gecko/content/base/public/nsIFrameLoader.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIDocShell;
interface nsIURI;
interface nsIFrame;

[scriptable, uuid(897af00a-c907-4311-88dc-f9d12f05b110)]
interface nsIFrameLoader : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * Get the docshell from the frame loader.
   */
  readonly attribute nsIDocShell docShell;

  /**
   * Start loading the frame. This method figures out what to load
   * from the owner content in the frame loader.
   */
  void loadFrame();

  /**
   * Loads the specified URI in this frame. Behaves identically to loadFrame,
   * except that this method allows specifying the URI to load.
   */
  void loadURI(in nsIURI aURI);

  /**
   * Destroy the frame loader and everything inside it. This will
   * clear the weak owner content reference.
   */
  void destroy();

  /**
   * Find out whether the loader's frame is at too great a depth in
   * the frame tree.  This can be used to decide what operations may
   * or may not be allowed on the loader's docshell.
   */
  readonly attribute boolean depthTooGreat;

  /**
   * Updates the position and size of the subdocument loaded by this frameloader.
   *
   *  @param aIFrame The nsIFrame for the content node that owns this frameloader
   */
  [noscript] void updatePositionAndSize(in nsIFrame aIFrame);

  /**
   * Activate remote frame.
   * Throws an exception with non-remote frames.
   */
  void activateRemoteFrame();
};

native alreadyAddRefed_nsFrameLoader(already_AddRefed<nsFrameLoader>);

[scriptable, uuid(8f3b12a0-35ae-4e0d-9152-8e0d7e49d446)]
interface nsIFrameLoaderOwner : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * The frame loader owned by this nsIFrameLoaderOwner
   */
  readonly attribute nsIFrameLoader frameLoader;
  [noscript, notxpcom] alreadyAddRefed_nsFrameLoader GetFrameLoader();

  /**
   * Swap frame loaders with the given nsIFrameLoaderOwner.  This may
   * only be posible in a very limited range of circumstances, or
   * never, depending on the object implementing this interface.
   *
   * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED if the swapping logic is not
   *   implemented for the two given frame loader owners.
   * @throws NS_ERROR_DOM_SECURITY_ERR if the swap is not allowed on
   *   security grounds.
   */
  void swapFrameLoaders(in nsIFrameLoaderOwner aOtherOwner);
};