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Rust GLib and GObject bindings

Rust bindings and wrappers for GLib, part of gtk-rs-core.

GLib 2.56 is the lowest supported version for the underlying library.

This library contains bindings to GLib and GObject types and APIs as well as common building blocks used in both handmade and machine generated bindings to GTK and other GLib-based libraries.

It is the foundation for higher level libraries with uniform Rusty (safe and strongly typed) APIs. It avoids exposing GLib-specific data types where possible and is not meant to provide comprehensive GLib bindings, which would often amount to duplicating the Rust Standard Library or other utility crates.

Minimum supported Rust version

Currently, the minimum supported Rust version is 1.65.0.

Dynamic typing

Most types in the GLib family have Type identifiers. Their corresponding Rust types implement the StaticType trait.

A dynamically typed Value can carry values of any StaticType. Variants can carry values of StaticVariantType.

Errors

Errors are represented by Error, which can carry values from various error domains such as FileError.

Objects

Each class and interface has a corresponding smart pointer struct representing an instance of that type (e.g. Object for GObject or gtk::Widget for GtkWidget). They are reference counted and feature interior mutability similarly to Rust’s Rc<RefCell<T>> idiom. Consequently, cloning objects is cheap and their methods never require mutable borrows. Two smart pointers are equal if they point to the same object.

The root of the object hierarchy is Object. Inheritance and subtyping is denoted with the IsA marker trait. The Cast trait enables upcasting and downcasting.

Interfaces and non-leaf classes also have corresponding traits (e.g. ObjectExt or gtk::WidgetExt), which are blanketly implemented for all their subtypes.

You can create new subclasses of Object or other object types. Look at the module’s documentation for further details and a code example.

Under the hood

GLib-based libraries largely operate on pointers to various boxed or reference counted structures so the bindings have to implement corresponding smart pointers (wrappers), which encapsulate resource management and safety checks. Such wrappers are defined via the wrapper macro, which uses abstractions defined in the wrapper, boxed, shared and object modules.

The translate module defines and partly implements conversions between high level Rust types (including the aforementioned wrappers) and their FFI counterparts.

Documentation

Using

We recommend using crates from crates.io, as demonstrated here.

If you want to track the bleeding edge, use the git dependency instead:

[dependencies]
glib = { git = "https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core.git", package = "glib" }

Avoid mixing versioned and git crates like this:

# This will not compile
[dependencies]
glib = "0.13"
glib = { git = "https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core.git", package = "glib" }

License

glib is available under the MIT License, please refer to it.

Re-exports

Modules

  • boxed
    IMPL Boxed wrapper implementation.
  • boxed_inline
    IMPL BoxedInline wrapper implementation.
  • char
  • clone
  • closure
  • collections
  • error
    Error binding and helper trait.
  • object
    IMPL Object wrapper implementation and Object binding.
  • prelude
    Traits and essential types intended for blanket imports.
  • shared
    IMPL Shared (reference counted) wrapper implementation.
  • signal
    IMPL Low level signal support.
  • source
  • subclass
    Module containing infrastructure for subclassing GObjects and registering boxed types.
  • thread_guard
  • translate
    Translation between GLib/GLib-based FFI types and their Rust counterparts.
  • types
    Runtime type information.
  • value
    Value binding and helper traits.
  • variant
    Variant binding and helper traits.
  • wrapper
    IMPL The wrapper! macro and miscellaneous wrapper traits.

Macros

  • bool_error
    Generic error used for functions that fail without any further information
  • clone
    Macro for passing variables as strong or weak references into a closure.
  • closure
    Macro for creating a Closure object. This is a wrapper around Closure::new that automatically type checks its arguments at run-time.
  • closure_local
    The same as closure! but uses Closure::new_local as a constructor. This is useful for closures which can’t be sent across threads. See the documentation of closure! for details.
  • debuglog and log_macros
    A macro which behaves exactly as log::debug! except that it sets the current log target to the contents of a G_LOG_DOMAIN constant (and fails to build if not defined).
  • errorlog and log_macros
    A macro which behaves exactly as log::error! except that it sets the current log target to the contents of a G_LOG_DOMAIN constant (and fails to build if not defined).
  • function_name
    This macro returns the name of the enclosing function. As the internal implementation is based on the std::any::type_name, this macro derives all the limitations of this function.
  • g_critical
    Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.
  • g_debug
    Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.
  • g_error
    Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.
  • g_info
    Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.
  • g_log
    Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.
  • g_message
    Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.
  • g_print
    Macro used to print messages. It uses g_print.
  • g_printerr
    Macro used to print error messages. It uses g_printerr.
  • g_warning
    Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.
  • gformat
    Creates a GString using interpolation of runtime expressions.
  • glib_boxed_inline_wrapper
    Wrapper implementations for BoxedInline types. See wrapper!.
  • glib_boxed_wrapper
    Wrapper implementations for Boxed types. See wrapper!.
  • glib_object_wrapper
    ObjectType implementations for Object types. See wrapper!.
  • glib_shared_wrapper
    Wrapper implementations for shared types. See wrapper!.
  • gstr
    Converts a static string literal into a static nul-terminated string.
  • infolog and log_macros
    A macro which behaves exactly as log::info! except that it sets the current log target to the contents of a G_LOG_DOMAIN constant (and fails to build if not defined).
  • log_structured
    Macro used to log using GLib structured logging system.
  • result_from_gboolean
  • tracelog and log_macros
    A macro which behaves exactly as log::trace! except that it sets the current log target to the contents of a G_LOG_DOMAIN constant (and fails to build if not defined).
  • warnlog and log_macros
    A macro which behaves exactly as log::warn! except that it sets the current log target to the contents of a G_LOG_DOMAIN constant (and fails to build if not defined).
  • wrapper
    Defines a wrapper type and implements the appropriate traits.

