get_uri

Gets the URI for the this.

This call does no blocking I/O.

Example: Get the URI:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	// Output: ``file:///home/flo/examples/my/dir/my-test.txt``
	File file = File.new_for_path ("../my/dir/my-test.txt");
	string parse_name = file.get_uri ();
	print ("%s\n", parse_name);
	return 0;
}

valac --pkg gio-2.0 GLib.File.get_uri.vala

Parameters:

this	input File

Returns:

a string containing the File's URI. If the File was constructed with an invalid URI, an invalid URI is returned. The returned string should be freed with g_free when no longer needed.