Virtual Method

EDataBookBookMetaBackendload_contact_sync

since: 3.26

Declaration [src]

gboolean
load_contact_sync (
  EBookMetaBackend* meta_backend,
  const gchar* uid,
  const gchar* extra,
  EContact** out_contact,
  gchar** out_extra,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Loads a contact from the remote side.

It is mandatory to implement this virtual method by the descendant.

The returned out_contact should be freed with g_object_unref(), when no longer needed.

The returned out_extra should be freed with g_free(), when no longer needed.

Available since: 3.26

Parameters

uid

Type: const gchar*

A contact UID.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
extra

Type: const gchar*

Optional extra data stored with the contact, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
out_contact

Type: EContact

A loaded contact, as an EContact.

The argument will be set by the function.
The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
out_extra

Type: gchar**

An extra data to store to EBookCache with this contact.

The argument will be set by the function.
The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the virtual function if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: gboolean

Whether succeeded.