Method

FwupdClientdownload_bytes

since: 1.4.5

Declaration [src]

GBytes*
fwupd_client_download_bytes (
  FwupdClient* self,
  const gchar* url,
  FwupdClientDownloadFlags flags,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Downloads data from a remote server. The fwupd_client_set_user_agent() function should be called before this method is used.

Available since: 1.4.5

Parameters

url

Type: const gchar*

The remote URL.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

flags

Type: FwupdClientDownloadFlags

Download flags, e.g. FWUPD_CLIENT_DOWNLOAD_FLAG_NONE.

cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GBytes

Downloaded data, or NULL for error.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.