// Gst.GLib.FileUtils.cs - GFileUtils class implementation
//
// Author: Martin Baulig <martin@gnome.org>
//
// Copyright (c) 2002 Ximian, Inc
//
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// modify it under the terms of version 2 of the Lesser GNU General 
// Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
//
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// Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
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namespace Gst.GLib {

	using System;
	using System.Text;
	using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

	public class FileUtils
	{
		[DllImport ("libglib-2.0-0.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
		extern static bool g_file_get_contents (IntPtr filename, out IntPtr contents, out int length, out IntPtr error);

		public static string GetFileContents (string filename)
		{
			int length;
			IntPtr contents, error;
			IntPtr native_filename = Marshaller.StringToPtrGStrdup (filename);

			if (!g_file_get_contents (native_filename, out contents, out length, out error))
				throw new GException (error);

			Marshaller.Free (native_filename);
			return Marshaller.Utf8PtrToString (contents);
		}

		private FileUtils () {}
	}
}