[gst-devel] get element type name

[Michael Smith]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Wes Miller <wmiller at sdr.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Let's say I have a udpsrc element named "my_src" created thus:
>
>         recvSrc = gst_element_factory_make( "udpsrc" ,      "my_src"  ));
>
> If I use this construct, I get "GstUdpSrc":
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>         g_print( "%s\n", g_type_name( G_OBJECT_TYPE( recvSrc )) );
>
> What U'd like to get, instead, is "udpsrc".  Is there a function to do that?
>
> And what are the proper things to call these two items.

You have three items, actually:
 "my_src" - this is your element name
 "udpsrc" - this is the element factory name
 "GstUdpSrc" - this the element class name

gst_plugin_feature_get_name() to get the name from the element
factory. You can get the element factory from the element via its
class object. Something like this might work:
gst_plugin_feature_get_name(GST_ELEMENT_GET_CLASS(recvSrc)->elementFactory)
- though it probably needs some extra casts in there too.


Mike