Method

AppStreamMetadataparse_bytes

since: 0.14.0

Declaration [src]

gboolean
as_metadata_parse_bytes (
  AsMetadata* metad,
  GBytes* bytes,
  AsFormatKind format,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Parses any AppStream metadata into one or more AsComponent instances.

Available since: 0.14.0

Parameters

bytes

Type: GBytes

Metadata describing one or more software components.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

format

Type: AsFormatKind

The format of the data (XML or YAML).

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE on success.