Annotation Glossary

A

allow-none

NULL is OK, both for passing and for returning.

N

nullable

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

S

scope call

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

T

transfer container

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

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.