pjs/grendel/storage/mdb/nsIMdbBlob.java

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/* -*- Mode: java; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
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* The Original Code is the Grendel mail/news client.
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* The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape Communications
* Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are Copyright (C) 1997
* Netscape Communications Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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* Created: Mauro Botelho <mabotelh@email.com>, 20 Mar 1999.
*/
package grendel.storage.mdb;
/*| nsIMdbBlob: a base class for objects composed mainly of byte sequence state.
**| (This provides a base class for nsIMdbCell, so that cells themselves can
**| be used to set state in another cell, without extracting a buffer.)
|*/
interface nsIMdbBlob extends nsIMdbObject { // a string with associated charset
// { ===== begin nsIMdbBlob methods =====
// { ----- begin attribute methods -----
public void SetBlob(nsIMdbEnv ev,
nsIMdbBlob ioBlob); // reads inBlob slots
// when inBlob is in the same suite, this might be fastest cell-to-cell
public void ClearBlob( // make empty (so content has zero length)
nsIMdbEnv ev);
// clearing a yarn is like SetYarn() with empty yarn instance content
public int GetBlobFill(nsIMdbEnv ev);
// size of blob
// Same value that would be put into mYarn_Fill, if one called GetYarn()
// with a yarn instance that had mYarn_Buf==nil and mYarn_Size==0.
public void SetYarn(nsIMdbEnv ev,
final String inYarn); // reads from yarn slots
// make this text object contain content from the yarn's buffer
public String GetYarn(nsIMdbEnv ev);
// writes some yarn slots
// copy content into the yarn buffer, and update mYarn_Fill and mYarn_Form
public String AliasYarn(nsIMdbEnv ev);
// writes ALL yarn slots
// AliasYarn() reveals sensitive internal text buffer state to the caller
// by setting mYarn_Buf to point into the guts of this text implementation.
//
// The caller must take great care to avoid writing on this space, and to
// avoid calling any method that would cause the state of this text object
// to change (say by directly or indirectly setting the text to hold more
// content that might grow the size of the buffer and free the old buffer).
// In particular, callers should scrupulously avoid making calls into the
// mdb interface to write any content while using the buffer pointer found
// in the returned yarn instance. Best safe usage involves copying content
// into some other kind of external content representation beyond mdb.
//
// (The original design of this method a week earlier included the concept
// of very fast and efficient cooperative locking via a pointer to some lock
// member slot. But let's ignore that complexity in the current design.)
//
// AliasYarn() is specifically intended as the first step in transferring
// content from nsIMdbBlob to a nsString representation, without forcing extra
// allocations and/or memory copies. (A standard nsIMdbBlob_AsString() utility
// will use AliasYarn() as the first step in setting a nsString instance.)
//
// This is an alternative to the GetYarn() method, which has copy semantics
// only; AliasYarn() relaxes a robust safety principle only for performance
// reasons, to accomodate the need for callers to transform text content to
// some other canonical representation that would necessitate an additional
// copy and transformation when such is incompatible with the mdbYarn format.
//
// The implementation of AliasYarn() should have extremely little overhead
// besides the public dispatch to the method implementation, and the code
// necessary to populate all the mdbYarn member slots with internal buffer
// address and metainformation that describes the buffer content. Note that
// mYarn_Grow must always be set to nil to indicate no resizing is allowed.
// } ----- end attribute methods -----
// } ===== end nsIMdbBlob methods =====
};