class: StringChunk

[25:7] extends: object

GStringChunk provides efficient storage of groups of strings String chunks are used to store groups of strings. Memory is allocated in blocks, and as strings are added to the GStringChunk they are copied into the next free position in a block. When a block is full a new block is allocated. When storing a large number of strings, string chunks are more efficient than using [func@GLib.strdup] since fewer calls to malloc() are needed, and less memory is wasted in memory allocation overheads. By adding strings with [method@GLib.StringChunk.insert_const] it is also possible to remove duplicates. To create a new GStringChunk use [func@GLib.StringChunk.new]. To add strings to a GStringChunk use [method@GLib.StringChunk.insert]. To add strings to a GStringChunk, but without duplicating strings which are already in the GStringChunk, use [method@GLib.StringChunk.insert_const]. To free the entire GStringChunk use [method@GLib.StringChunk.free]. It is not possible to free individual strings.

Members

• handleObj
• lib
• retainedCallbacks
• signalHandlerNames
• signalSetterHandlers

Methods

• StringChunk (Handle = null)

  Creates a new StringChunk 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.