Class

Gst-1.0GstStructure

A Gst.Structure is a collection of key/value pairs. The keys are expressed as GQuarks and the values can be of any GType.

In addition to the key/value pairs, a Gst.Structure also has a name. The name starts with a letter and can be filled by letters, numbers and any of "/-_.:".

Gst.Structure is used by various GStreamer subsystems to store information in a flexible and extensible way. A Gst.Structure does not have a refcount because it usually is part of a higher level object such as Gst.Caps, Gst.Message, Gst.Event, Gst.Query. It provides a means to enforce mutability using the refcount of the parent with the gst_structure_set_parent_refcount() method.

A Gst.Structure can be created with gst_structure_new_empty() or gst_structure_new(), which both take a name and an optional set of key/value pairs along with the types of the values.

Field values can be changed with gst_structure_set_value() or gst_structure_set().

Field values can be retrieved with gst_structure_get_value() or the more convenient gst_structure_get_*() functions.

Fields can be removed with gst_structure_remove_field() or gst_structure_remove_fields().

Strings in structures must be ASCII or UTF-8 encoded. Other encodings are not allowed. Strings may be null however.

GstStructure serialization format serialize the GstStructure name, keys/GType/values in a comma separated list with the structure name as first field without value followed by separated key/value pairs in the form key=value, for example:

a-structure, key=value

The values type will be inferred if not explicitly specified with the (GTypeName)value syntax, for example the following struct will have one field called 'is-string' which has the string 'true' as a value:

a-struct, field-is-string=(string)true, field-is-boolean=true

Note: without specifying (string), field-is-string` type would have been inferred as boolean.

Note: we specified (string) as a type even if gchararray is the actual GType name as for convenience some well known types have been aliased or abbreviated.

To avoid specifying the type, you can give some hints to the "type system". For example to specify a value as a double, you should add a decimal (ie. 1 is an int while 1.0 is a double).

Note: when a structure is serialized with gst_structure_to_string, all values are explicitly typed.

Some types have special delimiters:

  • GstValueArray are inside "less and greater than" (< and >). For example `a-structure, array=<1, 2, 3>
  • Ranges are inside brackets ([ and ]). For example a-structure, range=[1, 6, 2] 1 being the min value, 6 the maximum and 2 the step. To specify a #GST_TYPE_INT64_RANGE you need to explicitly specify it like: a-structure, a-int64-range=(gint64) [1, 5]
  • GstValueList are inside curly brackets ({ and }). For example a-structure, list={1, 2, 3}
  • GStrv are inside "less and greater than" (< and >) and each string is double-quoted. For example a-structure, strv=(GStrv)<"foo", "bar">. Since 1.26.0.

Structures are delimited either by a null character \0 or a semicolon ; the latter allowing to store multiple structures in the same string (see {@link Gst.Caps}).

Quotes are used as "default" delimiters and can be used around any types that don't use other delimiters (for example a-struct, i=(int)"1"). They are use to allow adding spaces or special characters (such as delimiters, semicolumns, etc..) inside strings and you can use backslashes \ to escape characters inside them, for example:

a-struct, special="\"{[(;)]}\" can be used inside quotes"

They also allow for nested structure, such as:

a-struct, nested=(GstStructure)"nested-struct, nested=true"

Since 1.20, nested structures and caps can be specified using brackets ([ and ]), for example:

a-struct, nested=[nested-struct, nested=true]

note: gst_structure_to_string() won't use that syntax for backward compatibility reason, gst_structure_serialize_full() has been added for that purpose. @gir-type Struct

Index

Constructors

Properties

type: GType
$gtype: GType<Structure>

Methods

  • Calls the provided function once for each field in the Gst.Structure. In contrast to gst_structure_foreach(), the function may modify the fields. In contrast to gst_structure_map_in_place(), the field is removed from the structure if false is returned from the function. The structure must be mutable.

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Calls the provided function once for each field in the Gst.Structure. In contrast to gst_structure_foreach_id_str(), the function may modify the fields. In contrast to gst_structure_map_in_place_id_str(), the field is removed from the structure if false is returned from the function. The structure must be mutable.

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Fixate all values in structure using gst_value_fixate(). structure will be modified in-place and should be writable.

    Returns void

  • Fixates a Gst.Structure by changing the given field with its fixated value.

    Parameters

    • field_name: string

      a field in structure

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure field could be fixated

  • Fixates a Gst.Structure by changing the given field_name field to the given target boolean if that field is not fixed yet.

    Parameters

    • field_name: string

      a field in structure

    • target: boolean

      the target value of the fixation

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure could be fixated

  • Fixates a Gst.Structure by changing the given field to the nearest double to target that is a subset of the existing field.

    Parameters

    • field_name: string

      a field in structure

    • target: number

      the target value of the fixation

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure could be fixated

  • Fixates a Gst.Structure by changing the given field to the nearest fraction to target_numerator/target_denominator that is a subset of the existing field.

    Parameters

    • field_name: string

      a field in structure

    • target_numerator: number

      The numerator of the target value of the fixation

    • target_denominator: number

      The denominator of the target value of the fixation

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure could be fixated

  • Fixates a Gst.Structure by changing the given field to the nearest integer to target that is a subset of the existing field.

