[gst-devel] finalize in a plugin

[Nie Jun]

    A plugin is an instant of a gstclass, i.e. gstobject. The finalize
function is called when the plugin is destructed, not class is destructed.
If you want to free the pointers or other resources of your gstplug-in, you
can do it in state_change function. It you want to release resouces of an
object, not gstplug-in, you have to write the code in finalize function.

2008/11/28 Zoltan Seress <gatesofdarkness at gmail.com>

>
> Hi Dev,
>
> I know that this is not really a gstreamer specific question, rather
> GObject, so I read some GObject descriptions about finalize, but I would
> like to ask it nevertheless.
> How many times is the finalize function called during the life of a plugin?
> It is called only once at the destruction of the Class as the pair of the
> class_init? Is it a problem if I have some pointers as members of my
> element, but I don't overwrite the finalize function? Or is it called at the
> destruction of an element too?
> Thanks!
>
> Zoltan Seress
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