FwupdPlugin.bytes_get_contents
Description: Reference for FwupdPlugin.bytes_get_contents

### Function

# FwupdPluginbytes_get_contents

#### Declaration [src]

    GBytes*
    fu_bytes_get_contents (
      const gchar* filename,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Reads a blob of data from a file.

Available since: | 1.8.2

#### Parameters

`filename` | `const gchar*`
| A filename.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.
| The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
`error` | `GError **`
| The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

#### Return value

Returns: | `GBytes`
| A `GBytes`, or `NULL` for failure.
| The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.