gecko-dev/netwerk/base/public/nsIIOService.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsIChannel.idl"

interface nsIProtocolHandler;
interface nsIURI;
interface nsIInterfaceRequestor;
interface nsIStreamObserver;
interface nsIStreamListener;
interface nsIEventQueue;
interface nsIBufferInputStream;
interface nsIInputStream;
interface nsIBufferOutputStream;
interface nsIFileChannel;
interface nsILoadGroup;
interface nsILoadGroupObserver;
interface nsIFile;
interface nsIInputStream;
interface nsIOutputStream;

[scriptable, uuid(ab7c3a84-d488-11d3-8cda-0060b0fc14a3)]
interface nsIIOService : nsISupports
{
    /**
     * Returns a protocol handler for a given URI scheme.
     */
    nsIProtocolHandler getProtocolHandler(in string scheme);

    /**
     * This method constructs a new URI by first 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.
     */
    nsIURI newURI(in string aSpec, in nsIURI aBaseURI);

    /**
     * Creates a channel for a given URI. The notificationCallbacks argument
     * is used to obtain the appropriate callbacks for the URI's protocol from the
     * application.
     *
     * @param originalURI - Specifies the original URI which caused the creation
     * of this channel. This can occur when the construction of one channel
     * (e.g. for resource:) causes another channel to be created on its behalf
     * (e.g. a file: channel), or if a redirect occurs, causing the current
     * URL to become different from the original URL. If NULL, the aURI parameter
     * will be used as the originalURI instead.
     */
    nsIChannel newChannelFromURI(in string verb,
                                 in nsIURI aURI,
                                 in nsILoadGroup aLoadGroup,
                                 in nsIInterfaceRequestor notificationCallbacks,
                                 in nsLoadFlags loadAttributes,
                                 in nsIURI originalURI,
                                 in unsigned long bufferSegmentSize,
                                 in unsigned long bufferMaxSize);

    /**
     * Convenience routine that first creates a URI by calling NewURI, and
     * then passes the URI to NewChannelFromURI. 
     */
    nsIChannel newChannel(in string verb,
                          in string aSpec,
                          in nsIURI aBaseURI,
                          in nsILoadGroup aLoadGroup,
                          in nsIInterfaceRequestor notificationCallbacks,
                          in nsLoadFlags loadAttributes,
                          in nsIURI originalURI,
                          in unsigned long bufferSegmentSize,
                          in unsigned long bufferMaxSize);

    /**
     * Get the application name string that will be used as part
     * of a HTTP request.
     */
    readonly attribute wstring appCodeName;
  
    /**
     * Get the application version string that will be used as part
     * of a HTTP request.
     */
    readonly attribute wstring appVersion;

    /**
     * Get the application name.
     */
    readonly attribute wstring appName;

    /**
     * Get the translation of the application. The value for language
     * is usually a 2-letter code such as "en" and occasionally a 
     * five-character code to indicate a language subtype, such as "zh_CN". 
     */
    attribute wstring language;

    /**
     * Get the current platform (machine type).
     */
    readonly attribute wstring platform;

    /**
     * Get the HTTP advertised user agent string.
     */
    readonly attribute wstring userAgent;

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

    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    // URL parsing utilities

    /**
     * Utility for protocol implementors -- extracts the scheme from a URL 
     * string, consistently and according to spec.
     * @param urlString - the URL string to parse
     * @param schemeStartPos - the resulting starting position of the scheme substring
     *        (may skip over whitespace)
     * @param schemeEndPos - the resulting ending position of the scheme substring
     *        (the position of the colon)
     * @param scheme - an allocated substring containing the scheme. If this parameter
     *        is null going into the routine, then the scheme is not allocated and
     *        returned. Free with nsCRT::free.
     *
     * @return NS_OK - if successful
     * @return NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI - if the urlString is not of the right form
     */
    void extractScheme(in string urlString,
                       out unsigned long schemeStartPos,
                       out unsigned long schemeEndPos,
                       out string scheme);

    /**
     * Encode characters into % escaped hexcodes.
     */
    string escape(in string str, in short mask);

    /**
     * Decode % escaped hex codes into character values.
     */
    string unescape(in string str);

    /**
     * Get port from string.
     */
    long extractPort(in string str);

    /**
     * Resolves a relative path string containing "." and ".."
     * with respect to a base path (assumed to already be resolved). 
     * For example, resolving "../../foo/./bar/../baz.html" w.r.t.
     * "/a/b/c/d/e/" yields "/a/b/c/foo/baz.html". Attempting to 
     * ascend above the base results in the NS_ERROR_MALFORMED_URI
     * exception. If basePath is null, it treats it as "/".
     */
    string resolveRelativePath(in string relativePath,
                               in string basePath);
};

%{C++

#define NS_IOSERVICE_CID                             \
{ /* 9ac9e770-18bc-11d3-9337-00104ba0fd40 */         \
    0x9ac9e770,                                      \
    0x18bc,                                          \
    0x11d3,                                          \
    {0x93, 0x37, 0x00, 0x10, 0x4b, 0xa0, 0xfd, 0x40} \
}

%}