new_for_uri

Constructs a File for a given URI.

This operation never fails, but the returned object might not support any I/O operation if uri is malformed or if the uri type is not supported.

Example: Construct a File for a given URI:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	if (args.length != 2) {
		// example: ./binary file://localhost/home/myname
		print ("%s URIy\n", args[0]);
		return 0;
	}

	File file = File.new_for_uri (args[1]);
	for (File pos = file; pos != null; pos = pos.get_parent ()) {
		print ("%s\n", pos.get_path ());
	}

	return 0;
}

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

Parameters:

uri	a UTF-8 string containing a URI

Returns:

a new File for the given uri. Free the returned object with unref.