Structs

Enums

  • ChecksumType
    The hashing algorithm to be used by Checksum when performing the digest of some data.
  • ConvertError
    Error codes returned by character set conversion routines.
  • CvtError
    A wrapper for ConvertError that can hold an offset into the input string.
  • DateMonth
    Enumeration representing a month; values are January, February, etc. BadMonth is the invalid value.
  • DateWeekday
    Enumeration representing a day of the week; Monday, Tuesday, etc. BadWeekday is an invalid weekday.
  • FileError
    Values corresponding to errno codes returned from file operations on UNIX. Unlike errno codes, GFileError values are available on all systems, even Windows. The exact meaning of each code depends on what sort of file operation you were performing; the UNIX documentation gives more details. The following error code descriptions come from the GNU C Library manual, and are under the copyright of that manual.
  • GStrError
    Error type holding all possible failures when creating a GStr reference.
  • GStringFromError
    Error type holding all possible failures when creating a GString.
  • GlibLoggerDomainlog
    Enumeration of the possible domain handling behaviours for a GlibLogger.
  • GlibLoggerFormatlog
    Enumeration of the possible formatting behaviours for a GlibLogger.
  • IConvError
    A wrapper for std::io::Error that can hold an offset into an input string.
  • KeyFileError
    Error codes returned by key file parsing.
  • LogLevel
  • LogWriterOutput
    Return values from GLogWriterFuncs to indicate whether the given log entry was successfully handled by the writer, or whether there was an error in handling it (and hence a fallback writer should be used).
  • MarkupError
    Error codes returned by markup parsing.
  • NormalizeMode
    Defines how a Unicode string is transformed in a canonical form, standardizing such issues as whether a character with an accent is represented as a base character and combining accent or as a single precomposed character. Unicode strings should generally be normalized before comparing them.
  • OptionArg
    The OptionArg enum values determine which type of extra argument the options expect to find. If an option expects an extra argument, it can be specified in several ways; with a short option: -x arg, with a long option: --name arg or combined in a single argument: --name=arg.
  • SeekType
    An enumeration specifying the base position for a g_io_channel_seek_position() operation.
  • TimeType
    Disambiguates a given time in two ways.
  • UnicodeScript
    The UnicodeScript enumeration identifies different writing systems. The values correspond to the names as defined in the Unicode standard. The enumeration has been added in GLib 2.14, and is interchangeable with PangoScript.
  • UriErrorv2_66
    Error codes returned by Uri methods.
  • UserDirectory
    These are logical ids for special directories which are defined depending on the platform used. You should use user_special_dir() to retrieve the full path associated to the logical id.
  • VariantClass
    The range of possible top-level types of Variant instances.

Constants

  • CLONE_MACRO_LOG_DOMAIN
    This is the log domain used by the clone! macro. If you want to use a custom logger (it prints to stdout by default), you can set your own logger using the corresponding log functions.
  • NONE_STR

Statics

Traits

  • HasParamSpec
  • IntoGStr
    A trait to accept both &str or &GStr as an argument.
  • IntoOptionalGStr
    A trait to accept both Option<&str> or Option<&GStr> as an argument.
  • ParamSpecBuilderExt
    A trait implemented by the various ParamSpec builder types.
  • ParamSpecType
  • Property
    A type that can be used as a property. It covers every type which have an associated ParamSpec (HasParamSpec) and some useful types wrapping HasParamSpec. The definition is recursive, so you can nest many Propertys together. The final ParamSpec will be the one of the innermost type
  • PropertyGet
    A container type implementing this trait can be read by the default getter generated by the Props macro.
  • PropertySet
    A container type implementing this trait can be written by the default setter generated by the Props macro.
  • PropertySetNested
    A container type implementing this trait can be written by the default setter generated by the Props macro. It takes a FnOnce(&mut Self::Value) so that the caller may access nested fields of a struct by doing ${Self::Value}.member

Functions

Type Definitions

Attribute Macros

Derive Macros