parent

Return the direct parent type of the passed in type.

If the passed in type has no parent, i.e. is a fundamental type, 0 is returned.

Example: Get the parent-type:

public interface Interface : Object {}
public abstract class AbstractGObject : Object, Interface {}
public abstract class MyGObject : AbstractGObject {}

public static int main (string[] args) {
	// Output:
	//	``AbstractGObject``
	//	``GObject``
	Type type = typeof (MyGObject);
	for (Type p = type.parent (); p != 0 ; p = p.parent ()) {
		print ("%s\n", p.name ());
	}
	return 0;
}

valac --pkg gobject-2.0 GLib.Type.parent.vala

Parameters:

type	the derived type

Returns:

the parent type