gecko/dom/events/nsIEventListenerService.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIDOMEventListener;
interface nsIDOMEventTarget;

/**
 * An instance of this interface describes how an event listener
 * was added to an event target.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(11ba5fd7-8db2-4b1a-9f67-342cfa11afad)]
interface nsIEventListenerInfo : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * The type of the event for which the listener was added.
   * Null if the listener is for all the events.
   */
  readonly attribute AString type;
  readonly attribute boolean capturing;
  readonly attribute boolean allowsUntrusted;
  readonly attribute boolean inSystemEventGroup;

  /**
   * The underlying JS object of the event listener, if this listener
   * has one.  Null otherwise.
   */
  [implicit_jscontext]
  readonly attribute jsval listenerObject;

  /**
   * Tries to serialize event listener to a string.
   * Returns null if serialization isn't possible
   * (for example with C++ listeners).
   */
  AString toSource();
};

[scriptable, uuid(f6964bfb-dabe-4cab-9733-be0ee2bf8171)]
interface nsIEventListenerService : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * Returns an array of nsIEventListenerInfo objects.
   * If aEventTarget doesn't have any listeners, this returns null.
   */
  void getListenerInfoFor(in nsIDOMEventTarget aEventTarget,
                          [optional] out unsigned long aCount,
                          [retval, array, size_is(aCount)] out
                            nsIEventListenerInfo aOutArray);

  /**
   * Returns an array of event targets.
   * aEventTarget will be at index 0.
   * The objects are the ones that would be used as DOMEvent.currentTarget while
   * dispatching an event to aEventTarget
   * @note Some events, especially 'load', may actually have a shorter
   *       event target chain than what this methods returns.
   */
  void getEventTargetChainFor(in nsIDOMEventTarget aEventTarget,
                              [optional] out unsigned long aCount,
                              [retval, array, size_is(aCount)] out
                                nsIDOMEventTarget aOutArray);

  /**
   * Returns true if a event target has any listener for the given type.
   */
  boolean hasListenersFor(in nsIDOMEventTarget aEventTarget,
                          in DOMString aType);

  /**
   * Add a system-group eventlistener to a event target.
   */
  void addSystemEventListener(in nsIDOMEventTarget target,
                              in DOMString type,
                              in nsIDOMEventListener listener,
                              in boolean useCapture);

  /**
   * Remove a system-group eventlistener from a event target.
   */
  void removeSystemEventListener(in nsIDOMEventTarget target,
                                 in DOMString type,
                                 in nsIDOMEventListener listener,
                                 in boolean useCapture);

  void addListenerForAllEvents(in nsIDOMEventTarget target,
                               in nsIDOMEventListener listener,
                               [optional] in boolean aUseCapture,
                               [optional] in boolean aWantsUntrusted,
                               [optional] in boolean aSystemEventGroup);

  void removeListenerForAllEvents(in nsIDOMEventTarget target,
                                  in nsIDOMEventListener listener,
                                  [optional] in boolean aUseCapture,
                                  [optional] in boolean aSystemEventGroup);
};