MateConfEngine

MateConfEngine — a MateConf "database"

Synopsis

                    MateConfEngine;
MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_default            (void);
MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_for_address        (const gchar *address,
                                                         GError **err);
MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_for_addresses      (GSList *addresses,
                                                         GError **err);
void                mateconf_engine_unref                  (MateConfEngine *conf);
void                mateconf_engine_ref                    (MateConfEngine *conf);
MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_local              (const char *address,
                                                         GError **err);
MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_local_for_addresses
                                                        (GSList *addresses,
                                                         GError **err);
void                mateconf_engine_set_user_data          (MateConfEngine *engine,
                                                         gpointer data,
                                                         GDestroyNotify dnotify);
gpointer            mateconf_engine_get_user_data          (MateConfEngine *engine);

Description

A MateConfEngine represents a connection to the MateConf database. The default MateConfEngine, returned from mateconf_engine_get_default(), represents the user's normal configuration source search path. Configuration-related utilities, such as a configuration editor tool, might wish to access a particular configuration source directly; they can obtain a non-default MateConfEngine with mateconf_engine_get_for_address().

Once you have a MateConfEngine, you can query and manipulate configuration values.

Details

MateConfEngine

typedef struct _MateConfEngine MateConfEngine;

An opaque data type representing one or more configuration sources.


mateconf_engine_get_default ()

MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_default            (void);

Returns the default MateConfEngine. All clients should use this, unless they are special configuration-related tools. The caller of this function assumes one reference count, and must call mateconf_engine_unref() at some point. It's fairly important to unref the MateConfEngine, to cleanly close the connection to mateconfd. So if possible close the connection before exiting your application.

Returns :

the default MateConfEngine. [transfer full]

mateconf_engine_get_for_address ()

MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_for_address        (const gchar *address,
                                                         GError **err);

Obtains a special MateConfEngine; mostly useful for specialized MateConf-related tools. Normal clients shouldn't need to use it. As with mateconf_engine_get_default(), the returned MateConfEngine should be unreferenced by the caller of this function.

address :

a configuration source address.

err :

the return location for an allocated GError, or NULL to ignore errors.

Returns :

a MateConfEngine.

mateconf_engine_get_for_addresses ()

MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_for_addresses      (GSList *addresses,
                                                         GError **err);

Similar to mateconf_engine_get_for_address() , but takes a list of addresses instead of a single address.

addresses :

a list of configuration addresses.

err :

the return location for an allocated GError, or NULL to ignore errors.

Returns :

a MateConfEngine.

Since 2.4


mateconf_engine_unref ()

void                mateconf_engine_unref                  (MateConfEngine *conf);

Decreases the reference count of a MateConfEngine by one; if the reference count reaches 0, destroys the MateConfEngine.

conf :

a MateConfEngine.

mateconf_engine_ref ()

void                mateconf_engine_ref                    (MateConfEngine *conf);

Increases the reference count of a MateConfEngine by one.

conf :

a MateConfEngine.

mateconf_engine_get_local ()

MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_local              (const char *address,
                                                         GError **err);

Obtain a local (non-process-transparent) MateConfEngine. Local engines do not support notification, and can only access config databases directly (they do not use the multiple sources in a path system supported by nonlocal engines).

address :

address of local database.

err :

return location of an allocated GError.

Returns :

a MateConfEngine.

mateconf_engine_get_local_for_addresses ()

MateConfEngine *       mateconf_engine_get_local_for_addresses
                                                        (GSList *addresses,
                                                         GError **err);

Obtains a local MateConfEngine similar to mateconf_engine_get_local(). Instead of taking the address of the local database, this function takes the addresses of the sources and gets the MateConfSources using mateconf_sources_new_from_addresses().

addresses :

a list of addresses of MateConfSources.

err :

the return location for an allocated GError, or NULL to ignore errors.

Returns :

a MateConfEngine.

Since 2.8


mateconf_engine_set_user_data ()

void                mateconf_engine_set_user_data          (MateConfEngine *engine,
                                                         gpointer data,
                                                         GDestroyNotify dnotify);

Sets the user_data and the destroy notification function fields of a MateConfEngine.

engine :

a MateConfEngine.

data :

a gpointer.

dnotify :

a pointer to the function to be called during destroy.

mateconf_engine_get_user_data ()

gpointer            mateconf_engine_get_user_data          (MateConfEngine *engine);

Returns the user_data field of a MateConfEngine.

engine :

a MateConfEngine.

Returns :

a pointer to the user_data.