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 */
 
// generated automatically - do not change
// find conversion definition on APILookup.txt
// implement new conversion functionalities on the wrap.utils pakage

/*
 * Conversion parameters:
 * inFile  = GIcon.html
 * outPack = gio
 * outFile = IconIF
 * strct   = GIcon
 * realStrct=
 * ctorStrct=
 * clss    = IconT
 * interf  = IconIF
 * class Code: No
 * interface Code: No
 * template for:
 * extend  = 
 * implements:
 * prefixes:
 * 	- g_icon_
 * omit structs:
 * omit prefixes:
 * omit code:
 * 	- g_icon_new_for_string
 * omit signals:
 * imports:
 * 	- glib.Str
 * 	- glib.ErrorG
 * 	- glib.GException
 * 	- glib.Variant
 * 	- gio.IconIF
 * 	- gio.Icon
 * structWrap:
 * 	- GIcon* -> IconIF
 * 	- GVariant* -> Variant
 * module aliases:
 * local aliases:
 * overrides:
 * 	- toString
 */

module gio.IconIF;

public  import gtkc.giotypes;

private import gtkc.gio;
private import glib.ConstructionException;
private import gobject.ObjectG;


private import glib.Str;
private import glib.ErrorG;
private import glib.GException;
private import glib.Variant;
private import gio.IconIF;
private import gio.Icon;




/**
 * GIcon is a very minimal interface for icons. It provides functions
 * for checking the equality of two icons, hashing of icons and
 * serializing an icon to and from strings.
 *
 * GIcon does not provide the actual pixmap for the icon as this is out
 * of GIO's scope, however implementations of GIcon may contain the name
 * of an icon (see GThemedIcon), or the path to an icon (see GLoadableIcon).
 *
 * To obtain a hash of a GIcon, see g_icon_hash().
 *
 * To check if two GIcons are equal, see g_icon_equal().
 *
 * For serializing a GIcon, use g_icon_serialize() and
 * g_icon_deserialize().
 *
 * If you want to consume GIcon (for example, in a toolkit) you must
 * be prepared to handle at least the three following cases:
 * GLoadableIcon, GThemedIcon and GEmblemedIcon. It may also make
 * sense to have fast-paths for other cases (like handling GdkPixbuf
 * directly, for example) but all compliant GIcon implementations
 * outside of GIO must implement GLoadableIcon.
 *
 * If your application or library provides one or more GIcon
 * implementations you need to ensure that your new implementation also
 * implements GLoadableIcon. Additionally, you must provide an
 * implementation of g_icon_serialize() that gives a result that is
 * understood by g_icon_deserialize(), yielding one of the built-in icon
 * types.
 */
public interface IconIF
{
	
	
	public GIcon* getIconTStruct();
	
	/** the main Gtk struct as a void* */
	protected void* getStruct();
	
	
	/**
	 */
	
	/**
	 * Gets a hash for an icon.
	 * Virtual: hash
	 * Params:
	 * icon = gconstpointer to an icon object.
	 * Returns: a guint containing a hash for the icon, suitable for use in a GHashTable or similar data structure.
	 */
	public static uint hash(void* icon);
	
	/**
	 * Checks if two icons are equal.
	 * Params:
	 * icon2 = pointer to the second GIcon. [allow-none]
	 * Returns: TRUE if icon1 is equal to icon2. FALSE otherwise.
	 */
	public int equal(IconIF icon2);
	
	/**
	 * Generates a textual representation of icon that can be used for
	 * serialization such as when passing icon to a different process or
	 * saving it to persistent storage. Use g_icon_new_for_string() to
	 * get icon back from the returned string.
	 * The encoding of the returned string is proprietary to GIcon except
	 * in the following two cases
	 *  If icon is a GFileIcon, the returned string is a native path
	 *  (such as /path/to/my icon.png) without escaping
	 *  if the GFile for icon is a native file. If the file is not
	 *  native, the returned string is the result of g_file_get_uri()
	 *  (such as sftp://path/to/my%20icon.png).
	 *  If icon is a GThemedIcon with exactly one name, the encoding is
	 *  simply the name (such as network-server).
	 * Virtual: to_tokens
	 * Since 2.20
	 * Returns: An allocated NUL-terminated UTF8 string or NULL if icon can't be serialized. Use g_free() to free.
	 */
	public string toString();
	
	/**
	 * Serializes a GIcon into a GVariant. An equivalent GIcon can be retrieved
	 * back by calling g_icon_deserialize() on the returned value.
	 * As serialization will avoid using raw icon data when possible, it only
	 * makes sense to transfer the GVariant between processes on the same machine,
	 * (as opposed to over the network), and within the same file system namespace.
	 * Since 2.38
	 * Returns: a GVariant, or NULL when serialization fails. [transfer full]
	 */
	public Variant serialize();
	
	/**
	 * Deserializes a GIcon previously serialized using g_icon_serialize().
	 * Since 2.38
	 * Params:
	 * value = a GVariant created with g_icon_serialize()
	 * Returns: a GIcon, or NULL when deserialization fails. [transfer full]
	 */
	public static IconIF deserialize(Variant value);
}