gecko-dev/netwerk/base/nsICacheInfoChannel.idl
Michal Novotny ee8f43208a Bug 1448476 - Cache entry corruption after writing the alternate data. r=honzab
When writing to alt-data output stream fails for whatever reason, we now try to
truncate alternative data and keep the original data instead of dooming the
whole entry. The patch also changes how is the predicted size passed to the
cache. Instead of a dedicated method it's now an argument of openOutputStream
and openAlternativeOutputStream methods which fail in case the entry would
exceed the allowed limit.
2018-04-25 07:01:00 +03:00

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/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#include "nsISupports.idl"
interface nsIOutputStream;
[scriptable, uuid(72c34415-c6eb-48af-851f-772fa9ee5972)]
interface nsICacheInfoChannel : nsISupports
{
/**
* Get the number of times the cache entry has been opened. This attribute is
* equivalent to nsICachingChannel.cacheToken.fetchCount.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if the cache entry or the alternate data
* cache entry cannot be read.
*/
readonly attribute int32_t cacheTokenFetchCount;
/**
* Get expiration time from cache token. This attribute is equivalent to
* nsICachingChannel.cacheToken.expirationTime.
*/
readonly attribute uint32_t cacheTokenExpirationTime;
/**
* Set/get charset of cache entry. Accessing this attribute is equivalent to
* calling nsICachingChannel.cacheToken.getMetaDataElement("charset") and
* nsICachingChannel.cacheToken.setMetaDataElement("charset").
*/
attribute ACString cacheTokenCachedCharset;
/**
* TRUE if this channel's data is being loaded from the cache. This value
* is undefined before the channel fires its OnStartRequest notification
* and after the channel fires its OnStopRequest notification.
*/
boolean isFromCache();
/**
* The unique ID of the corresponding nsICacheEntry from which the response is
* retrieved. By comparing the returned value, we can judge whether the data
* of two distinct nsICacheInfoChannels is from the same nsICacheEntry. This
* scenario could be useful when verifying whether the alternative data from
* one nsICacheInfochannel matches the main data from another one.
*
* Note: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE is thrown when a nsICacheInfoChannel has no
* valid corresponding nsICacheEntry.
*/
uint64_t getCacheEntryId();
/**
* Set/get the cache key. This integer uniquely identifies the data in
* the cache for this channel.
*
* A cache key retrieved from a particular instance of nsICacheInfoChannel
* could be set on another instance of nsICacheInfoChannel provided the
* underlying implementations are compatible and provided the new
* channel instance was created with the same URI. The implementation of
* nsICacheInfoChannel would be expected to use the cache entry identified
* by the cache token. Depending on the value of nsIRequest::loadFlags,
* the cache entry may be validated, overwritten, or simply read.
*
* The cache key may be 0 indicating that the URI of the channel is
* sufficient to locate the same cache entry. Setting a 0 cache key
* is likewise valid.
*/
attribute unsigned long cacheKey;
/**
* Tells the channel to behave as if the LOAD_FROM_CACHE flag has been set,
* but without affecting the loads for the entire loadGroup in case of this
* channel being the default load group's channel.
*/
attribute boolean allowStaleCacheContent;
/**
* Calling this method instructs the channel to serve the alternative data
* if that was previously saved in the cache, otherwise it will serve the
* real data.
* Must be called before AsyncOpen.
*/
void preferAlternativeDataType(in ACString type);
/**
* Get the preferred alternative data type set by preferAlternativeDataType().
* This attribute stands for the desired data type instead of the type of the
* information retrieved from the network stack.
*/
readonly attribute ACString preferredAlternativeDataType;
/**
* Holds the type of the alternative data representation that the channel
* is returning.
* Is empty string if no alternative data representation was requested, or
* if the requested representation wasn't found in the cache.
* Can only be called during or after OnStartRequest.
*/
readonly attribute ACString alternativeDataType;
/**
* Opens and returns an output stream that a consumer may use to save an
* alternate representation of the data.
* Must be called after the OnStopRequest that delivered the real data.
* The consumer may choose to replace the saved alt representation.
* Opening the output stream will fail if there are any open input streams
* reading the already saved alt representation.
*
* @param type
* type of the alternative data representation
* @param predictedSize
* Predicted size of the data that will be written. It's used to decide
* whether the resulting entry would exceed size limit, in which case
* an error is thrown. If the size isn't known in advance, -1 should be
* passed.
*/
nsIOutputStream openAlternativeOutputStream(in ACString type, in long long predictedSize);
};