Function

FwupdPluginbyte_array_from_string

since: 1.9.6

Declaration [src]

GByteArray*
fu_byte_array_from_string (
  const gchar* str,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Converts a lowercase hex string to a byte array.

Available since: 1.9.6

Parameters

str

Type: const gchar*

A hex string.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

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 function 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: An array of guint8

A GByteArray, or NULL on error.

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