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Component Loaders</h2></center>
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1999-08-04 10:24:33 +04:00
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<center>Brendan Eich <<a href="mailto:brendan@mozilla.org">brendan@mozilla.org</a>>
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1999-07-29 00:22:49 +04:00
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<br>John Bandauer <<a href="mailto:jband@netscape.com">jband@netscape.com</a>>
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<br>Mike McCabe <<a href="mailto:mccabe@netscape.com">mccabe@netscape.com</a>>
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1999-08-04 10:24:33 +04:00
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<br>Mike Shaver <<a href="mailto:shaver@mozilla.org">shaver@mozilla.org</a>>
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1999-07-29 00:22:49 +04:00
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<br>Suresh Duddi <<a href="mailto:dp@netscape.com">dp@netscape.com</a>></center>
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<h3>
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Scope of document</h3>
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Component Developers</li>
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Clients of XPCOM (for information only)</li>
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<h3>
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Why Component Loaders</h3>
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Currently XPCOM requires all component to be packaged in DLLs and uses
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the dynamic loading mechanism available with each platform to accomplish
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instantiation of component. This method doesn't blend well with say components
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written in java or javascript and packaged different from a DLL. Hence
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the proposal for Component Loaders.
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<br>
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Component Loaders</h3>
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XPCOM in its simplest form can be viewed as creating instances of objects
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given a PROGID or ClassID. How it does this instantiation is specific to
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XPCOM and opaque to clients of XPCOM.
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<p>Internally XPCOM maps the passed in PROGID to a CID and then the CID
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maps into a DLL name. XPCOM loads the DLL assuming the dynamic loading
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mechanism to create a factory. Then, asks the factory to create a particular
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instance. Here are roughly the steps involved:
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CreateInstance(..., PROGID,...)</li>
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Map PROGID to CID</li>
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Map CID to DLL</li>
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factory = Dynamically Load DLL to create Factory</li>
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Use Factory to create object instance</li>
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</ol>
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The proposal for Component Loaders is to get XPCOM to delegate the loading
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to a component loader:
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CreateInstance(..., PROGID,...)</li>
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Map PROGID to CID</li>
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<li>
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<font color="#990000">Map CID to ComponentType</font></li>
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<font color="#990000">If ComponentType is DLL</font></li>
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factory = Dynamically Load DLL to create Factory</li>
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</ul>
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<font color="#990000">else</font></li>
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<font color="#990000">ComponentLoaderServicePROGID = "<i>component://Netscape/XPCOM/component-loader&type=</i>"
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+ ComponentType <sup><a href="#* ProgID syntax might change">*</a></sup></font></li>
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<font color="#990000">loaderInstance = GetService(..., ComponentLoaderServicePROGID,...)</font></li>
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<font color="#990000">factory = loaderInstance->CreateFactory(..., componentLocation,...)</font></li>
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</ul>
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Use Factory to create object instance</li>
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Format of ComponentType</h4>
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ComponentType is assumed to be mimetype.
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<h4>
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Component Registration</h4>
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Registration of components in DLLs wont change. ComponentType of DLL is
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assumed here. To facilitate registration of components with specifc component
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types, the component manager will provide the following API:
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<p><tt><font color="#990000">RegisterComponentWithType(const nsCID &aClass,</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font color="#990000">
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const char *aClassName,</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font color="#990000">
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const char *aProgID,</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font color="#990000">
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const char *aComponentType,</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font color="#990000">
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const char *aComponentLocation,</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font color="#990000">
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PRBool aReplace,</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font color="#990000">
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PRBool aPersist);</font></tt>
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Component Loader Service Registration</h4>
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Since the loader is just another component with a special progid, there
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is no special registration of the component loader. Component Loaders
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use either the RegisterComponent() api if they are a DLL (most common)
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or use RegisterComponentWithType() api if they are themselves of a particular
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type (very rare).</ul>
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Autoregistration of non DLL Components and Component Loaders</h3>
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<Need to figure this out>
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<p><a NAME="* ProgID syntax might change"></a><sup><a href="#* ProgID syntax might change">*</a></sup>
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ProgID syntax might change
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1999-08-04 11:07:37 +04:00
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<br><i><font size=-1>Last Modified: 1 Aug 1999 Suresh Duddi <<a href="mailto:dp@netscape.com">dp@netscape.com</a>></font></i>
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