gio/gioscheduler.h

/* GIO - GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Red Hat, Inc.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General
 * Public License along with this library; if not, write to the
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 *
 * Author: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
 */

#if !defined (__GIO_GIO_H_INSIDE__) && !defined (GIO_COMPILATION)
#error "Only <gio/gio.h> can be included directly."
#endif

#ifndef __G_IO_SCHEDULER_H__
#define __G_IO_SCHEDULER_H__

#include <glib.h>
#include <gio/gcancellable.h>

G_BEGIN_DECLS

/**
 * GIOSchedulerJob:
 * 
 * Opaque class for definining and scheduling IO jobs.
 **/
typedef struct _GIOSchedulerJob GIOSchedulerJob;

/**
 * GIOSchedulerJobFunc:
 * @job: a #GIOSchedulerJob.
 * @cancellable: optional #GCancellable object, %NULL to ignore.
 * @user_data: the data to pass to callback function
 * 
 * I/O Job function. 
 *
 * Note that depending on whether threads are available, the 
 * #GIOScheduler may run jobs in separate threads or in an idle 
 * in the mainloop. 
 *
 * Long-running jobs should periodically check the @cancellable
 * to see if they have been cancelled.
 *
 * Returns: %TRUE if this function should be called again to
 *    complete the job, %FALSE if the job is complete (or cancelled)
 **/
typedef gboolean (*GIOSchedulerJobFunc) (GIOSchedulerJob *job,
		   		         GCancellable    *cancellable,
				         gpointer         user_data);

void     g_io_scheduler_push_job                   (GIOSchedulerJobFunc  job_func,
						    gpointer             user_data,
						    GDestroyNotify       notify,
						    gint                 io_priority,
						    GCancellable        *cancellable);
void     g_io_scheduler_cancel_all_jobs            (void);
gboolean g_io_scheduler_job_send_to_mainloop       (GIOSchedulerJob     *job,
						    GSourceFunc          func,
						    gpointer             user_data,
						    GDestroyNotify       notify);
void     g_io_scheduler_job_send_to_mainloop_async (GIOSchedulerJob     *job,
						    GSourceFunc          func,
						    gpointer             user_data,
						    GDestroyNotify       notify);

G_END_DECLS

#endif /* __G_IO_SCHEDULER_H__ */