Memory-managed wrapper type.

A convenience alias for Nothing :: Maybe Bytes.

Compares the two Bytes values.

This function can be used to sort GBytes instances in lexicographical order.

If bytes1 and bytes2 have different length but the shorter one is a prefix of the longer one then the shorter one is considered to be less than the longer one. Otherwise the first byte where both differ is used for comparison. If bytes1 has a smaller value at that position it is considered less, otherwise greater than bytes2.

Since: 2.32

Compares the two Bytes values being pointed to and returns True if they are equal.

This function can be passed to g_hash_table_new() as the keyEqualFunc parameter, when using non-Nothing Bytes pointers as keys in a HashTable.

Since: 2.32

Get the byte data in the Bytes. This data should not be modified.

This function will always return the same pointer for a given Bytes.

Nothing may be returned if size is 0. This is not guaranteed, as the Bytes may represent an empty string with data non-Nothing and size as 0. Nothing will not be returned if size is non-zero.

Since: 2.32

Get the size of the byte data in the Bytes.

This function will always return the same value for a given Bytes.

Since: 2.32

Creates an integer hash code for the byte data in the Bytes.

This function can be passed to g_hash_table_new() as the keyHashFunc parameter, when using non-Nothing Bytes pointers as keys in a HashTable.

Since: 2.32

Creates a new Bytes from data.

data is copied. If size is 0, data may be Nothing.

Since: 2.32

Creates a Bytes which is a subsection of another Bytes. The offset + length may not be longer than the size of bytes.

A reference to bytes will be held by the newly created Bytes until the byte data is no longer needed.

Since 2.56, if offset is 0 and length matches the size of bytes, then bytes will be returned with the reference count incremented by 1. If bytes is a slice of another Bytes, then the resulting Bytes will reference the same Bytes instead of bytes. This allows consumers to simplify the usage of Bytes when asynchronously writing to streams.

Since: 2.32

Creates a new Bytes from data.

After this call, data belongs to the bytes and may no longer be modified by the caller. free will be called on data when the bytes is no longer in use. Because of this data must have been created by a call to malloc, malloc0 or realloc or by one of the many functions that wrap these calls (such as g_new(), strdup, etc).

For creating Bytes with memory from other allocators, see g_bytes_new_with_free_func().

data may be Nothing if size is 0.

Since: 2.32

Increase the reference count on bytes.

Since: 2.32

Releases a reference on bytes. This may result in the bytes being freed. If bytes is Nothing, it will return immediately.

Since: 2.32

Unreferences the bytes, and returns a new mutable ByteArray containing the same byte data.

As an optimization, the byte data is transferred to the array without copying if this was the last reference to bytes and bytes was created with bytesNew, bytesNewTake or byteArrayFreeToBytes. In all other cases the data is copied.

Since: 2.32

Unreferences the bytes, and returns a pointer the same byte data contents.

As an optimization, the byte data is returned without copying if this was the last reference to bytes and bytes was created with bytesNew, bytesNewTake or byteArrayFreeToBytes. In all other cases the data is copied.

Since: 2.32