    Parameters

    • field_name: string

      a field in structure

    • target: number

      the target value of the fixation

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure could be fixated

  • Fixates a Gst.Structure by changing the given field_name field to the given target string if that field is not fixed yet.

    Parameters

    • field_name: string

      a field in structure

    • target: string

      the target value of the fixation

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure could be fixated

  • Calls the provided function once for each field in the Gst.Structure. The function must not modify the fields. Also see gst_structure_map_in_place() and gst_structure_filter_and_map_in_place().

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if the supplied function returns true For each of the fields, false otherwise.

  • Calls the provided function once for each field in the Gst.Structure. The function must not modify the fields. Also see gst_structure_map_in_place_id_str() and gst_structure_filter_and_map_in_place_id_str().

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if the supplied function returns true For each of the fields, false otherwise.

  • This is useful in language bindings where unknown GObject.Value types are not supported. This function will convert the GST_TYPE_ARRAY into a newly allocated GObject.ValueArray and return it through array. Be aware that this is slower then getting the GObject.Value directly.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, GObject.ValueArray]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a GST_TYPE_ARRAY, this function returns false.

  • Sets the boolean pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, boolean]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a boolean, this function returns false.

  • Sets the clock time pointed to by value corresponding to the clock time of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a Gst.ClockTime, this function returns false.

  • Sets the date pointed to by value corresponding to the date of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    On success value will point to a newly-allocated copy of the date which should be freed with g_date_free() when no longer needed (note: this is inconsistent with e.g. gst_structure_get_string() which doesn't return a copy of the string).

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, GLib.Date]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a data, this function returns false.

  • Sets the datetime pointed to by value corresponding to the datetime of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    On success value will point to a reference of the datetime which should be unreffed with gst_date_time_unref() when no longer needed (note: this is inconsistent with e.g. gst_structure_get_string() which doesn't return a copy of the string).

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, Gst.DateTime]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a data, this function returns false.

  • Sets the double pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a double, this function returns false.

  • Sets the int pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists, has the correct type and that the enumtype is correct.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    • enumtype: GType

      the enum type of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain an enum of the given type, this function returns false.

  • Finds the field with the given name, and returns the type of the value it contains. If the field is not found, G_TYPE_INVALID is returned.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of the field

    Returns GType

    the GObject.Value of the field

  • Sets the unsigned int pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists, has the correct type and that the flagstype is correct.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    • flags_type: GType

      the flags type of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain flags or did not contain flags of the given type, this function returns false.

  • Read the GstFlagSet flags and mask out of the structure into the provided pointers.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number, number]

    true if the values could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a GstFlagSet, this function returns false.

  • Sets the integers pointed to by value_numerator and value_denominator corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number, number]

    true if the values could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a GstFraction, this function returns false.

  • Sets the int pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain an int, this function returns false.

  • Sets the gint64 pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a gint64, this function returns false.

  • This is useful in language bindings where unknown GObject.Value types are not supported. This function will convert the GST_TYPE_LIST into a newly allocated GValueArray and return it through array. Be aware that this is slower then getting the GObject.Value directly.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, GObject.ValueArray]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a GST_TYPE_LIST, this function returns false.

  • Get the name of structure as a string.

    Returns string

    the name of the structure.

  • Get the name of structure as a GQuark.

    Returns number

    the quark representing the name of the structure.

  • Finds the field corresponding to fieldname, and returns the string contained in the field's value. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    The string should not be modified, and remains valid until the next call to a gst_structure_*() function with the given structure.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns string

    a pointer to the string or null when the field did not exist or did not contain a string.

  • Sets the uint pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a uint, this function returns false.

  • Sets the guint64 pointed to by value corresponding to the value of the given field. Caller is responsible for making sure the field exists and has the correct type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns [boolean, number]

    true if the value could be set correctly. If there was no field with fieldname or the existing field did not contain a guint64, this function returns false.

  • Check if structure contains a field named fieldname.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure contains a field with the given name

  • Check if structure contains a field named fieldname and with GType type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of a field

    • type: GType

      the type of a value

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure contains a field with the given name and type

  • Checks if the structure has the given name

    Parameters

    • name: string

      structure name to check for

    Returns boolean

    true if name matches the name of the structure.

  • Check if structure contains a field named field.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure contains a field with the given name

  • Check if structure contains a field named field and with GType type.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure contains a field with the given name and type

  • Sets the field with the given GQuark field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed.

    Parameters

    • field: number

      a GLib.Quark representing a field

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Finds the field with the given name, and returns the type of the value it contains. If the field is not found, G_TYPE_INVALID is returned.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: IdStr

      the name of the field

    Returns GType

    the GObject.Value of the field

  • Check if structure contains a field named fieldname.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: IdStr

      the name of a field

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure contains a field with the given name

  • Check if structure contains a field named fieldname and with GType type.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: IdStr

      the name of a field

    • type: GType

      the type of a value

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure contains a field with the given name and type

  • Get the name (as a GstIdStr) of the given field number, counting from 0 onwards.

