Method

AppStreamMetadatasave_metainfo

Declaration [src]

gboolean
as_metadata_save_metainfo (
  AsMetadata* metad,
  const gchar* fname,
  AsFormatKind format,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Serialize AsComponent instance to XML and save it to file. An existing file at the same location will be overridden.

Parameters

fname

Type: const gchar*

The filename for the new metadata file.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

format

Type: AsFormatKind

The format to save this file in. Only XML is supported at time.

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 if the file was written without error.