GIO Reference Manual

for GIO 2.24.2 The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at http://library.gnome.org/devel/gio/unstable/.

I. GIO Overview

Introduction
Compiling GIO applications
Running GIO applications
Extending GIO

II. API Reference

File Operations

GFile — File and Directory Handling
GFileAttribute — Key-Value Paired File Attributes
GFileInfo — File Information and Attributes
GFileEnumerator — Enumerated Files Routines
GIOError — Error helper functions
GMountOperation — Object used for authentication and user interaction

File System Monitoring

GFileMonitor — File Monitor

Asynchronous I/O

GCancellable — Thread-safe Operation Cancellation Stack
GAsyncResult — Asynchronous Function Results
GIOScheduler — I/O Scheduler
GSimpleAsyncResult — Simple asynchronous results implementation

Data conversion

GConverter — Data conversion interface
GCharsetConverter — Convert between charsets
GZlibCompressor — Zlib compressor
GZlibDecompressor — Zlib decompressor

Streaming I/O

GSeekable — Stream seeking interface
GInputStream — Base class for implementing streaming input
GOutputStream — Base class for implementing streaming output
GIOStream — Base class for implementing read/write streams
GFileInputStream — File input streaming operations
GFileOutputStream — File output streaming operations
GFileIOStream — File read and write streaming operations
GFileDescriptorBased — Interface for file descriptor based IO
GFilterInputStream — Filter Input Stream
GFilterOutputStream — Filter Output Stream
GMemoryInputStream — Streaming input operations on memory chunks
GMemoryOutputStream — Streaming output operations on memory chunks
GBufferedInputStream — Buffered Input Stream
GBufferedOutputStream — Buffered Output Stream
GDataInputStream — Data Input Stream
GDataOutputStream — Data Output Stream
GUnixInputStream — Streaming input operations for UNIX file descriptors
GUnixOutputStream — Streaming output operations for Unix file descriptors
GConverterInputstream — Converter Input Stream
GConverterOutputstream — Converter Output Stream

File types and applications

GContentType — Platform-specific content typing
GAppInfo — Application information and launch contexts
Desktop file based GAppInfo — Application information from desktop files

Volumes and Drives

GVolumeMonitor — Volume Monitor
GVolume — Volume management
GMount — Mount management
GDrive — Drive management
Unix Mounts — Unix Mounts

GIcon — Interface for icons
GFileIcon — Icons pointing to an image file
GLoadableIcon — Loadable Icons
GThemedIcon — Icon theming support
GEmblemedIcon — Icon with emblems
GEmblem — An object for emblems

Failable Initialization

GInitable — Failable object initialization interface
GAsyncInitable — Asynchronously failable object initialization interface

Lowlevel platform-independent network support

GSocket — Low-level socket object
GInetAddress — An IPv4/IPv6 address
GSocketAddress — Abstract base class representing endpoints for socket communication
GInetSocketAddress — Internet GSocketAddress
GUnixSocketAddress — UNIX GSocketAddress
GSocketControlMessage — A GSocket control message
GUnixFDList — An object containing a set of file descriptors
GUnixFDMessage — A GSocketControlMessage containing a GUnixFDList

DNS resolution

GResolver — Asynchronous and cancellable DNS resolver
GSocketConnectable — Interface for potential socket endpoints
GNetworkAddress — A GSocketConnectable for resolving hostnames
GNetworkService — A GSocketConnectable for resolving SRV records
GSrvTarget — DNS SRV record target

Highlevel network functionallity

GSocketClient — Helper for connecting to a network service
GSocketConnection — A socket connection
GSocketListener — Helper for accepting network client connections
GSocketService — Make it easy to implement a network service
GThreadedSocketService — A threaded GSocketService

GFilenameCompleter — Filename Completer

Extending GIO

GVfs — Virtual File System
GIOModule — Loadable GIO Modules
Extension Points — Extension Points

III. Migrating to GIO

Migrating from POSIX to GIO

Migrating from GnomeVFS to GIO

Trash handling
Operations on multiple files
Mime monitoring

Object Hierarchy

Index of deprecated symbols

Index of new symbols in 2.18

Index of new symbols in 2.20

Index of new symbols in 2.22

Index of new symbols in 2.24