    Parameters

    • index: number

      the index to get the name of

    Returns IdStr

    the name of the given field number

  • Removes the field with the given name. If the field with the given name does not exist, the structure is unchanged.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: IdStr

      the name of the field to remove

    Returns void

  • Sets the field with the given name field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: IdStr

      the name of the field to set

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Sets the field with the given GstIdStr field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: IdStr

      the name of the field to set

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Sets the field with the given GQuark field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed.

    Parameters

    • field: number

      a GLib.Quark representing a field

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Checks if subset is a subset of superset, i.e. has the same structure name and for all fields that are existing in superset, subset has a value that is a subset of the value in superset.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if subset is a subset of superset

  • Checks if the structure is writable. true if parent is not set or its refcount is 1, false otherwise.

    Returns boolean

    true if the structure is writable.

  • Calls the provided function once for each field in the Gst.Structure. In contrast to gst_structure_foreach(), the function may modify but not delete the fields. The structure must be mutable.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if the supplied function returns true For each of the fields, false otherwise.

  • Calls the provided function once for each field in the Gst.Structure. In contrast to gst_structure_foreach_id_str(), the function may modify but not delete the fields. The structure must be mutable.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

    true if the supplied function returns true For each of the fields, false otherwise.

  • Get the number of fields in the structure.

    Returns number

    the number of fields in the structure

  • Get the name of the given field number, counting from 0 onwards.

    Parameters

    • index: number

      the index to get the name of

    Returns string

    the name of the given field number

  • Removes the field with the given name. If the field with the given name does not exist, the structure is unchanged.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of the field to remove

    Returns void

  • Converts structure to a human-readable string representation.

    This version of the caps serialization function introduces support for nested structures and caps but the resulting strings won't be parsable with GStreamer prior to 1.20 unless #GST_SERIALIZE_FLAG_BACKWARD_COMPAT is passed as flag.

    Gst.SerializeFlags.STRICT flags is not allowed because it would make this function nullable which is an API break for bindings. Use gst_structure_serialize_full() instead.

    Free-function: g_free

    Parameters

    Returns string

    a pointer to string allocated by g_malloc(). g_free() after usage.

  • This is useful in language bindings where unknown GValue types are not supported. This function will convert a array to GST_TYPE_ARRAY and set the field specified by fieldname. Be aware that this is slower then using GST_TYPE_ARRAY in a GObject.Value directly.

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • This is useful in language bindings where unknown GValue types are not supported. This function will convert a array to GST_TYPE_LIST and set the field specified by fieldname. Be aware that this is slower then using GST_TYPE_LIST in a GObject.Value directly.

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Sets the name of the structure to the given name. The string provided is copied before being used. It must not be empty, start with a letter and can be followed by letters, numbers and any of "/-_.:".

    Parameters

    • name: string

      the new name of the structure

    Returns void

  • Sets the name of the structure to the given name. The string provided is copied before being used. It must not be empty, start with a letter and can be followed by letters, numbers and any of "/-_.:".

    Parameters

    • name: IdStr

      the new name of the structure

    Returns void

  • Sets the name of the structure to the given name. The string provided is copied before being used. It must not be empty, start with a letter and can be followed by letters, numbers and any of "/-_.:".

    name needs to be valid for the remaining lifetime of the process, e.g. has to be a static string.

    Parameters

    • name: string

      the new name of the structure

    Returns void

  • Sets the parent_refcount field of Gst.Structure. This field is used to determine whether a structure is mutable or not. This function should only be called by code implementing parent objects of Gst.Structure, as described in the MT Refcounting section of the design documents.

    Parameters

    • refcount: number

      a pointer to the parent's refcount

    Returns boolean

    true if the parent refcount could be set.

  • Sets the field with the given name field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of the field to set

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Sets the field with the given name field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed.

    fieldname needs to be valid for the remaining lifetime of the process, e.g. has to be a static string.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of the field to set

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Sets the field with the given name field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed. The function will take ownership of value.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of the field to set

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Sets the field with the given name field to value. If the field does not exist, it is created. If the field exists, the previous value is replaced and freed. The function will take ownership of value.

    fieldname needs to be valid for the remaining lifetime of the process, e.g. has to be a static string.

    Parameters

    • fieldname: string

      the name of the field to set

    • value: any

      the new value of the field

    Returns void

  • Converts structure to a human-readable string representation.

    For debugging purposes its easier to do something like this:

    language="C" --> GST_LOG ("structure is %" GST_PTR_FORMAT, structure);
    

    This prints the structure in human readable form.

    This function will lead to unexpected results when there are nested Gst.Caps / Gst.Structure deeper than one level, you should user gst_structure_serialize_full() instead for those cases.

    Free-function: g_free

    Returns string

    a pointer to string allocated by g_malloc(). g_free() after usage.

  • Atomically modifies a pointer to point to a new structure. The Gst.Structure oldstr_ptr is pointing to is freed and newstr is taken ownership over.

    Either newstr and the value pointed to by oldstr_ptr may be null.

    It is a programming error if both newstr and the value pointed to by oldstr_ptr refer to the same, non-null structure.

    Parameters

    Returns [boolean, Structure]