Task.returnPointer

Sets task's result to result and completes the task. If result is not NULL, then result_destroy will be used to free result if the caller does not take ownership of it with Task.propagatePointer.

"Completes the task" means that for an ordinary asynchronous task it will either invoke the task's callback, or else queue that callback to be invoked in the proper glib.MainContext, or in the next iteration of the current glib.MainContext For a task run via Task.runInThread or Task.runInThreadSync, calling this method will save result to be returned to the caller later, but the task will not actually be completed until the GTaskThreadFunc exits.

Note that since the task may be completed before returning from Task.returnPointer, you cannot assume that result is still valid after calling this, unless you are still holding another reference on it.

class Task
void
returnPointer

Parameters

result void*

the pointer result of a task function

resultDestroy GDestroyNotify

a GDestroyNotify function.

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Since

2.36