gst::DateTime construction in Rust

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 08:45 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> > Depending on the ownership semantics, you want from_glib_none() for
> > transfer none or from_glib_full() for transfer full here.
> 
> I am guessing that one has to read the C API documents to determine whether to
> use "none" or "full" for the functions of the API in Rust. However the current
> problem is dealing with data structures directly so I am guessing use "none".

It depends on whether you can borrow the struct field directly or need
to return a new reference. That's something for which you need to
understand how the C API in question works.

One of the things where Rust moves things that are hopefully mentioned
in the documentation to the language.

> In C/C++ it was a question of using the gst_date_time_ref function, I am
> assuming this is effectively what happens when using from_glib_none?

Yes, that's correct.

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