## BonoboMoniker

BonoboMoniker — The base implementation of our abstract object naming space

## Synopsis

                        BonoboMoniker;
                        BonoboMonikerClass;
    BonoboMoniker *     bonobo_moniker_construct            (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             const char *prefix);
    Bonobo_Moniker      bonobo_moniker_get_parent           (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             CORBA_Environment *opt_ev);
    void                bonobo_moniker_set_parent           (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             Bonobo_Moniker parent,
                                                             CORBA_Environment *opt_ev);
    const char *        bonobo_moniker_get_name             (BonoboMoniker *moniker);
    const char *        bonobo_moniker_get_name_full        (BonoboMoniker *moniker);
    char *              bonobo_moniker_get_name_escaped     (BonoboMoniker *moniker);
    void                bonobo_moniker_set_name             (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             const char *name);
    const char *        bonobo_moniker_get_prefix           (BonoboMoniker *moniker);
    void                bonobo_moniker_set_case_sensitive   (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             gboolean sensitive);
    gboolean            bonobo_moniker_get_case_sensitive   (BonoboMoniker *moniker);

## Object Hierarchy

      GObject
       +----BonoboObject
             +----BonoboMoniker
                   +----BonoboMonikerSimple

## Description

Monikers are used to name objects, they effectively implement an object naming space. You can obtain monikers either because you created the moniker manually, or from a stringified representation of a moniker.

For more information see bonobo/doc/Monikers, relatively few people want to implement monikers, mostly they just want to use them. To do this you need the bonobo-moniker-util API.

To implement your own moniker, it is most likely that you want to use BonoboMonikerSimple, BonoboMoniker is a mostly abstract base class that in some obscure cases might provide a more powerful feature set. Most people use BonoboMonikerSimple.

## Details

### BonoboMoniker

    typedef struct _BonoboMoniker BonoboMoniker;

Implements Bonobo::Moniker

### BonoboMonikerClass

    typedef struct {
    	BonoboObjectClass      parent_class;

    	POA_Bonobo_Moniker__epv epv;

    	/* virtual methods */
    	Bonobo_Unknown (*resolve)            (BonoboMoniker               *moniker,
    					      const Bonobo_ResolveOptions *options,
    					      const CORBA_char            *requested_interface,
    					      CORBA_Environment           *ev);

    	void           (*set_internal_name)  (BonoboMoniker               *moniker,
    					      const char                  *unescaped_name);
    	const char    *(*get_internal_name)  (BonoboMoniker               *moniker);

    	gpointer        dummy;
    } BonoboMonikerClass;

BonoboMoniker's class

### bonobo_moniker_construct ()

    BonoboMoniker *     bonobo_moniker_construct            (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             const char *prefix);

Constructs a newly created bonobo moniker with the given arguments.

`moniker` : | an un-constructed moniker object.
`prefix` : | the prefix name of the moniker eg. 'file:', '!' or 'tar:' or NULL
Returns : | the constructed moniker or NULL on failure.

### bonobo_moniker_get_parent ()

    Bonobo_Moniker      bonobo_moniker_get_parent           (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             CORBA_Environment *opt_ev);

See bonobo_moniker_set_parent;

`moniker` : | the moniker
`opt_ev` : | an optional corba exception environment
Returns : | the parent of this moniker

### bonobo_moniker_set_parent ()

    void                bonobo_moniker_set_parent           (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             Bonobo_Moniker parent,
                                                             CORBA_Environment *opt_ev);

This sets the monikers parent; a moniker is really a long chain of hierarchical monikers; referenced by the most local moniker. This sets the parent pointer.

`moniker` : | the moniker
`parent` : | the parent
`opt_ev` : | an optional corba exception environment

### bonobo_moniker_get_name ()

    const char *        bonobo_moniker_get_name             (BonoboMoniker *moniker);

gets the unescaped name of the moniker less the prefix eg file:/tmp/hash#.gz returns /tmp/hash#.gz

`moniker` : | the moniker
Returns : | the string or NULL in case of failure

### bonobo_moniker_get_name_full ()

    const char *        bonobo_moniker_get_name_full        (BonoboMoniker *moniker);

gets the full unescaped name of the moniker eg. file:/tmp/hash#.gz returns file:/tmp/hash#.gz

`moniker` : | the moniker
Returns : | the string in case of failure

### bonobo_moniker_get_name_escaped ()

    char *              bonobo_moniker_get_name_escaped     (BonoboMoniker *moniker);

Get the full, escaped name of the moniker eg. file:/tmp/hash#.gz returns file:/tmp/hash#.gz

`moniker` : | a moniker
Returns : | the dynamically allocated string, or NULL in case of failure. Must release with `g_free()`.

### bonobo_moniker_set_name ()

    void                bonobo_moniker_set_name             (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             const char *name);

This functions sets the moniker name in `moniker` to be `name`.

`moniker` : | the BonoboMoniker to configure.
`name` : | new, unescaped, name for this moniker.

### bonobo_moniker_get_prefix ()

    const char *        bonobo_moniker_get_prefix           (BonoboMoniker *moniker);

`moniker` : | a moniker
Returns : | the registered prefix for this moniker or NULL if there isn't one. eg "file:", or in case of failure

### bonobo_moniker_set_case_sensitive ()

    void                bonobo_moniker_set_case_sensitive   (BonoboMoniker *moniker,
                                                             gboolean sensitive);

Sets up whether we use case sensitivity for the default equal impl.

`moniker` : | the moniker
`sensitive` : | whether to see case on equality compare

### bonobo_moniker_get_case_sensitive ()

    gboolean            bonobo_moniker_get_case_sensitive   (BonoboMoniker *moniker);

`moniker` : | the moniker
Returns : | whether we use case sensitivity for the default equal impl.

## See Also

bonobo-moniker-util BonoboMonikerSimple