gecko-dev/widget/xremoteclient/nsRemoteClient.h
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/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
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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/. */
#ifndef nsRemoteClient_h__
#define nsRemoteClient_h__
#include "nscore.h"
/**
* Pure-virtual common base class for remoting implementations.
*/
class nsRemoteClient
{
public:
/**
* Initializes the client
*/
virtual nsresult Init() = 0;
/**
* Sends a command to a running instance.
*
* @param aProgram This is the preferred program that we want to use
* for this particular command.
*
* @param aNoProgramFallback This boolean attribute tells the client
* code that if the preferred program isn't found that it should
* fail not send the command to another server.
*
* @param aUsername This allows someone to only talk to an instance
* of the server that's running under a particular username. If
* this isn't specified here it's pulled from the LOGNAME
* environmental variable if it's set.
*
* @param aProfile This allows you to specify a particular server
* running under a named profile. If it is not specified the
* profile is not checked.
*
* @param aCommand This is the command that is passed to the server.
* Please see the additional information located at:
* http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html
*
* @param aDesktopStartupID the contents of the DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID environment
* variable defined by the Startup Notification specification
* http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-0.1.txt
*
* @param aResponse If there is a response, it will be here. This
* includes error messages. The string is allocated using stdlib
* string functions, so free it with free().
*
* @return true if succeeded, false if no running instance was found.
*/
virtual nsresult SendCommand(const char *aProgram, const char *aUsername,
const char *aProfile, const char *aCommand,
const char* aDesktopStartupID,
char **aResponse, bool *aSucceeded) = 0;
/**
* Send a complete command line to a running instance.
*
* @param aDesktopStartupID the contents of the DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID environment
* variable defined by the Startup Notification specification
* http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-0.1.txt
*
* @see sendCommand
* @param argc The number of command-line arguments.
*
*/
virtual nsresult SendCommandLine(const char *aProgram, const char *aUsername,
const char *aProfile,
PRInt32 argc, char **argv,
const char* aDesktopStartupID,
char **aResponse, bool *aSucceeded) = 0;
};
#endif // nsRemoteClient_h__