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Rust GLib and GObject bindings

Rust bindings and wrappers for GLib, part of gtk-rs-core.

GLib 2.48 is the lowest supported version for the underlying library.

This library contains bindings to GLib and GObject types and APIs as well as common building blocks used in both handmade and machine generated bindings to GTK and other GLib-based libraries.

It is the foundation for higher level libraries with uniform Rusty (safe and strongly typed) APIs. It avoids exposing GLib-specific data types where possible and is not meant to provide comprehensive GLib bindings, which would often amount to duplicating the Rust Standard Library or other utility crates.

Minimum supported Rust version

Currently, the minimum supported Rust version is 1.56.0.

Dynamic typing

Most types in the GLib family have Type identifiers. Their corresponding Rust types implement the StaticType trait.

A dynamically typed Value can carry values of any StaticType. Variants can carry values of StaticVariantType.

Errors

Errors are represented by Error, which can carry values from various error domains such as FileError.

Objects

Each class and interface has a corresponding smart pointer struct representing an instance of that type (e.g. Object for GObject or gtk::Widget for GtkWidget). They are reference counted and feature interior mutability similarly to Rust’s Rc<RefCell<T>> idiom. Consequently, cloning objects is cheap and their methods never require mutable borrows. Two smart pointers are equal if they point to the same object.

The root of the object hierarchy is Object. Inheritance and subtyping is denoted with the IsA marker trait. The Cast trait enables upcasting and downcasting.

Interfaces and non-leaf classes also have corresponding traits (e.g. ObjectExt or gtk::WidgetExt), which are blanketly implemented for all their subtypes.

You can create new subclasses of Object or other object types. Look at the module’s documentation for further details and a code example.

Under the hood

GLib-based libraries largely operate on pointers to various boxed or reference counted structures so the bindings have to implement corresponding smart pointers (wrappers), which encapsulate resource management and safety checks. Such wrappers are defined via the wrapper macro, which uses abstractions defined in the wrapper, boxed, shared and object modules.

The translate module defines and partly implements conversions between high level Rust types (including the aforementioned wrappers) and their FFI counterparts.

Documentation

Using

We recommend using crates from crates.io, as demonstrated here.

If you want to track the bleeding edge, use the git dependency instead:

[dependencies]
glib = { git = "https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core.git", package = "glib" }

Avoid mixing versioned and git crates like this:

[dependencies]
glib = "0.13"
glib = { git = "https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core.git", package = "glib" }

License

glib is available under the MIT License, please refer to it.

Re-exports

pub use ffi;
pub use gobject_ffi;
pub use self::closure::Closure;
pub use self::closure::RustClosure;
pub use self::error::BoolError;
pub use self::error::Error;
pub use self::object::Cast;
pub use self::object::Class;
pub use self::object::InitiallyUnowned;
pub use self::object::Interface;
pub use self::object::IsA;
pub use self::object::Object;
pub use self::object::ObjectExt;
pub use self::object::ObjectType;
pub use self::object::SendWeakRef;
pub use self::object::WeakRef;
pub use self::signal::signal_handler_block;
pub use self::signal::signal_handler_disconnect;
pub use self::signal::signal_handler_unblock;
pub use self::signal::signal_stop_emission_by_name;
pub use self::signal::SignalHandlerId;
pub use self::types::ILong;
pub use self::types::Pointer;
pub use self::types::StaticType;
pub use self::types::StaticTypeExt;
pub use self::types::Type;
pub use self::types::ULong;
pub use self::value::BoxedValue;
pub use self::value::SendValue;
pub use self::value::ToSendValue;
pub use self::value::ToValue;
pub use self::value::Value;
pub use self::variant::FixedSizeVariantArray;
pub use self::variant::FixedSizeVariantType;
pub use self::variant::FromVariant;
pub use self::variant::StaticVariantType;
pub use self::variant::ToVariant;
pub use self::variant::Variant;
pub use collections::List;
pub use collections::PtrSlice;
pub use collections::SList;
pub use collections::Slice;
pub use self::char::*;
pub use self::source::*;
pub use self::send_unique::SendUnique;
pub use self::send_unique::SendUniqueCell;

Modules

IMPL Boxed wrapper implementation.

IMPL BoxedInline wrapper implementation.

Error binding and helper trait.

IMPL Object wrapper implementation and Object binding.

Traits and essential types intended for blanket imports.

IMPL Shared (reference counted) wrapper implementation.

IMPL Low level signal support.

Module containing infrastructure for subclassing GObjects and registering boxed types.

Translation between GLib/GLib-based FFI types and their Rust counterparts.

Runtime type information.

Value binding and helper traits.

Variant binding and helper traits.

IMPL The wrapper! macro and miscellaneous wrapper traits.

