glib/gio/gicon.h
Ryan Lortie c16f914b40 GIcon: add g_icon_[de]serialize()
Add support for serialising a GIcon to a GVariant and deserialising the
result back to a GIcon.

This solves a number of problems suffered by the existing to_string()
API, primarily these:

 - not forcing the icon to be a utf8 string means that we can
   efficiently encode a PNG (ie: just give the array of bytes)

 - there is no need to ensure that proper types are loaded before using
   the deserialisation interface.  'Foreign' icon types will probably
   emit a serialised format the deserialises to a GBytesIcon.

We additionally clearly document what is required for being a consumer
or implementation of #GIcon.

Further patches will be required to GdkPixbuf and GVfsIcon to bring
their implementations in line with the new rules (essentially: introduce
implementations of the new serialize() API).

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688820
2013-04-21 16:31:14 -04:00

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/* GIO - GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library
*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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*
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*
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* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
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*
* Author: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
*/
#ifndef __G_ICON_H__
#define __G_ICON_H__
#if !defined (__GIO_GIO_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GIO_COMPILATION)
#error "Only <gio/gio.h> can be included directly."
#endif
#include <gio/giotypes.h>
G_BEGIN_DECLS
#define G_TYPE_ICON (g_icon_get_type ())
#define G_ICON(obj) (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST ((obj), G_TYPE_ICON, GIcon))
#define G_IS_ICON(obj) (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_TYPE ((obj), G_TYPE_ICON))
#define G_ICON_GET_IFACE(obj) (G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_INTERFACE ((obj), G_TYPE_ICON, GIconIface))
/**
* GIcon:
*
* An abstract type that specifies an icon.
**/
typedef struct _GIconIface GIconIface;
/**
* GIconIface:
* @g_iface: The parent interface.
* @hash: A hash for a given #GIcon.
* @equal: Checks if two #GIcon<!-- -->s are equal.
* @to_tokens: Serializes a #GIcon into tokens. The tokens must not
* contain any whitespace. Don't implement if the #GIcon can't be
* serialized (Since 2.20).
* @from_tokens: Constructs a #GIcon from tokens. Set the #GError if
* the tokens are malformed. Don't implement if the #GIcon can't be
* serialized (Since 2.20).
*
* GIconIface is used to implement GIcon types for various
* different systems. See #GThemedIcon and #GLoadableIcon for
* examples of how to implement this interface.
*/
struct _GIconIface
{
GTypeInterface g_iface;
/* Virtual Table */
guint (* hash) (GIcon *icon);
gboolean (* equal) (GIcon *icon1,
GIcon *icon2);
gboolean (* to_tokens) (GIcon *icon,
GPtrArray *tokens,
gint *out_version);
GIcon * (* from_tokens) (gchar **tokens,
gint num_tokens,
gint version,
GError **error);
GVariant * (* serialize) (GIcon *icon);
};
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GType g_icon_get_type (void) G_GNUC_CONST;
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
guint g_icon_hash (gconstpointer icon);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gboolean g_icon_equal (GIcon *icon1,
GIcon *icon2);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
gchar *g_icon_to_string (GIcon *icon);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL
GIcon *g_icon_new_for_string (const gchar *str,
GError **error);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_38
GVariant * g_icon_serialize (GIcon *icon);
GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_2_38
GIcon * g_icon_deserialize (GVariant *value);
G_END_DECLS
#endif /* __G_ICON_H__ */