GDataInputStream: Clarify read_line() docs, mark as byte array

g_data_input_stream_read_line() and
g_data_input_stream_read_line_finish() don't do any encoding checks,
so we shouldn't call the returned value a "string" (which I'd like to
mean UTF-8).  Annotate them as byte arrays and add encoding warnings
to the docstrings.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652758
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Colin Walters 2011-06-16 13:14:44 -04:00
parent de0519581a
commit ff2f46a7f4

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@ -734,17 +734,20 @@ scan_for_newline (GDataInputStream *stream,
* @cancellable: (allow-none): optional #GCancellable object, %NULL to ignore.
* @error: #GError for error reporting.
*
* Reads a line from the data input stream.
* Reads a line from the data input stream. Note that no encoding
* checks or conversion is performed; the input is not guaranteed to
* be UTF-8, and may in fact have embedded NUL characters.
*
* If @cancellable is not %NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by
* triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation
* was cancelled, the error %G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.
*
* Returns: (transfer full): a string with the line that was read in
* (without the newlines). Set @length to a #gsize to get the
* length of the read line. On an error, it will return %NULL and
* @error will be set. If there's no content to read, it will
* still return %NULL, but @error won't be set.
* Returns: (transfer full) (array zero-terminated=1) (element-type guint8): a
* NUL terminated byte array with the line that was read in (without
* the newlines). Set @length to a #gsize to get the length of the
* read line. On an error, it will return %NULL and @error will be
* set. If there's no content to read, it will still return %NULL,
* but @error won't be set.
**/
char *
g_data_input_stream_read_line (GDataInputStream *stream,
@ -1182,9 +1185,12 @@ g_data_input_stream_read_until_async (GDataInputStream *stream,
* @error: #GError for error reporting.
*
* Finish an asynchronous call started by
* g_data_input_stream_read_line_async().
* g_data_input_stream_read_line_async(). Note the warning about
* string encoding in g_data_input_stream_read_line() applies here as
* well.
*
* Returns: (transfer full): a string with the line that was read in
* Returns: (transfer full) (array zero-terminated=1) (element-type guint8): a
* NUL-terminated byte array with the line that was read in
* (without the newlines). Set @length to a #gsize to get the
* length of the read line. On an error, it will return %NULL and
* @error will be set. If there's no content to read, it will