gecko-dev/xpcom/base/nsIGZFileWriter.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

%{C++
#include "nsDependentString.h"
%}

interface nsIFile;

/**
 * A simple interface for writing to a .gz file.
 *
 * Note that the file that this interface produces has a different format than
 * what you'd get if you compressed your data as a gzip stream and dumped the
 * result to a file.
 *
 * The standard gunzip tool cannot decompress a raw gzip stream, but can handle
 * the files produced by this interface.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(a256f26a-c603-459e-b5a4-53b4877f2cd8)]
interface nsIGZFileWriter : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * Initialize this object.  We'll write our gzip'ed data to the given file,
   * overwriting its contents if the file exists.
   *
   * init() will return an error if called twice.  It's an error to call any
   * other method on this interface without first calling init().
   */
  void init(in nsIFile file);

  /**
   * Write the given string to the file.
   */
  void write(in AUTF8String str);

  /*
   * The following two overloads of Write() are C++ because we can't overload
   * methods in XPIDL.  Anyway, they don't add much functionality for JS
   * callers.
   */
  %{C++
  /**
   * Write the given char* to the file (not including the null-terminator).
   */
  nsresult Write(const char* str)
  {
    return Write(str, strlen(str));
  }

  /**
   * Write |length| bytes of |str| to the file.
   */
  nsresult Write(const char* str, uint32_t len)
  {
    return Write(nsDependentCString(str, len));
  }
  %}

  /**
   * Close this nsIGZFileWriter.  This method is run when the underlying object
   * is destroyed, so it's not strictly necessary to explicitly call it from
   * your code.
   *
   * It's an error to call this method twice, and it's an error to call write()
   * after finish() has been called.
   */
  void finish();
};