gecko/content/base/public/nsIMutationObserver.h

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#ifndef nsIMutationObserver_h___
#define nsIMutationObserver_h___

#include "nsISupports.h"

class nsIAtom;
class nsIContent;
class nsIDocument;
class nsINode;

#define NS_IMUTATION_OBSERVER_IID \
{ 0x32e68316, 0x67d4, 0x44a5, \
 { 0x8d, 0x35, 0xd, 0x39, 0xf, 0xa9, 0xdf, 0x11 } }

/**
 * Information details about a characterdata change
 */
struct CharacterDataChangeInfo
{
  PRBool mAppend;
  PRUint32 mChangeStart;
  PRUint32 mChangeEnd;
  PRUint32 mReplaceLength;
};

/**
 * Mutation observer interface
 *
 * WARNING: During these notifications, you are not allowed to perform
 * any mutations to the current or any other document, or start a
 * network load.  If you need to perform such operations do that
 * during the _last_ nsIDocumentObserver::EndUpdate notification.  The
 * expection for this is ParentChainChanged, where mutations should be
 * done from an async event, as the notification might not be
 * surrounded by BeginUpdate/EndUpdate calls.
 */
class nsIMutationObserver : public nsISupports
{
public:
  NS_DECLARE_STATIC_IID_ACCESSOR(NS_IMUTATION_OBSERVER_IID)

  /**
   * Notification that the node value of a data node (text, cdata, pi, comment)
   * will be changed.
   *
   * This notification is not sent when a piece of content is
   * added/removed from the document (the other notifications are used
   * for that).
   *
   * @param aDocument The owner-document of aContent. Can be null.
   * @param aContent  The piece of content that changed. Is never null.
   * @param aInfo     The structure with information details about the change.
   */
  virtual void CharacterDataWillChange(nsIDocument *aDocument,
                                       nsIContent* aContent,
                                       CharacterDataChangeInfo* aInfo) = 0;

  /**
   * Notification that the node value of a data node (text, cdata, pi, comment)
   * has changed.
   *
   * This notification is not sent when a piece of content is
   * added/removed from the document (the other notifications are used
   * for that).
   *
   * @param aDocument The owner-document of aContent. Can be null.
   * @param aContent  The piece of content that changed. Is never null.
   * @param aInfo     The structure with information details about the change.
   */
  virtual void CharacterDataChanged(nsIDocument *aDocument,
                                    nsIContent* aContent,
                                    CharacterDataChangeInfo* aInfo) = 0;

  /**
   * Notification that an attribute of an element has changed.
   *
   * @param aDocument    The owner-document of aContent. Can be null.
   * @param aContent     The element whose attribute changed
   * @param aNameSpaceID The namespace id of the changed attribute
   * @param aAttribute   The name of the changed attribute
   * @param aModType     Whether or not the attribute was added, changed, or
   *                     removed. The constants are defined in
   *                     nsIDOMMutationEvent.h.
   * @param aStateMask If this attribute change caused content state changes,
   *                   the bits that changed.  Might be 0 if no bits changed.
   */
  virtual void AttributeChanged(nsIDocument* aDocument,
                                nsIContent*  aContent,
                                PRInt32      aNameSpaceID,
                                nsIAtom*     aAttribute,
                                PRInt32      aModType,
                                PRUint32     aStateMask) = 0;

  /**
   * Notification that one or more content nodes have been appended to the
   * child list of another node in the tree.
   *
   * @param aDocument  The owner-document of aContent. Can be null.
   * @param aContainer The container that had new children appended. Is never
   *                   null.
   * @param aNewIndexInContainer the index in the container of the first
   *                   new child
   */
  virtual void ContentAppended(nsIDocument *aDocument,
                               nsIContent* aContainer,
                               PRInt32     aNewIndexInContainer) = 0;

