gecko-dev/netwerk/cache/public/nsINetDataCacheRecord.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsrootidl.idl"
interface nsIFileSpec;
interface nsIChannel;
interface nsINetDataCache;
/**
* The nsINetDataCacheRecord represents a single entry in a database that
* caches data retrieved from the network. On top of this low-level interface
* to the raw record data, the cache manager implements a higher-level record
* interface, nsICachedNetData. Each instance of nsINetDataCacheRecord is
* (internally) associated with a parent database, an instance of the
* nsINetDataCache interface. This interface is essentially a pseudo-private
* API for the cache manager. Other clients should never use this interface.
*
* Each cache record may contain both content and metadata. The content may
* be, for example, GIF image data or HTML, and it is accessed through
* nsIChannel's streaming API. The opaque metadata, which may contain HTTP
* headers among other things, is accessed as a contiguous byte array. Each
* entry in the cache is indexed by two different keys: a unique record id
* number, generated by the cache, and an opaque string. The latter contains
* the URI and other secondary key information, e.g. HTTP form post key/value
* pairs.
*
* The nsINetDataCacheRecord interface is agnostic as to where the data is
* stored and whether the storage is volatile or persistent. The memory cache,
* the disk cache, a flat-file cache and any read-only extension caches must
* all implement this interface.
*
* @See nsICachedNetData
* @See nsINetDataCache
* @See nsINetDataDiskCache
* @See nsINetDataCacheManager
*/
interface nsILoadGroup;
[scriptable, uuid(fdcdd6a0-7461-11d3-90ca-0040056a906e)]
interface nsINetDataCacheRecord : nsISupports
{
/**
* As far as the nsINetDataCacheRecord implementation is concerned, the
* cache entry database key is an opaque blob, but it's intended to contain
* both the URI and any secondary keys, such as HTTP post data.
*/
void getKey(out unsigned long length, [size_is(length), retval] out string key);
/**
* A persistent record number assigned by the cache which must be unique
* among all entries stored within the same cache. The record ID serves as
* an alternate key to the cache record. Providing that they satisfy the
* afforementioned uniqueness requirement, record IDs can be assigned any
* value by the database except that they may never be zero.
*/
readonly attribute PRInt32 recordID;
/**
* Opaque data which can be updated for each cache entry independently of
* the content data. This data is a combination of protocol-independent
* data provided by the cache manager and protocol-specific meta-data,
* e.g. HTTP headers.
*/
void getMetaData(out PRUint32 length, [size_is(length), retval] out string metaData);
void setMetaData(in PRUint32 length, [size_is(length)] in string data);
/**
* Number of content bytes stored in the cache, i.e. via the nsIChannel
* streaming APIs. This may be less than the complete content length if a
* partial cache fill occurred. Additionally, the cached content can be
* truncated by reducing the value of this attribute. When this attribute
* is set to zero the associated cache disk file, if any, should be
* deleted.
*/
attribute PRUint32 storedContentLength;
/**
* Delete this cache entry and its associated content.
*/
void delete();
/**
* Create a channel for reading or writing a stream of content into the
* entry. However, many of the nsIChannel methods may return
* NS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, including:
*
* + GetURI()
* + GetContentType()
* + GetContentLength()
*/
nsIChannel newChannel(in nsILoadGroup loadGroup);
/**
* If a cache is implemented such that it stores each URI's content in an
* individual disk file, this method will identify the file corresponding
* to this record. This may be used to implement the "stream-as-file"
* semantics required by some plugins and by the 'jar:' protocol handler.
* However, not all cache implementations are *required* to store the data
* from each URI in an individual file, so it is acceptable for an
* implementation of this method to signal NS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.
*/
readonly attribute nsIFileSpec filename;
};