Method

AppStreamMetadataparse_data

Declaration [src]

gboolean
as_metadata_parse_data (
  AsMetadata* metad,
  const gchar* data,
  gssize data_len,
  AsFormatKind format,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Parses any AppStream metadata into one or more AsComponent instances.

Parameters

data const gchar*
 

Metadata describing one or more software components as string.

 The data is owned by the caller of the function.
 The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
data_len gssize
 

Length of data, or -1 if length is unknown and data is NULL-terminated.

format AsFormatKind
 

The format of the data (XML or YAML).

error GError **
  The return location for a GError*, or NULL.

Return value

Returns: gboolean
 

TRUE on success.