Fwupd.Client.download_file

### Method

# Fwupd Clientdownload_file

since: 1.5.2

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    fwupd_client_download_file (
      FwupdClient* self,
      const gchar* url,
      GFile* file,
      FwupdClientDownloadFlags flags,
      GCancellable* cancellable,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Downloads data from a remote server. The `fwupd_client_set_user_agent()` function should be called before this method is used.

Available since: 1.5.2

#### Parameters

`url`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  The remote URL.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`file`

  Type: `GFile`

  A file.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.

`flags`

  Type: `FwupdClientDownloadFlags`

  Download flags, e.g. `FWUPD_CLIENT_DOWNLOAD_FLAG_NONE`.

`cancellable`

  Type: `GCancellable`

  Optional `GCancellable`.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The data is owned by the caller of the function.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will left initialized to `NULL` by the method if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` if the file was written.