Method

GPluginLoaderquery_plugin

Declaration [src]

GPluginPlugin*
gplugin_loader_query_plugin (
  GPluginLoader* loader,
  const gchar* filename,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

This function is called by the plugin manager to ask loader to query filename and determine if it’s a usable plugin.

Parameters

filename

Type: const gchar*

The filename to query.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

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 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: GPluginPlugin

A plugin instance or NULL on failure.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.