Method

IdeSessionItemget_metadata_value

Declaration 

GVariant*
ide_session_item_get_metadata_value (
  IdeSessionItem* self,
  const char* key,
  const GVariantType* expected_type
)

Description

Retrieves the metadata value for key.

If expected_type is non-NULL, any non-NULL value returned from this function will match expected_type.

Parameters

key

Type: const char*

The metadata key.

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

Type: GVariantType

A GVariantType or NULL.

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

Return value

Type: GVariant

A non-floating GVariant which should be released with g_variant_unref(); otherwise NULL.

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