Method

FwupdClientget_device_by_id

since: 0.9.3

Declaration [src] 

FwupdDevice*
fwupd_client_get_device_by_id (
  FwupdClient* self,
  const gchar* device_id,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Gets a device by its device ID.

Available since: 0.9.3

Parameters

device_id

Type: const gchar*

The device ID, e.g. usb:00:01:03:03

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

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
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 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: FwupdDevice

A device or NULL.

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