Struct glib::char::Char[][src]

pub struct Char(pub c_char);
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Wrapper for values where C functions expect a plain C char

Consider the following C function prototype from glib:

void g_key_file_set_list_separator (GKeyFile *key_file, gchar separator);

This function plainly expects a byte as the separator argument. However, having this function exposed to Rust as the following would be inconvenient:

impl KeyFile {
    pub fn set_list_separator(&self, separator: libc:c_char) { }
}

This would be inconvenient because users would have to do the conversion from a Rust char to an libc::c_char by hand, which is just a type alias for i8 on most system.

This Char type is a wrapper over an libc::c_char, so that we can pass it to Glib or C functions. The check for whether a Rust char (a Unicode scalar value) actually fits in a libc::c_char is done in the new function; see its documentation for details.

The inner libc::c_char (which is equivalent to i8 can be extracted with .0, or by calling my_char.into_glib().

Examples

use glib::Char;
use std::convert::TryFrom;

Char::from(b'a');
Char::try_from('a').unwrap();
assert!(Char::try_from('☔').is_err());
extern "C" fn have_a_byte(b: libc::c_char);

have_a_byte(Char::from(b'a').into_glib());

Trait Implementations

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This method tests for !=.

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

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Performs the conversion.