Method

EDataBookBookBackendSyncget_contact

since: 3.34

Declaration [src]

EContact*
e_book_backend_sync_get_contact (
  EBookBackendSync* backend,
  const gchar* uid,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Obtains an EContact for uid.

The returned EContact is referenced for thread-safety and must be unreferenced with g_object_unref() when finished with it.

If an error occurs, the function will set error and return NULL.

Available since: 3.34

Parameters

uid

Type: const gchar*

A contact ID.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
cancellable

Type: GCancellable

Optional GCancellable object, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the method.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will be left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: EContact

An EContact, or NULL on error.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.