MONGOC_GRIDFS_...NE_BY_FILENAME(3)

💅 mongoc_gridfs_find_one_by_filename(3) 💅

okay so this is the libmongoc manual page for grabbing exactly one GridFS file by filename, and yes bestie we're gonna get you through it ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

          mongoc_gridfs_file_t *
          mongoc_gridfs_find_one_by_filename (mongoc_gridfs_t *gridfs,
                                              const char *filename,
                                              bson_error_t *error);

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• gridfs — a mongoc_gridfs_t. That's your GridFS handle, periodt.
• filename — a UTF-8 encoded string containing the filename. UTF-8, bestie, no cap.
• error — an optional location for a bson_error_t, or NULL. Optional means you can pass NULL if you're feeling brave 🙈.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this function finds the first file matching the filename specified. First one, not all of them — if you wanted the whole lineup that's a different vibe.

If there is an error, NULL is returned and error is filled out. If there is no error but no matching file is found, NULL is returned and the error code and domain are 0. Yes, same NULL energy, different meaning — check that error situation, iykyk.

This function is considered a retryable read operation. Upon a transient error (a network error, errors due to replica set failover, etc.) the operation is safely retried once. If retryreads is false in the URI (see mongoc_uri_t) the retry behavior does not apply. That's the whole tea ☕.

💀 ERRORS 💀

Errors are propagated via the error parameter. That's it, that's the section 🫶.

🌈 RETURNS 🌈

Returns a newly allocated mongoc_gridfs_file_t if successful. You must free the resulting file with mongoc_gridfs_file_destroy() when no longer in use.

bestie please actually free it with mongoc_gridfs_file_destroy() — newly allocated means somebody's gotta clean up, and that somebody is you 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc

©️ COPYRIGHT ©️

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.

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Signed off with love from the libmongoc girlies 💖 — version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 202 (the footer's last digit is lowkey MIA, but we move 🫶).