Virtual Method

CamelNetworkServiceconnect_sync

since: 3.2

Declaration [src]

GIOStream*
connect_sync (
  CamelNetworkService* service,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description [src]

Attempts to establish a network connection to the server described by service, using the preferred CamelNetworkSettings:security-method to secure the connection. If a connection cannot be established, or the connection attempt is cancelled, the function sets error and returns NULL.

Available since: 3.2

Parameters

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 virtual function 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: GIOStream

A GIOStream, or NULL on error.

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