Function

FwupdPlugininput_stream_read_string

since: 2.0.0

Declaration [src]

gchar*
fu_input_stream_read_string (
  GInputStream* stream,
  gsize offset,
  gsize count,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Read a UTF-8 string from a stream in a safe way.

Available since: 2.0.0

Parameters

stream

Type: GInputStream

A GInputStream.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

offset

Type: gsize

Offset in bytes into stream to copy from.

count

Type: gsize

Maximum number of bytes to read.

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 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: gchar*

String.

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

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.