gFileReplaceContentsAsync: gFileReplaceContentsAsync

In RGtk2: R Bindings for Gtk 2.8.0 and Above

Description

Starts an asynchronous replacement of file with the given contents of length bytes. etag will replace the document's current entity tag.

Usage

gFileReplaceContentsAsync(object, contents, length, etag, make.backup, 
    flags = "G_FILE_CREATE_NONE", cancellable = NULL, callback, 
    user.data = NULL)

Arguments

object	input GFile.
contents	string of contents to replace the file with.
length	the length of contents in bytes.
etag	a new entity tag for the file, or NULL
make.backup	TRUE if a backup should be created.
flags	a set of GFileCreateFlags.
cancellable	optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.
callback	a GAsyncReadyCallback to call when the request is satisfied
user.data	the data to pass to callback function

Details

When this operation has completed, callback will be called with user.user data, and the operation can be finalized with gFileReplaceContentsFinish.

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

If make.backup is TRUE, this function will attempt to make a backup of file.

Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

RGtk2 documentation built on Oct. 14, 2021, 5:08 p.m.