Metadata

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Object Hierarchy:

Description:

Content:

Static methods:

• public static FormatStyle file_guess_style (string filename)
  Guesses the AppStream metadata style (metainfo or catalog) based on the filename.

Creation methods:

• public Metadata ()
  Creates a new Metadata.

Methods:

• public void add_component (Component cpt)
  Add an Component to the list of components.
• public void clear_components ()
  Remove all previously parsed or manually added components.
• public void clear_releases ()
  Remove all previously parsed releases entries.
• public string component_to_metainfo (FormatKind format) throws Error
  Convert an Component to metainfo data.
• public string components_to_catalog (FormatKind format) throws Error
  Serialize all Component instances into AppStream catalog metadata.
• public unowned string get_architecture ()
• public unowned Component? get_component ()
  Gets the Component which has been parsed from the XML.
• public unowned ComponentBox get_components ()
• public FormatStyle get_format_style ()
  Get the metadata parsing mode.
• public FormatVersion get_format_version ()
• public unowned string get_locale ()
  Gets the current active locale for parsing metadata, or "ALL" if all locales are read.
• public unowned string get_media_baseurl ()
• public unowned string get_origin ()
• public ParseFlags get_parse_flags ()
  Get the metadata parse flags.
• public unowned ReleaseList? get_release_list ()
  Gets the recently parsed ReleaseList entry.
• public unowned GenericArray<ReleaseList> get_release_lists ()
• public bool get_update_existing ()
• public bool get_write_header ()
• public bool parse_bytes (Bytes bytes, FormatKind format) throws Error
  Parses any AppStream metadata into one or more Component instances.
• public bool parse_data (string data, ssize_t data_len, FormatKind format) throws Error
  Parses any AppStream metadata into one or more Component instances.
• public bool parse_desktop_data (string cid, string data, ssize_t data_len) throws Error
  Parses XDG Desktop Entry metadata and adds it to the list of parsed entities.
• public bool parse_file (File file, FormatKind format) throws Error
  Parses an AppStream upstream metadata file.
• public bool parse_releases_bytes (Bytes bytes) throws Error
  Parses any AppStream release metadata into Release objects.
• public bool parse_releases_file (File file) throws Error
  Parses any AppStream release metadata into Release objects using the provided file.
• public string releases_to_data (ReleaseList releases) throws Error
  Convert a releases of an ReleaseList entity into a release metadata XML representation.
• public bool save_catalog (string fname, FormatKind format) throws Error
  Serialize all Component instances to XML or YAML metadata and save the data to a file.
• public bool save_metainfo (string fname, FormatKind format) throws Error
  Serialize Component instance to XML and save it to file.
• public void set_architecture (string arch)
  Set the architecture the components in this metadata belong to.
• public void set_format_style (FormatStyle mode)
  Sets the current metadata parsing mode.
• public void set_format_version (FormatVersion version)
  Set the current AppStream format version that we should generate data for or be able to read.
• public void set_locale (string locale)
  Sets the locale which should be read when processing metadata.
• public void set_media_baseurl (string url)
  Set the base URL for all media links referenced in the metadata, or null if every component has absolute URLs.
• public void set_origin (string origin)
  Set the origin of AppStream distro metadata
• public void set_parse_flags (ParseFlags flags)
  Sets the current metadata parse flags.
• public void set_update_existing (bool update)
  If set to true, the parser will not create new components but instead update existing components in the pool with new metadata.
• public void set_write_header (bool wheader)
  If set to true, tehe metadata writer will omit writing a DEP-11 header document when in YAML mode, and will not write a root components node when writing XML data.

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