gecko-dev/netwerk/base/nsIIOService.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIProtocolHandler;
interface nsIChannel;
interface nsIURI;
interface nsIFile;
interface nsIDOMNode;
interface nsIPrincipal;
interface nsILoadInfo;

/**
 * nsIIOService provides a set of network utility functions.  This interface
 * duplicates many of the nsIProtocolHandler methods in a protocol handler
 * independent way (e.g., NewURI inspects the scheme in order to delegate
 * creation of the new URI to the appropriate protocol handler).  nsIIOService
 * also provides a set of URL parsing utility functions.  These are provided
 * as a convenience to the programmer and in some cases to improve performance
 * by eliminating intermediate data structures and interfaces.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(b1c3c61d-2df9-4240-ae16-0355b51a2770)]
interface nsIIOService : nsISupports
{
    /**
     * Returns a protocol handler for a given URI scheme.
     *
     * @param aScheme the URI scheme
     * @return reference to corresponding nsIProtocolHandler
     */
    nsIProtocolHandler getProtocolHandler(in string aScheme);

    /**
     * Returns the protocol flags for a given scheme.
     *
     * @param aScheme the URI scheme
     * @return value of corresponding nsIProtocolHandler::protocolFlags
     */
    unsigned long getProtocolFlags(in string aScheme);

    /**
     * This method constructs a new URI by determining the scheme of the
     * URI spec, and then delegating the construction of the URI to the
     * protocol handler for that scheme. QueryInterface can be used on
     * the resulting URI object to obtain a more specific type of URI.
     *
     * @see nsIProtocolHandler::newURI
     */
    nsIURI newURI(in AUTF8String aSpec,
                  in string aOriginCharset,
                  in nsIURI aBaseURI);

    /**
     * This method constructs a new URI from a nsIFile.
     *
     * @param aFile specifies the file path
     * @return reference to a new nsIURI object
     *
     * Note: in the future, for perf reasons we should allow 
     * callers to specify whether this is a file or directory by
     * splitting this  into newDirURI() and newActualFileURI().
     */
    nsIURI newFileURI(in nsIFile aFile);

    /**
     * Creates a channel for a given URI.
     *
     * @param aURI
     *        nsIURI from which to make a channel
     * @param aLoadingNode
     *        The loadingDocument of the channel.
     *        The element or document where the result of this request will be
     *        used. This is the document/element that will get access to the
     *        result of this request. For example for an image load, it's the
     *        document in which the image will be loaded. And for a CSS
     *        stylesheet it's the document whose rendering will be affected by
     *        the stylesheet.
     *        If possible, pass in the element which is performing the load. But
     *        if the load is coming from a JS API (such as XMLHttpRequest) or if
     *        the load might be coalesced across multiple elements (such as
     *        for <img>) then pass in the Document node instead.
     *        For loads that are not related to any document, such as loads coming
     *        from addons or internal browser features, use null here.
     * @param aLoadingPrincipal
     *        The loadingPrincipal of the channel.
     *        The principal of the document where the result of this request will
     *        be used.
     *        This is generally the principal of the aLoadingNode. However for
     *        loads where aLoadingNode is null this argument still needs to be
     *        passed. For example for loads from a WebWorker, pass the principal
     *        of that worker. For loads from an addon or from internal browser
     *        features, pass the system principal.
     *        This principal should almost always be the system principal if
     *        aLoadingNode is null. The only exception to this is for loads
     *        from WebWorkers since they don't have any nodes to be passed as
     *        aLoadingNode.
     *        Please note, aLoadingPrincipal is *not* the principal of the
     *        resource being loaded. But rather the principal of the context
     *        where the resource will be used.
     * @param aTriggeringPrincipal
     *        The triggeringPrincipal of the load.
     *        The triggeringPrincipal is the principal of the resource that caused
     *        this particular URL to be loaded.
     *        Most likely the triggeringPrincipal and the loadingPrincipal are
     *        identical, in which case the triggeringPrincipal can be left out.
     *        In some cases the loadingPrincipal and the triggeringPrincipal are
     *        different however, e.g. a stylesheet may import a subresource. In
     *        that case the principal of the stylesheet which contains the
     *        import command is the triggeringPrincipal, and the principal of
     *        the document whose rendering is affected is the loadingPrincipal.
     * @param aSecurityFlags
     *        The securityFlags of the channel.
     *        Any of the securityflags defined in nsILoadInfo.idl
     * @param aContentPolicyType
     *        The contentPolicyType of the channel.
     *        Any of the content types defined in nsIContentPolicy.idl
     * @return reference to the new nsIChannel object
     *
     * Please note, if you provide both a loadingNode and a loadingPrincipal,
     * then loadingPrincipal must be equal to loadingNode->NodePrincipal().
     * But less error prone is to just supply a loadingNode.
     *
     * Keep in mind that URIs coming from a webpage should *never* use the
     * systemPrincipal as the loadingPrincipal.
     */
    nsIChannel newChannelFromURI2(in nsIURI aURI,
                                  in nsIDOMNode aLoadingNode,
                                  in nsIPrincipal aLoadingPrincipal,
                                  in nsIPrincipal aTriggeringPrincipal,
                                  in unsigned long aSecurityFlags,
                                  in unsigned long aContentPolicyType);

