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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIAbCard;

[scriptable, uuid(fe04c8e6-501e-11d3-a527-0060b0fc04b7)]
interface nsIAbAddressCollecter : nsISupports {
  [noscript] void collectAddress(in string address, in boolean aCreateCard);

  /* CollectUnicodeAddress is the most I18N friendly
     of the two methods to call. If you just take a char * address
     as used by CollectAddress then you don't know what char set
     the address is in (UTF-8??).
  */
  void collectUnicodeAddress(in wstring address, in boolean aCreateCard);

  // get the first card with this name / value in the collected ab, 
  // which is determined by the mail.collect_addressbook pref
  nsIAbCard getCardFromAttribute(in string aName, in string aValue);
};