GnomeVFS - Filesystem Abstraction library

GnomeVFS - Filesystem Abstraction library

Seth Nickell

snickell@Stanford.edu

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Table of Contents

Introduction to GnomeVFS

Uses and Purpose

User's Perspective
Developer's Perspective

A Gentle Programming Primer

Simple Sample Program
Conversion of a Sample Code Block

Basic File Operations

Basic File I/O — synchronous file operations similar to posix calls, but using uris
Directory Operations — loading and parsing directory contents
Finding Special Directories — how to locate special directories such as the trash and desktop
Asynchronous File I/O — allows for non-blocking file operations
Copy Engine — asynchronous copy/move/delete engine
Module Callbacks — registering for special callbacks from gnome-vfs module operations
Standard Callbacks — module callbacks pre-defined by gnome-vfs

Common Data Types

types —
File Info —
Result Codes — utilities for interpreting GnomeVFS Result codes
uri —

MIME types & the Application Registry

Algorithmic Sniff Buffer — algorithmic detection of mime type for select file types
Application Registry — a database of the available applications and their capabilities
Magic MIME Detection — functions for parsing the magic mime database
MIME Type Detection — detecting the mime type of a URI
MIME Handlers — functions for getting and manipulating the actions to be performed on mime types
mime-info —
mime-monitor —

Filesystem Modules

Writing Modules — basic gnome-vfs module concepts
method —
module-shared —
module —
Module Callbacks (Module API) — interface to module callbacks for use by gnome-vfs modules
inet-connection —
iobuf —
parse-ls —
process —
ssl —

Other APIs

Cancellation —
Configuration —
Context —
File Size —
Initialization — initializing and shutting down gnome-vfs
utils —

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