get_attribute_as_string

Gets the value of an attribute, formatted as a human readable string.

This escapes things as needed to make the string valid UTF-8 and readable by humans. It’s not meant to be a machine readable or reversible escaping format.

To format file name attributes of type [enum@Gio.FileAttributeType.BYTE_STRING] for output as UTF-8, use [func@GLib.filename_to_utf8] instead: ```c const char *trash_orig_path_byte_string; g_autofree char *trash_orig_path_utf8 = NULL;

trash_orig_path_byte_string = g_file_info_get_attribute_byte_string (info, G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TRASH_ORIG_PATH); trash_orig_path_utf8 = g_filename_to_utf8 (trash_orig_path_byte_string, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (trash_orig_path_utf8 != NULL) g_message ("Some larger UTF-8 string with filename embedded as s", trash_orig_path_utf8); ```

Parameters:

this	a FileInfo.
attribute	a file attribute key.

Returns:

a UTF-8 string associated with the given attribute, or null if the attribute wasn’t set. When you're done with the string it must be freed with g_free.