Gda.Blob – libgda-5.0 Reference Manual

Blob

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

[ CCode ( copy_function = "g_boxed_copy" , free_function = "g_boxed_free" , type_id = "gda_blob_get_type ()" ) ]
[ Compact ]
public class Blob

Represents some binary data, accessed through a BlobOp object.

op is generally set up by database providers when giving access to an existing BLOB in a database, but can be modified if needed using set_op.

Namespace: Gda

Package: libgda-5.0

Content:

Static methods:

public static void* copy (void* boxed)
Creates a new Blob structure from an existing one.
public static void free (void* boxed)
Deallocates all memory associated to the given Blob.

Methods:

public void set_op (BlobOp? op)
correctly assigns op to this
public string to_string (uint maxlen)
Converts all the non printable characters of blob->data into the \xxx representation where xxx is the octal representation of the byte, and the '\' (backslash) character is converted to "\\".

Fields:

public unowned Binary data
public unowned BlobOp op

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