class: PatternSpec

[24:7] extends: object

A GPatternSpec struct is the ‘compiled’ form of a glob-style pattern. The [func@GLib.pattern_match_simple] and [method@GLib.PatternSpec.match] functions match a string against a pattern containing * and ? wildcards with similar semantics as the standard glob() function: * matches an arbitrary, possibly empty, string, ? matches an arbitrary character. Note that in contrast to glob(), the / character can be matched by the wildcards, there are no […] character ranges and * and ? can not be escaped to include them literally in a pattern. When multiple strings must be matched against the same pattern, it is better to compile the pattern to a [struct@GLib.PatternSpec] using [ctor@GLib.PatternSpec.new] and use [method@GLib.PatternSpec.match_string] instead of [func@GLib.pattern_match_simple]. This avoids the overhead of repeated pattern compilation.

Members

• handleObj
• lib
• retainedCallbacks
• signalHandlerNames
• signalSetterHandlers

Methods

• PatternSpec (Handle = null)

  Creates a new PatternSpec by wrapping a native handle or another wrapper.

  • @p Handle is the native handle or another wrapper whose handle to adopt.

• toNativeHandle (Source)

  Normalizes a constructor argument into a raw pointer carrier. Accepts a raw NativeHandle, a raw NativeBuffer returned from fn.call(...), another generated wrapper exposing handle(), or null. Returns null when the argument carries no pointer.

  • @p Source is the raw handle, raw buffer, wrapper, or null.
  • @r A raw pointer carrier or null when no pointer is present.

• getLib ()

  Returns the opened native library for this generated wrapper.

  • @r The opened native library.

• handle ()

  Returns the wrapped NativeHandle.

  • @r The wrapped NativeHandle.

• isNull ()

  Returns true when the wrapped handle is null.

  • @r A bool.

• describe ()

  Returns a small string for debugging generated wrappers.

  • @r A string.