Blob

Object Hierarchy:

Gda.Blob Gda.Blob Gda.Blob

Description:

[ CCode ( copy_function = "g_boxed_copy" , free_function = "g_boxed_free" , type_id = "gda_blob_get_type ()" ) ]
[ Compact ]
public class Blob

Represents some binary data, accessed through a BlobOp object.

op is generally set up by database providers when giving access to an existing BLOB in a database, but can be modified if needed using set_op.


Namespace: Gda
Package: libgda-6.0

Content:

Creation methods:

  • public Blob ()
    Creates a new Blob.

Methods:

  • public Blob copy ()
    Creates a new Blob structure from an existing one.
  • public void free ()
    Deallocates all memory associated to the given Blob .
  • public unowned Binary get_binary ()
  • public unowned BlobOp get_op ()
  • public void set_op (BlobOp? op)
    Correctly assigns op to this (increases op's reference count)
  • public string to_string (uint maxlen)
    Converts all the non printable characters of blob->data into the \xxx representation where xxx is the octal representation of the byte, and the '\' (backslash) character is converted to "\\".