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The goal is to overcome the - shortcomings of GnomeVFS and provide an API that is so good that - developers prefer it over raw POSIX calls. Among other things - that means using GObject. It also means not cloning the POSIX - API, but providing higher-level, document-centric interfaces. - </p> -<p> - The abstract file system model of GIO consists of a number of - interfaces and base classes for I/O and files: - </p> -<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"> -<col align="left" valign="top"> -<tbody> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GFile</span></p></td> -<td><p>reference to a file</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GFileInfo</span></p></td> -<td><p>information about a file or filesystem</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GFileEnumerator</span></p></td> -<td><p>list files in directories</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GDrive</span></p></td> -<td><p>represents a drive</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GVolume</span></p></td> -<td><p>represents a file system in an abstract way</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GMount</span></p></td> -<td><p>represents a mounted file system</p></td> -</tr> -</tbody> -</table></div> -<p> - Then there is a number of stream classes, similar to the input and - output stream hierarchies that can be found in frameworks like Java: - </p> -<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"> -<col align="left" valign="top"> -<tbody> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GInputStream</span></p></td> -<td><p>read data</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GOutputStream</span></p></td> -<td><p>write data</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GIOStream</span></p></td> -<td><p>read and write data</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GSeekable</span></p></td> -<td><p>interface optionally implemented by streams to support seeking</p></td> -</tr> -</tbody> -</table></div> -<p> - There are interfaces related to applications and the types - of files they handle: - </p> -<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"> -<col align="left" valign="top"> -<tbody> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GAppInfo</span></p></td> -<td><p>information about an installed application</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GIcon</span></p></td> -<td><p>abstract type for file and application icons</p></td> -</tr> -</tbody> -</table></div> -<p> - There is a framework for storing and retrieving application settings: - </p> -<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"> -<col align="left" valign="top"> -<tbody><tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GSettings</span></p></td> -<td><p>stores and retrieves application settings</p></td> -</tr></tbody> -</table></div> -<p> - There is support for network programming, including connectivity monitoring, - name resolution, lowlevel socket APIs and highlevel client and server - helper classes: - </p> -<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"> -<col align="left" valign="top"> -<tbody> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GSocket</span></p></td> -<td><p>lowlevel platform independent socket object</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GResolver</span></p></td> -<td><p>asynchronous and cancellable DNS resolver</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GSocketClient</span></p></td> -<td><p>high-level network client helper</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GSocketService</span></p></td> -<td><p>high-level network server helper</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GSocketConnection</span></p></td> -<td><p>network connection stream</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GNetworkMonitor</span></p></td> -<td><p>network connectivity monitoring</p></td> -</tr> -</tbody> -</table></div> -<p> - There is support for connecting to D-Bus, - sending and receiving messages, owning and watching bus names, - and making objects available on the bus: - </p> -<div class="variablelist"><table border="0"> -<col align="left" valign="top"> -<tbody> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GDBusConnection</span></p></td> -<td><p>a D-Bus connection</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GDBusMethodInvocation</span></p></td> -<td><p>for handling remove calls</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GDBusServer</span></p></td> -<td><p>helper for accepting connections</p></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><p><span class="term">GDBusProxy</span></p></td> -<td><p>proxy to access D-Bus interfaces on a remote object</p></td> -</tr> -</tbody> -</table></div> -<p> - Beyond these, GIO provides facilities for file monitoring, - asynchronous I/O and filename completion. In addition to the - interfaces, GIO provides implementations for the local case. - Implementations for various network file systems are provided - by the GVFS package as loadable modules. - </p> -<p> - Other design choices which consciously break with the GnomeVFS - design are to move backends out-of-process, which minimizes the - dependency bloat and makes the whole system more robust. The backends - are not included in GIO, but in the separate GVFS package. The GVFS - package also contains the GVFS daemon, which spawn further mount - daemons for each individual connection. - </p> -<div class="figure"> -<a name="gvfs-overview"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 1. GIO in the GTK+ library stack</b></p> -<div class="figure-contents"><div><img src="gvfs-overview.png" alt="GIO in the GTK+ library stack"></div></div> -</div> -<br class="figure-break"><p> - The GIO model of I/O is stateful: if an application establishes e.g. - a SFTP connection to a server, it becomes available to all applications - in the session; the user does not have to enter his password over - and over again. - </p> -<p> - One of the big advantages of putting the VFS in the GLib layer - is that GTK+ can directly use it, e.g. in the filechooser. - </p> -</div> -<div class="footer"> -<hr> - Generated by GTK-Doc V1.18</div> -</body> -</html>
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