Annotation Glossary: gedit Reference Manual

## Annotation Glossary

### A

allow-none

  NULL is OK, both for passing and for returning.

### E

element-type

  Generics and defining elements of containers and arrays.

### N

not nullable

  NULL must not be passed as the value in, out, in-out; or as a return value.

nullable

  NULL may be passed as the value in, out, in-out; or as a return value.

### S

scope async

  The callback is valid until first called.

scope call

  The callback is valid only during the call to the method.

skip

  Exposed in C code, not necessarily available in other languages.

### T

transfer container

  The caller owns the data container, but not the data inside it.

transfer floating

  Alias for transfer none, used for objects with floating refs.

transfer full

  The caller owns the data, and is responsible for free it.

transfer none

  The data is owned by the callee, which is responsible of freeing it.