pjs/xpcom/io/nsIFastLoadFileControl.idl

/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
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 * The Original Code is Mozilla FastLoad code.
 * 
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape
 * Communications Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are
 * Copyright (C) 2001 Netscape Communications Corporation. All
 * Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Contributor(s):
 *   Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org> (original author)
 */

#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsrootidl.idl"

interface nsIFile;
interface nsISimpleEnumerator;

/**
 * The nsIFastLoadFileControl interface and its subinterfaces are mix-ins for
 * classes implementing nsIObjectInputStream and nsIObjectOutputStream, so that
 * those stream types can be used with nsIFastLoadService to access and compute
 * FastLoad file checksums, update and check FastLoad file dependencies, and
 * multiplex documents loaded via non-blocking i/o.
 *
 * If an nsIObjectInputStream class doesn't support nsIFastLoadReadControl, or
 * an nsIObjectOutputStream class doesn't support nsIFastLoadWriteControl, that
 * implementation may still be useful for object serialization, but it can't be
 * used to read or write a Mozilla FastLoad file.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(8a1e2c63-af50-4147-af7e-26289dc180dd)]
interface nsIFastLoadFileControl : nsISupports
{
    /**
     * Get and set the recorded checksum value from the FastLoad file header.
     */
    attribute PRUint32 checksum;

    /**
     * Multiplexed document control methods.  A FastLoad file may contain
     * multiple interleaved documents identified by a URI specifier string,
     * and indexed for fast multiplexor select by an opaque URI object key.
     * You StartMuxedDocument when initiating a document load, then Select
     * before every batch of calls to (de)serialize document data, and End
     * when the load completes.
     *
     * Document multiplexing is necessary to support incremental FastLoad
     * development in a non-blocking i/o architecture such as Mozilla, where
     * some (but not all, at first, or for a while during development) of the
     * results of parsing and compiling various inputs can be multiplexed to
     * or from a FastLoad file.
     */
    void startMuxedDocument(in nsISupports aURI, in string aURISpec);
    void selectMuxedDocument(in nsISupports aURI);
    void endMuxedDocument(in nsISupports aURI);
};

[scriptable, uuid(652ecec6-d40b-45b6-afef-641d6c63a35b)]
interface nsIFastLoadReadControl : nsIFastLoadFileControl
{
    /**
     * Computes the correct checksum of the FastLoad file, independent of the
     * header's checksum value.  The header checksum field is treated as zero
     * when computing the checksum.
     */
    PRUint32 computeChecksum();

    /**
     * Get the collection of dependency nsIFile instances recorded during the
     * FastLoad file write or read/update process, and checked during the read
     * process to invalidate the FastLoad file if any dependencies are newer.
     */
    readonly attribute nsISimpleEnumerator dependencies;
};

[scriptable, uuid(2ad6e9e6-1379-4e45-a899-a54b27ff915c)]
interface nsIFastLoadWriteControl : nsIFastLoadFileControl
{
    /**
     * Add a file dependency of the FastLoad file (e.g., a .jar file) to the
     * set of dependencies that trigger regeneration if any dependency has a
     * last-modified-time greater than the FastLoad file's mtime.
     */
    void addDependency(in nsIFile aFile);
};