HashTable.replace

Inserts a new key and value into a glib.HashTable similar to HashTable.insert. The difference is that if the key already exists in the glib.HashTable, it gets replaced by the new key. If you supplied a value_destroy_func when creating the glib.HashTable, the old value is freed using that function. If you supplied a key_destroy_func when creating the glib.HashTable, the old key is freed using that function.

Starting from GLib 2.40, this function returns a boolean value to indicate whether the newly added value was already in the hash table or not.

class HashTable
bool
replace
(
void* key
,
void* value
)

Parameters

key void*

a key to insert

value void*

the value to associate with the key

Return Value

Type: bool

TRUE if the key did not exist yet