load_contents_async

Starts an asynchronous load of the this's contents.

For more details, see load_contents which is the synchronous version of this call.

When the load operation has completed, callback will be called with user data. To finish the operation, call load_contents_async.end with the AsyncResult returned by the callback.

If cancellable is not null, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error g_io_error_cancelled will be returned.

Example: Load content, async:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	if (args.length != 2) {
		print ("%s FILE\n", args[0]);
		return 0;
	}

	MainLoop loop = new MainLoop ();

	File file = File.new_for_commandline_arg (args[1]);
	file.load_contents_async.begin (null, (obj, res) => {
		try {
			uint8[] contents;
			string etag_out;

			file.load_contents_async.end (res, out contents, out etag_out);
			print ("%s", (string) contents);
		} catch (Error e) {
			print ("Error: %s\n", e.message);
		}

		loop.quit ();
	});

	loop.run ();
	return 0;
}

valac --pkg gio-2.0 GLib.File.load_contents_async.vala

Parameters:

this	input File
cancellable	optional Cancellable object, null to ignore
callback	a TaskReadyCallback to call when the request is satisfied
user_data	the data to pass to callback function