gFileEnumerateChildren: gFileEnumerateChildren

Description

Gets the requested information about the files in a directory. The result is a GFileEnumerator object that will give out GFileInfo objects for all the files in the directory.

Usage

gFileEnumerateChildren(object, attributes, flags = "G_FILE_QUERY_INFO_NONE",  cancellable = NULL, .errwarn = TRUE)

Arguments

object

input GFile.

attributes

an attribute query string.

flags

a set of GFileQueryInfoFlags.

cancellable

optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.

.errwarn

Whether to issue a warning on error or fail silently

Value

retval: [GFileEnumerator] A GFileEnumerator if successful, NULL on error.
error: GError for error reporting.

Details

The attribute value is a string that specifies the file attributes that should be gathered. It is not an error if it's not possible to read a particular requested attribute from a file - it just won't be set. attribute should be a comma-separated list of attribute or attribute wildcards. The wildcard "*" means all attributes, and a wildcard like "standard::*" means all attributes in the standard namespace. An example attribute query be "standard::*,owner::user". The standard attributes are available as defines, like G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_NAME. 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 the file does not exist, the G_IO_ERROR_NOT_FOUND error will be returned. If the file is not a directory, the G_FILE_ERROR_NOTDIR error will be returned. Other errors are possible too.