GPollableOutputStream

GPollableOutputStream — Interface for pollable output streams

Object Hierarchy

    GInterface
    ╰── GPollableOutputStream

Prerequisites

GPollableOutputStream requires GOutputStream.

Known Implementations

GPollableOutputStream is implemented by GConverterOutputStream, GMemoryOutputStream and GUnixOutputStream.

Includes

#include <gio/gio.h>

Description

GPollableOutputStream is implemented by GOutputStreams that can be polled for readiness to write. This can be used when interfacing with a non-GIO API that expects UNIX-file-descriptor-style asynchronous I/O rather than GIO-style.

Functions

g_pollable_output_stream_can_poll ()

gboolean
g_pollable_output_stream_can_poll (GPollableOutputStream *stream);

Checks if stream is actually pollable. Some classes may implement GPollableOutputStream but have only certain instances of that class be pollable. If this method returns FALSE, then the behavior of other GPollableOutputStream methods is undefined.

For any given stream, the value returned by this method is constant; a stream cannot switch from pollable to non-pollable or vice versa.

Parameters

stream

a GPollableOutputStream.

 

Returns

TRUE if stream is pollable, FALSE if not.

Since: 2.28


g_pollable_output_stream_is_writable ()

gboolean
g_pollable_output_stream_is_writable (GPollableOutputStream *stream);

Checks if stream can be written.

Note that some stream types may not be able to implement this 100% reliably, and it is possible that a call to g_output_stream_write() after this returns TRUE would still block. To guarantee non-blocking behavior, you should always use g_pollable_output_stream_write_nonblocking(), which will return a G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK error rather than blocking.

Parameters

stream

a GPollableOutputStream.

 

Returns

TRUE if stream is writable, FALSE if not. If an error has occurred on stream , this will result in g_pollable_output_stream_is_writable() returning TRUE, and the next attempt to write will return the error.

Since: 2.28


g_pollable_output_stream_create_source ()

GSource *
g_pollable_output_stream_create_source
                               (GPollableOutputStream *stream,
                                GCancellable *cancellable);

Creates a GSource that triggers when stream can be written, or cancellable is triggered or an error occurs. The callback on the source is of the GPollableSourceFunc type.

As with g_pollable_output_stream_is_writable(), it is possible that the stream may not actually be writable even after the source triggers, so you should use g_pollable_output_stream_write_nonblocking() rather than g_output_stream_write() from the callback.

Parameters

stream

a GPollableOutputStream.

 

cancellable

a GCancellable, or NULL.

[nullable]

Returns

a new GSource.

[transfer full]

Since: 2.28


g_pollable_output_stream_write_nonblocking ()

gssize
g_pollable_output_stream_write_nonblocking
                               (GPollableOutputStream *stream,
                                const void *buffer,
                                gsize count,
                                GCancellable *cancellable,
                                GError **error);

Attempts to write up to count bytes from buffer to stream , as with g_output_stream_write(). If stream is not currently writable, this will immediately return G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK, and you can use g_pollable_output_stream_create_source() to create a GSource that will be triggered when stream is writable.

Note that since this method never blocks, you cannot actually use cancellable to cancel it. However, it will return an error if cancellable has already been cancelled when you call, which may happen if you call this method after a source triggers due to having been cancelled.

Also note that if G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK is returned some underlying transports like D/TLS require that you re-send the same buffer and count in the next write call.

Virtual: write_nonblocking

Parameters

stream

a GPollableOutputStream

 

buffer

a buffer to write data from.

[array length=count][element-type guint8]

count

the number of bytes you want to write

 

cancellable

a GCancellable, or NULL.

[nullable]

error

GError for error reporting, or NULL to ignore.

 

Returns

the number of bytes written, or -1 on error (including G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK).


g_pollable_output_stream_writev_nonblocking ()

GPollableReturn
g_pollable_output_stream_writev_nonblocking
                               (GPollableOutputStream *stream,
                                const GOutputVector *vectors,
                                gsize n_vectors,
                                gsize *bytes_written,
                                GCancellable *cancellable,
                                GError **error);

Attempts to write the bytes contained in the n_vectors vectors to stream , as with g_output_stream_writev(). If stream is not currently writable, this will immediately return %G_POLLABLE_RETURN_WOULD_BLOCK , and you can use g_pollable_output_stream_create_source() to create a GSource that will be triggered when stream is writable. error will *not* be set in that case.

Note that since this method never blocks, you cannot actually use cancellable to cancel it. However, it will return an error if cancellable has already been cancelled when you call, which may happen if you call this method after a source triggers due to having been cancelled.

Also note that if G_POLLABLE_RETURN_WOULD_BLOCK is returned some underlying transports like D/TLS require that you re-send the same vectors and n_vectors in the next write call.

Virtual: writev_nonblocking

Parameters

stream

a GPollableOutputStream

 

vectors

the buffer containing the GOutputVectors to write.

[array length=n_vectors]

n_vectors

the number of vectors to write

 

bytes_written

location to store the number of bytes that were written to the stream.

[out][optional]

cancellable

a GCancellable, or NULL.

[nullable]

error

GError for error reporting, or NULL to ignore.

 

Returns

%G_POLLABLE_RETURN_OK on success, G_POLLABLE_RETURN_WOULD_BLOCK if the stream is not currently writable (and error is *not* set), or G_POLLABLE_RETURN_FAILED if there was an error in which case error will be set.

Since: 2.60

Types and Values

GPollableOutputStream

typedef struct _GPollableOutputStream GPollableOutputStream;

An interface for a GOutputStream that can be polled for writeability.

Since: 2.28


struct GPollableOutputStreamInterface

struct GPollableOutputStreamInterface {
  GTypeInterface g_iface;

  /* Virtual Table */
  gboolean     (*can_poll)          (GPollableOutputStream  *stream);

  gboolean     (*is_writable)       (GPollableOutputStream  *stream);
  GSource *    (*create_source)     (GPollableOutputStream  *stream,
				     GCancellable           *cancellable);
  gssize       (*write_nonblocking) (GPollableOutputStream  *stream,
				     const void             *buffer,
				     gsize                   count,
				     GError                **error);
  GPollableReturn (*writev_nonblocking) (GPollableOutputStream  *stream,
					 const GOutputVector    *vectors,
					 gsize                   n_vectors,
					 gsize                  *bytes_written,
					 GError                **error);
};

The interface for pollable output streams.

The default implementation of can_poll always returns TRUE.

The default implementation of write_nonblocking calls g_pollable_output_stream_is_writable(), and then calls g_output_stream_write() if it returns TRUE. This means you only need to override it if it is possible that your is_writable implementation may return TRUE when the stream is not actually writable.

The default implementation of writev_nonblocking calls g_pollable_output_stream_write_nonblocking() for each vector, and converts its return value and error (if set) to a GPollableReturn. You should override this where possible to avoid having to allocate a GError to return G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK.

Members

can_poll ()

Checks if the GPollableOutputStream instance is actually pollable

 

is_writable ()

Checks if the stream is writable

 

create_source ()

Creates a GSource to poll the stream

 

write_nonblocking ()

Does a non-blocking write or returns G_IO_ERROR_WOULD_BLOCK

 

writev_nonblocking ()

Does a vectored non-blocking write, or returns G_POLLABLE_RETURN_WOULD_BLOCK

 

Since: 2.28