GUsb.Context.find_by_platform_id

### Method

# GUsb Contextfind_by_platform_id

#### Declaration

    GUsbDevice*
    g_usb_context_find_by_platform_id (
      GUsbContext* self,
      const gchar* platform_id,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description

Finds a device based on its platform id value.

Available since: | 0.2.4

#### Parameters

`platform_id` | `const gchar*`
| A platform id, e.g. “usb:00:03:03:02”
| 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: | `GUsbDevice`
| A new `GUsbDevice`, or `NULL` if not found.
| The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.