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The -remote option has existed essentially forever, but its usefulness is questionable: - It requires a running instance to be any useful, so any script actually using it should first do -remote 'ping()' and handle the response properly. - It is not cross-application. The remote service dispatches the -remote commands to the command line handler, and, for example, desktop b2g builds don't have handlers for -remote (although thunderbird and seamonkey do). - It is not a cross-platform option, which leads to the following point: - There are other command line ways to do the same thing (at least in Firefox), without having to jump through hoops with -remote 'ping()', because there are command line options to do those same things on non-X11 platforms. For the latter, in Firefox case: - -remote 'openURL(url)' can be replaced with firefox url - -remote 'openURL(url,new-tab)' can be replaced with firefox -new-tab url - -remote 'openURL(url,new-window)' can be replaced with firefox -new-window url - -remote 'openfile(file,...)' is the same as -remote 'openurl(file,...) so, can be replaced as above - -remote 'xfedocommand(openbrowser)' is inherited from the mozilla suite and doesn't make much sense, but can be replaced with firefox -new-window The interesting part is that without changing nsBrowserContentHandler.js, -remote still works, meaning that if people really feel strongly about -remote, they'll still be able to write an addon to bring it back. This also means this patch actually doesn't remove -remote for applications other than Firefox that do support it, although -remote 'ping()' doesn't work as expected. However, other -remote commands will now work even without a running instance.
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63 lines
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/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
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/* vim:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=4:
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*/
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/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
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* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
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* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
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#ifndef nsRemoteClient_h__
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#define nsRemoteClient_h__
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#include "nscore.h"
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/**
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* Pure-virtual common base class for remoting implementations.
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*/
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class nsRemoteClient
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{
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public:
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/**
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* Initializes the client
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*/
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virtual nsresult Init() = 0;
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/**
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* Send a complete command line to a running instance.
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*
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* @param aProgram This is the preferred program that we want to use
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* for this particular command.
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*
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* @param aUsername This allows someone to only talk to an instance
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* of the server that's running under a particular username. If
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* this isn't specified here it's pulled from the LOGNAME
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* environmental variable if it's set.
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*
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* @param aProfile This allows you to specify a particular server
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* running under a named profile. If it is not specified the
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* profile is not checked.
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*
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* @param argc The number of command-line arguments.
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*
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* @param argv The command-line arguments.
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*
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* @param aDesktopStartupID the contents of the DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID environment
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* variable defined by the Startup Notification specification
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* http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-0.1.txt
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*
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* @param aResponse If there is a response, it will be here. This
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* includes error messages. The string is allocated using stdlib
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* string functions, so free it with free().
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*
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* @return true if succeeded, false if no running instance was found.
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*
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*/
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virtual nsresult SendCommandLine(const char *aProgram, const char *aUsername,
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const char *aProfile,
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int32_t argc, char **argv,
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const char* aDesktopStartupID,
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char **aResponse, bool *aSucceeded) = 0;
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};
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#endif // nsRemoteClient_h__
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