Vips.RefString

Fields

Name	Type	Access	Description
area	Vips.Area	r/w

Methods

class	new (str)
	get ()

Details

class Vips.RefString

classmethod new(str)

Parameters:

str (str) – string to store

Returns:

the new [struct`RefString`], or NULL on error.

Return type:

Vips.RefString or None

Create a new refstring. These are reference-counted immutable strings, used to store string data in vips image metadata.

Strings must be valid utf-8; use blob for binary data.

::: seealso [method`Area`.unref].

get()

Returns:

The C string held by self.

length:

return length here, optionally

Return type:

(str, length: int)

Get a pointer to the private string inside a refstr. Handy for language bindings.

::: seealso [func`value_get_ref_string`].