gecko/toolkit/components/feeds/public/nsIFeed.idl

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#include "nsIFeedContainer.idl"

interface nsIArray;
interface nsIFeedGenerator;

/**
 * An nsIFeed represents a single Atom or RSS feed.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(3b8aae33-80e2-4efa-99c8-a6c5b99f76ea)]
interface nsIFeed : nsIFeedContainer
{
  /** 
  * Uses description, subtitle, and extensions
  * to generate a summary. 
  */
  attribute nsIFeedTextConstruct subtitle;

  // All content classifies as a "feed" - it is the transport.
  const unsigned long TYPE_FEED = 0;
  const unsigned long TYPE_AUDIO = 1;
  const unsigned long TYPE_IMAGE = 2;
  const unsigned long TYPE_VIDEO = 4;

  /**
  * The type of feed. For example, a podcast would be TYPE_AUDIO.
  */
  readonly attribute unsigned long type;
  
  /**
  * The total number of enclosures found in the feed.
  */
  attribute long enclosureCount;

  /**
  * The items or entries in feed.
  */
  attribute nsIArray items;

  /**
  * No one really knows what cloud is for.
  *
  * It supposedly enables some sort of interaction with an XML-RPC or
  * SOAP service.
  */
  attribute nsIWritablePropertyBag2 cloud;

  /**
  * Information about the software that produced the feed.
  */
  attribute nsIFeedGenerator generator;

  /**
  * An image url and some metadata (as defined by RSS2).
  *
  */
  attribute nsIWritablePropertyBag2 image;

  /**
  * No one really knows what textInput is for.
  *
  * See
  * <http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2894/rss-joy-textinput>
  * for more details.
  */
  attribute nsIWritablePropertyBag2 textInput;

  /**
  * Days to skip fetching. This field was supposed to designate
  * intervals for feed fetching. It's not generally implemented. For
  * example, if this array contained "Monday", aggregators should not
  * fetch the feed on Mondays.
  */
  attribute nsIArray skipDays;

 /**
  * Hours to skip fetching. This field was supposed to designate
  * intervals for feed fetching. It's not generally implemented. See
  * <http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss> for more information.
  */
  attribute nsIArray skipHours;
};