1 <refentry id="gmime-data-wrappers">
3 <refentrytitle>GMime Data Wrappers</refentrytitle>
4 <refmiscinfo>GMime Library</refmiscinfo>
8 <refname>GMime Data Wrappers</refname>
9 <refpurpose>How to use GMime Data Wrappers</refpurpose>
11 <refsect1 id="data-wrapper-overview">
12 <title>Overview of Data Wrappers</title>
14 <para>Data wrappers are very simple. A GMimeDataWrapper object
15 contains both a stream and an encoding-type. The encoding-type
16 (such as GMIME_PART_ENCODING_BASE64) is used by
17 g_mime_data_wrapper_write_to_stream() in order to decode the data
18 into its unencoded form. This means that you, the application
19 programmer, do not need to worry about decoding the content stream