    /**
     * Equivalent to newChannelFromURI2(aURI, aLoadingNode, ...)
     */
    nsIChannel newChannelFromURIWithLoadInfo(in nsIURI aURI,
                                             in nsILoadInfo aLoadInfo);

    /**
     * Creates a channel for a given URI.
     *
     * @param aURI nsIURI from which to make a channel
     * @return reference to the new nsIChannel object
     */
    nsIChannel newChannelFromURI(in nsIURI aURI);

    /**
     * Equivalent to newChannelFromURI2(newURI(...))
     */
    nsIChannel newChannel2(in AUTF8String aSpec,
                           in string aOriginCharset,
                           in nsIURI aBaseURI,
                           in nsIDOMNode aLoadingNode,
                           in nsIPrincipal aLoadingPrincipal,
                           in nsIPrincipal aTriggeringPrincipal,
                           in unsigned long aSecurityFlags,
                           in unsigned long aContentPolicyType);

    /**
     * Equivalent to newChannelFromURI(newURI(...))
     */
    nsIChannel newChannel(in AUTF8String aSpec,
                          in string aOriginCharset,
                          in nsIURI aBaseURI);

    /**
     * Returns true if networking is in "offline" mode. When in offline mode, 
     * attempts to access the network will fail (although this does not 
     * necessarily correlate with whether there is actually a network 
     * available -- that's hard to detect without causing the dialer to 
     * come up).
     *
     * Changing this fires observer notifications ... see below.
     */
    attribute boolean offline;

    /**
     * Set whether network appears to be offline for network connections from
     * a given appID.
     *
     * Calling this function may fire the "network:app-offline-status-changed"
     * notification, which is also sent to child processes containing this appId.
     * 'state' must one of nsIAppOfflineInfo::{ONLINE|OFFLINE|WIFI_ONLY}.
     */
    void setAppOffline(in uint32_t appId, in long state);

    /**
     * Returns true if given appId is currently not allowed to make network
     * connections. It will return true if the app is in the wifi-only state
     * and we are currently on a 3G connection.
     * The returned value does not depend on the offline state of the browser.
     */
    boolean isAppOffline(in uint32_t appId);

    /**
     * Returns the state of the app with the given appId.
     * returns nsIAppOfflineInfo::{ONLINE,OFFLINE,WIFI_ONLY}
     */
    long getAppOfflineState(in uint32_t appId);

    /**
     * Checks if a port number is banned. This involves consulting a list of
     * unsafe ports, corresponding to network services that may be easily
     * exploitable. If the given port is considered unsafe, then the protocol
     * handler (corresponding to aScheme) will be asked whether it wishes to
     * override the IO service's decision to block the port. This gives the
     * protocol handler ultimate control over its own security policy while
     * ensuring reasonable, default protection.
     *
     * @see nsIProtocolHandler::allowPort
     */
    boolean allowPort(in long aPort, in string aScheme);

    /**
     * Utility to extract the scheme from a URL string, consistently and
     * according to spec (see RFC 2396).
     *
     * NOTE: Most URL parsing is done via nsIURI, and in fact the scheme
     * can also be extracted from a URL string via nsIURI.  This method
     * is provided purely as an optimization.
     *
     * @param aSpec the URL string to parse
     * @return URL scheme
     *
     * @throws NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI if URL string is not of the right form.
     */
    ACString extractScheme(in AUTF8String urlString);
};

[scriptable, uuid(4ac296a0-ca1b-44f4-8787-117a88cb70fb)]
interface nsIAppOfflineInfo : nsISupports
{
    readonly attribute unsigned long appId;

    const long ONLINE = 1;
    const long OFFLINE = 2;
    const long WIFI_ONLY = 3;

    readonly attribute long mode;
};

%{C++
/**
 * We send notifications through nsIObserverService with topic
 * NS_IOSERVICE_GOING_OFFLINE_TOPIC and data NS_IOSERVICE_OFFLINE
 * when 'offline' has changed from false to true, and we are about
 * to shut down network services such as DNS. When those
 * services have been shut down, we send a notification with
 * topic NS_IOSERVICE_OFFLINE_STATUS_TOPIC and data
 * NS_IOSERVICE_OFFLINE.
 *
 * When 'offline' changes from true to false, then after
 * network services have been restarted, we send a notification
 * with topic NS_IOSERVICE_OFFLINE_STATUS_TOPIC and data
 * NS_IOSERVICE_ONLINE.
 */
#define NS_IOSERVICE_GOING_OFFLINE_TOPIC  "network:offline-about-to-go-offline"
#define NS_IOSERVICE_OFFLINE_STATUS_TOPIC "network:offline-status-changed"
#define NS_IOSERVICE_OFFLINE              "offline"
#define NS_IOSERVICE_ONLINE               "online"

/**
 * When network:app-offline-status-changed is fired,
 * the 'Subject' argument is a nsIOfflineAppInfo.
 */
#define NS_IOSERVICE_APP_OFFLINE_STATUS_TOPIC "network:app-offline-status-changed"
%}