-Bus interface
      ExampleObject — Specialized GDBusObject types
      ExampleObjectManagerClient — Generated GDBusObjectManagerClient type
Object Hierarchy
Index
Index of deprecated symbols
Index of new symbols in 2.18
Index of new symbols in 2.20
Index of new symbols in 2.22
Index of new symbols in 2.24
Index of new symbols in 2.26
Index of new symbols in 2.28
Index of new symbols in 2.30
Index of new symbols in 2.32
Index of new symbols in 2.34
Index of new symbols in 2.36
Index of new symbols in 2.38
Index of new symbols in 2.40
Index of new symbols in 2.42
Index of new symbols in 2.44
Annotation Glossary

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