Class (GI Struct)

GLib-2.0GLibHashTableAbstract

The GLib.HashTable struct is an opaque data structure to represent a Hash Table. It should only be accessed via the following functions.

Type Parameters

  • A = string
  • B = any

Indexable

  • [key: string]: B
Index

Constructors

Properties

$gtype: GType<GLib.HashTable<string, any>>

Methods

  • This is a convenience function for using a GLib.HashTable as a set. It is equivalent to calling g_hash_table_replace() with key as both the key and the value.

    In particular, this means that if key already exists in the hash table, then the old copy of key in the hash table is freed and key replaces it in the table.

    When a hash table only ever contains keys that have themselves as the corresponding value it is able to be stored more efficiently. See the discussion in the section description.

    Starting from GLib 2.40, this function returns a boolean value to indicate whether the newly added value was already in the hash table or not.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

  • Destroys all keys and values in the GLib.HashTable and decrements its reference count by 1. If keys and/or values are dynamically allocated, you should either free them first or create the GLib.HashTable with destroy notifiers using g_hash_table_new_full(). In the latter case the destroy functions you supplied will be called on all keys and values during the destruction phase.

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Calls the given function for key/value pairs in the GLib.HashTable until predicate returns true. The function is passed the key and value of each pair, and the given user_data parameter. The hash table may not be modified while iterating over it (you can't add/remove items).

    Note, that hash tables are really only optimized for forward lookups, i.e. g_hash_table_lookup(). So code that frequently issues g_hash_table_find() or g_hash_table_foreach() (e.g. in the order of once per every entry in a hash table) should probably be reworked to use additional or different data structures for reverse lookups (keep in mind that an O(n) find/foreach operation issued for all n values in a hash table ends up needing O(n*n) operations).

    Parameters

    Returns any

  • Calls the given function for each of the key/value pairs in the GLib.HashTable. The function is passed the key and value of each pair, and the given user_data parameter. The hash table may not be modified while iterating over it (you can't add/remove items). To remove all items matching a predicate, use g_hash_table_foreach_remove().

    The order in which g_hash_table_foreach() iterates over the keys/values in the hash table is not defined.

    See g_hash_table_find() for performance caveats for linear order searches in contrast to g_hash_table_lookup().

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Calls the given function for each key/value pair in the GLib.HashTable. If the function returns true, then the key/value pair is removed from the GLib.HashTable. If you supplied key or value destroy functions when creating the GLib.HashTable, they are used to free the memory allocated for the removed keys and values.

    See GLib.HashTableIter for an alternative way to loop over the key/value pairs in the hash table.

    Parameters

    Returns number

  • Inserts a new key and value into a GLib.HashTable.

    If the key already exists in the GLib.HashTable its current value is replaced with the new value. If you supplied a value_destroy_func when creating the GLib.HashTable, the old value is freed using that function. If you supplied a key_destroy_func when creating the GLib.HashTable, the passed key is freed using that function.

    Starting from GLib 2.40, this function returns a boolean value to indicate whether the newly added value was already in the hash table or not.

    Parameters

    • hash_table: GLib.HashTable<any, any> | { [key: string]: any }
    • Optionalkey: any

      a key to insert

    • Optionalvalue: any

      the value to associate with the key

    Returns boolean

  • Looks up a key in a GLib.HashTable. Note that this function cannot distinguish between a key that is not present and one which is present and has the value null. If you need this distinction, use g_hash_table_lookup_extended().

    Parameters

    Returns any

  • Looks up a key in the GLib.HashTable, returning the original key and the associated value and a gboolean which is true if the key was found. This is useful if you need to free the memory allocated for the original key, for example before calling g_hash_table_remove().

    You can actually pass null for lookup_key to test whether the null key exists, provided the hash and equal functions of hash_table are null-safe.

    Parameters

    Returns [boolean, any, any]

  • Creates a new GLib.HashTable like g_hash_table_new_full() with a reference count of 1.

    It inherits the hash function, the key equal function, the key destroy function, as well as the value destroy function, from other_hash_table.

    The returned hash table will be empty; it will not contain the keys or values from other_hash_table.

    Parameters

    Returns GLib.HashTable<any, any>

  • Removes a key and its associated value from a GLib.HashTable.

    If the GLib.HashTable was created using g_hash_table_new_full(), the key and value are freed using the supplied destroy functions, otherwise you have to make sure that any dynamically allocated values are freed yourself.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

  • Removes all keys and their associated values from a GLib.HashTable.

    If the GLib.HashTable was created using g_hash_table_new_full(), the keys and values are freed using the supplied destroy functions, otherwise you have to make sure that any dynamically allocated values are freed yourself.

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Inserts a new key and value into a GLib.HashTable similar to g_hash_table_insert(). The difference is that if the key already exists in the GLib.HashTable, it gets replaced by the new key. If you supplied a value_destroy_func when creating the GLib.HashTable, the old value is freed using that function. If you supplied a key_destroy_func when creating the GLib.HashTable, the old key is freed using that function.

    Starting from GLib 2.40, this function returns a boolean value to indicate whether the newly added value was already in the hash table or not.

    Parameters

    • hash_table: GLib.HashTable<any, any> | { [key: string]: any }
    • Optionalkey: any

      a key to insert

    • Optionalvalue: any

      the value to associate with the key

    Returns boolean

  • Looks up a key in the GLib.HashTable, stealing the original key and the associated value and returning true if the key was found. If the key was not found, false is returned.

    If found, the stolen key and value are removed from the hash table without calling the key and value destroy functions, and ownership is transferred to the caller of this method, as with g_hash_table_steal(). That is the case regardless whether stolen_key or stolen_value output parameters are requested.

    You can pass null for lookup_key, provided the hash and equal functions of hash_table are null-safe.

    The dictionary implementation optimizes for having all values identical to their keys, for example by using g_hash_table_add(). Before 2.82, when stealing both the key and the value from such a dictionary, the value was null. Since 2.82, the returned value and key will be the same.

    Parameters

    Returns [boolean, any, any]

  • Atomically decrements the reference count of hash_table by one. If the reference count drops to 0, all keys and values will be destroyed, and all memory allocated by the hash table is released. This function is MT-safe and may be called from any thread.

    Parameters

    Returns void