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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
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#include "nsIBinaryInputStream.idl"
#include "nsrootidl.idl"
/**
* @see nsIObjectOutputStream
* @see nsIBinaryInputStream
*/
[scriptable, uuid(6c248606-4eae-46fa-9df0-ba58502368eb)]
interface nsIObjectInputStream : nsIBinaryInputStream
{
/**
* Read an object from this stream to satisfy a strong or weak reference
* to one of its interfaces. If the interface was not along the primary
* inheritance chain ending in the "root" or XPCOM-identity nsISupports,
* readObject will QueryInterface from the deserialized object root to the
* correct interface, which was specified when the object was serialized.
*
* @see nsIObjectOutputStream
*/
nsISupports readObject(in PRBool aIsStrongRef);
[notxpcom] nsresult readID(out nsID aID);
/**
* Optimized deserialization support -- see nsIStreamBufferAccess.idl.
*/
[notxpcom] charPtr getBuffer(in PRUint32 aLength, in PRUint32 aAlignMask);
[notxpcom] void putBuffer(in charPtr aBuffer, in PRUint32 aLength);
};
%{C++
inline nsresult
NS_ReadOptionalObject(nsIObjectInputStream* aStream, PRBool aIsStrongRef,
nsISupports* *aResult)
{
PRBool nonnull;
nsresult rv = aStream->ReadBoolean(&nonnull);
if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) {
if (nonnull)
rv = aStream->ReadObject(aIsStrongRef, aResult);
else
*aResult = nsnull;
}
return rv;
}
%}