manual: add minimal tag reading example

Should probably put that into tests/examples and figure out how to
get it included automatically, but can't be bothered right now.

1 files changed, 107 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/manual/advanced-metadata.xml b/docs/manual/advanced-metadata.xml
index 31aecb40b..66e9a2da9 100644
--- a/docs/manual/advanced-metadata.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/advanced-metadata.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,113 @@
       merging mode, so that a new title (which came in later) has a
       preference over the old one for display.
     </para>
+    <para>
+      The following example will extract tags from a file and print them:
+    </para>
+    <programlisting>
+/* compile with:
+ * gcc -o tags tags.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-0.10` */
+#include &lt;gst/gst.h&gt;
+
+static void
+print_one_tag (const GstTagList * list, const gchar * tag, gpointer user_data)
+{
+  int i, num;
+
+  num = gst_tag_list_get_tag_size (list, tag);
+  for (i = 0; i &lt; num; ++i) {
+    const GValue *val;
+
+    /* Note: when looking for specific tags, use the g_tag_list_get_xyz() API,
+     * we only use the GValue approach here because it is more generic */
+    val = gst_tag_list_get_value_index (list, tag, i);
+    if (G_VALUE_HOLDS_STRING (val)) {
+      g_print ("\t%20s : %s\n", tag, g_value_get_string (val));
+    } else if (G_VALUE_HOLDS_UINT (val)) {
+      g_print ("\t%20s : %u\n", tag, g_value_get_uint (val));
+    } else if (G_VALUE_HOLDS_DOUBLE (val)) {
+      g_print ("\t%20s : %g\n", tag, g_value_get_double (val));
+    } else if (G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (val)) {
+      g_print ("\t%20s : %s\n", tag,
+          (g_value_get_boolean (val)) ? "true" : "false");
+    } else if (GST_VALUE_HOLDS_BUFFER (val)) {
+      g_print ("\t%20s : buffer of size %u\n", tag,
+          GST_BUFFER_SIZE (gst_value_get_buffer (val)));
+    } else if (GST_VALUE_HOLDS_DATE (val)) {
+      g_print ("\t%20s : date (year=%u,...)\n", tag,
+          g_date_get_year (gst_value_get_date (val)));
+    } else {
+      g_print ("\t%20s : tag of type '%s'\n", tag, G_VALUE_TYPE_NAME (val));
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+static void
+on_new_pad (GstElement * dec, GstPad * pad, GstElement * fakesink)
+{
+  GstPad *sinkpad;
+
+  sinkpad = gst_element_get_static_pad (fakesink, "sink");
+  if (!gst_pad_is_linked (sinkpad)) {
+    if (gst_pad_link (pad, sinkpad) != GST_PAD_LINK_OK)
+      g_error ("Failed to link pads!");
+  }
+  gst_object_unref (sinkpad);
+}
+
+int
+main (int argc, char ** argv)
+{
+  GstElement *pipe, *dec, *sink;
+  GstMessage *msg;
+
+  gst_init (&amp;argc, &amp;argv);
+
+  if (argc &lt; 2 || !gst_uri_is_valid (argv[1]))
+    g_error ("Usage: %s file:///path/to/file", argv[0]);
+
+  pipe = gst_pipeline_new ("pipeline");
+
+  dec = gst_element_factory_make ("uridecodebin", NULL);
+  g_object_set (dec, "uri", argv[1], NULL);
+  gst_bin_add (GST_BIN (pipe), dec);
+
+  sink = gst_element_factory_make ("fakesink", NULL);
+  gst_bin_add (GST_BIN (pipe), sink);
+
+  g_signal_connect (dec, "pad-added", G_CALLBACK (on_new_pad), sink);
+
+  gst_element_set_state (pipe, GST_STATE_PAUSED);
+
+  while (TRUE) {
+    GstTagList *tags = NULL;
+
+    msg = gst_bus_timed_pop_filtered (GST_ELEMENT_BUS (pipe),
+        GST_CLOCK_TIME_NONE,
+        GST_MESSAGE_ASYNC_DONE | GST_MESSAGE_TAG | GST_MESSAGE_ERROR);
+
+    if (GST_MESSAGE_TYPE (msg) != GST_MESSAGE_TAG) /* error or async_done */
+      break;
+
+    gst_message_parse_tag (msg, &amp;tags);
+
+    g_print ("Got tags from element %s:\n", GST_OBJECT_NAME (msg-&gt;src));
+    gst_tag_list_foreach (tags, print_one_tag, NULL);
+    g_print ("\n");
+    gst_tag_list_free (tags);
+
+    gst_message_unref (msg);
+  };
+
+  if (GST_MESSAGE_TYPE (msg) == GST_MESSAGE_ERROR)
+    g_error ("Got error");
+
+  gst_message_unref (msg);
+  gst_element_set_state (pipe, GST_STATE_NULL);
+  gst_object_unref (pipe);
+  return 0;
+}
+    </programlisting>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 id="section-tags-write">