Gio.DBusConnection.add_filter

### Method

# Gio DBusConnectionadd_filter

since: 2.26

#### Declaration

    guint
    g_dbus_connection_add_filter (
      GDBusConnection* connection,
      GDBusMessageFilterFunction filter_function,
      gpointer user_data,
      GDestroyNotify user_data_free_func
    )

#### Description

Adds a message filter. Filters are handlers that are run on all incoming and outgoing messages, prior to standard dispatch. Filters are run in the order that they were added. The same handler can be added as a filter more than once, in which case it will be run more than once. Filters added during a filter callback won’t be run on the message being processed. Filter functions are allowed to modify and even drop messages.

Note that filters are run in a dedicated message handling thread so they can’t block and, generally, can’t do anything but signal a worker thread. Also note that filters are rarely needed - use API such as g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply(), `g_dbus_connection_signal_subscribe()` or `g_dbus_connection_call()` instead.

If a filter consumes an incoming message the message is not dispatched anywhere else - not even the standard dispatch machinery (that API such as `g_dbus_connection_signal_subscribe()` and `g_dbus_connection_send_message_with_reply()` relies on) will see the message. Similarly, if a filter consumes an outgoing message, the message will not be sent to the other peer.

If `user_data_free_func` is non-`NULL`, it will be called (in the thread-default main context of the thread you are calling this method from) at some point after `user_data` is no longer needed. (It is not guaranteed to be called synchronously when the filter is removed, and may be called after `connection` has been destroyed.)

Available since: 2.26

#### Parameters

`filter_function`

  Type: `GDBusMessageFilterFunction`

  A filter function.

`user_data`

  Type: `gpointer`

  User data to pass to `filter_function`.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The data is owned by the caller of the method.

`user_data_free_func`

  Type: `GDestroyNotify`

  Function to free `user_data` with when filter is removed or `NULL`.

#### Return value

Type: `guint`

A filter identifier that can be used with `g_dbus_connection_remove_filter()`