Macros

Generic error used for functions that fail without any further information

Macro for passing variables as strong or weak references into a closure.

Macro for creating a Closure object. This is a wrapper around Closure::new that automatically type checks its arguments at run-time.

The same as closure! but uses Closure::new_local as a constructor. This is useful for closures which can’t be sent across threads. See the documentation of closure! for details.

Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.

Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.

Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.

Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.

Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.

Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.

Macro used to print messages. It uses g_print.

Macro used to print error messages. It uses g_printerr.

Macro used to log using GLib logging system. It uses g_log.

Wrapper implementations for BoxedInline types. See wrapper!.

Wrapper implementations for Boxed types. See wrapper!.

ObjectType implementations for Object types. See wrapper!.

Wrapper implementations for shared types. See wrapper!.

Converts a static string literal into a static nul-terminated string.

Macro used to log using GLib structured logging system.

Defines a wrapper type and implements the appropriate traits.

Structs

This is a subclass of glib::object::Object capable of storing any Rust type. It let’s you insert a Rust type anywhere a glib::object::Object is needed. The inserted value can then be borrowed as a Rust type, by using the various provided methods.

A shared immutable byte slice (the equivalent of Rc<[u8]>).

A CollationKey allows ordering strings using the linguistically correct rules for the current locale.

Representation of an enum for dynamically, at runtime, querying the values of the enum and using them.

Representation of a single enum value of an EnumClass.

A FilenameCollationKey allows ordering file names using the linguistically correct rules for the current locale. Compared to CollationKey, filename collation keys take into consideration dots and other characters commonly found in file names.

Builder for conveniently setting/unsetting flags and returning a Value.

Representation of a flags for dynamically, at runtime, querying the values of the enum and using them

Representation of a single flags value of a FlagsClass.

Representaion of a borrowed GString.

A type representing an owned, C-compatible, nul-terminated UTF-8 string.

A mutable text buffer that grows automatically.

Structure representing a single field in a structured log entry.

A Receiver that can be attached to a main context to receive items from its corresponding Sender or SyncSender.

A Sender that can be used to send items to the corresponding main context receiver.

Represents a Future around a glib::Source. The future will be resolved once the source has provided a value

Represents a Stream around a glib::Source. The stream will be provide all values that are provided by the source

A SyncSender that can be used to send items to the corresponding main context receiver.

A value representing an interval of time, in microseconds.

VariantDict is a mutable key/value store where the keys are always strings and the values are Variants.

Iterator over items in a variant.

Iterator over items in a variant of type as.

Describes Variant types.

An iterator over the individual components of a tuple VariantTy.

Describes Variant types.

Enums

Constants

This is the log domain used by the clone! macro. If you want to use a custom logger (it prints to stdout by default), you can set your own logger using the corresponding log functions.

Statics

Traits

Functions

Obtain the character set for the current locale.

Create a Future that will resolve once the child process with the given pid exits

Create a Future that will resolve once the child process with the given pid exits

Create a Stream that will provide a value every given number of milliseconds.

Create a Stream that will provide a value every given number of seconds.

Create a Stream that will provide a value every given number of seconds.

Create a Stream that will provide a value every given number of milliseconds.

To set back the default print handler, use the log_unset_default_handler function.

To set the default print handler, use the log_set_default_handler function.

To set back the default print handler, use the unset_print_handler function.

To set back the default print handler, use the unset_printerr_handler function.

Create a Future that will resolve after the given number of milliseconds.

Create a Future that will resolve after the given number of seconds.

Create a Future that will resolve after the given number of seconds.

Create a Future that will resolve after the given number of milliseconds.

Create a Future that will resolve once the given UNIX signal is raised

Create a Future that will resolve once the given UNIX signal is raised

Create a Stream that will provide a value whenever the given UNIX signal is raised

Create a Stream that will provide a value whenever the given UNIX signal is raised

To set the default print handler, use the set_print_handler function.

To set the default print handler, use the set_printerr_handler function.

Type Definitions

Attribute Macros

Attribute macro for defining flags using the bitflags crate. This macro will also define a GFlags::type_ function and the glib::Value traits.

Macro for boilerplate of ObjectInterface implementations.

Macro for boilerplate of ObjectSubclass implementations.

Derive Macros

Derive macro for defining a BoxedType::type_ function and the glib::Value traits.

Macro for deriving implementations of glib::clone::Downgrade and glib::clone::Upgrade traits and a weak type.

Derive macro for register a rust enum in the glib type system and derive the the [glib::Value] traits.

Derive macro for defining a GLib error domain and its associated ErrorDomain trait.

Derive macro for defining a SharedType::get_type function and the glib::Value traits.

Derive macro for serializing/deserializing custom structs as glib::Variants.