gecko-dev/widget/public/nsIXRemoteClient.idl
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#include "nsISupports.idl"
[scriptable, uuid(0bafc924-1dd2-11b2-8345-b59762ae0df7)]
interface nsIXRemoteClient : nsISupports
{
/**
* Initializes the client
*/
void init();
/**
* Sends a command to a running instance. If it returns false then
* there is no 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 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().
*/
boolean sendCommand(in string aProgram, in string aUsername,
in string aProfile, in string aCommand,
out string aResponse);
/**
* Shuts down the client
*/
void shutdown();
};