Method

VipsTargetsteal

Declaration [src]

unsigned char*
vips_target_steal (
  VipsTarget* target,
  size_t* length
)

Description [src]

Memory targets only (see vips_target_new_to_memory()). Steal all data written to the target so far, and call vips_target_end().

You must free the returned pointer with g_free().

The data is NOT automatically null-terminated. Use vips_target_putc() with a ‘\0’ before calling this to get a null-terminated string.

You can’t call this after vips_target_end(), since that moves the data to a blob, and we can’t steal from that in case the pointer has been shared.

You can’t call this function more than once.

Parameters

length

Type: size_t*

Return number of bytes of data.

The argument will be set by the function.

Return value

Type: An array of guint8

The data.

The length of the array is in the length argument.
The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.