  /**
   * Notification that a content node has been inserted as child to another
   * node in the tree.
   *
   * @param aDocument  The owner-document of aContent, or, when aContainer
   *                   is null, the container that had the child inserted.
   *                   Can be null.
   * @param aContainer The container that had new a child inserted. Can be
   *                   null to indicate that the child was inserted into
   *                   aDocument
   * @param aChild     The newly inserted child.
   * @param aIndexInContainer The index in the container of the new child.
   */
  virtual void ContentInserted(nsIDocument *aDocument,
                               nsIContent* aContainer,
                               nsIContent* aChild,
                               PRInt32 aIndexInContainer) = 0;

  /**
   * Notification that a content node has been removed from the child list of
   * another node in the tree.
   *
   * @param aDocument  The owner-document of aContent, or, when aContainer
   *                   is null, the container that had the child removed.
   *                   Can be null.
   * @param aContainer The container that had new a child removed. Can be
   *                   null to indicate that the child was removed from
   *                   aDocument.
   * @param aChild     The child that was removed.
   * @param aIndexInContainer The index in the container which the child used
   *                          to have.
   */
  virtual void ContentRemoved(nsIDocument *aDocument,
                              nsIContent* aContainer,
                              nsIContent* aChild,
                              PRInt32 aIndexInContainer) = 0;

 /**
   * The node is in the process of being destroyed. Calling QI on the node is
   * not supported, however it is possible to get children and flags through
   * nsINode as well as calling IsNodeOfType(eCONTENT) and casting to
   * nsIContent to get attributes.
   *
   * NOTE: This notification is only called on observers registered directly
   * on the node. This is because when the node is destroyed it can not have
   * any ancestors. If you want to know when a descendant node is being
   * removed from the observed node, use the ContentRemoved notification.
   * 
   * @param aNode The node being destroyed.
   */
  virtual void NodeWillBeDestroyed(const nsINode *aNode) = 0;

  /**
   * Notification that the node's parent chain has changed. This
   * happens when either the node or one of its ancestors is inserted
   * or removed as a child of another node.
   *
   * Note that when a node is inserted this notification is sent to
   * all descendants of that node, since all such nodes have their
   * parent chain changed.
   *
   * @param aContent  The piece of content that had its parent changed.
   */

  virtual void ParentChainChanged(nsIContent *aContent) = 0;
};

NS_DEFINE_STATIC_IID_ACCESSOR(nsIMutationObserver, NS_IMUTATION_OBSERVER_IID)

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CHARACTERDATAWILLCHANGE                  \
    virtual void CharacterDataWillChange(nsIDocument* aDocument,             \
                                         nsIContent* aContent,               \
                                         CharacterDataChangeInfo* aInfo);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CHARACTERDATACHANGED                     \
    virtual void CharacterDataChanged(nsIDocument* aDocument,                \
                                      nsIContent* aContent,                  \
                                      CharacterDataChangeInfo* aInfo);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_ATTRIBUTECHANGED                         \
    virtual void AttributeChanged(nsIDocument* aDocument,                    \
                                  nsIContent* aContent,                      \
                                  PRInt32 aNameSpaceID,                      \
                                  nsIAtom* aAttribute,                       \
                                  PRInt32 aModType,                          \
                                  PRUint32 aStateMask);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CONTENTAPPENDED                          \
    virtual void ContentAppended(nsIDocument* aDocument,                     \
                                 nsIContent* aContainer,                     \
                                 PRInt32 aNewIndexInContainer);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CONTENTINSERTED                          \
    virtual void ContentInserted(nsIDocument* aDocument,                     \
                                 nsIContent* aContainer,                     \
                                 nsIContent* aChild,                         \
                                 PRInt32 aIndexInContainer);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CONTENTREMOVED                           \
    virtual void ContentRemoved(nsIDocument* aDocument,                      \
                                nsIContent* aContainer,                      \
                                nsIContent* aChild,                          \
                                PRInt32 aIndexInContainer);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_NODEWILLBEDESTROYED                      \
    virtual void NodeWillBeDestroyed(const nsINode* aNode);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_PARENTCHAINCHANGED                       \
    virtual void ParentChainChanged(nsIContent *aContent);

#define NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER                                          \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CHARACTERDATAWILLCHANGE                      \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CHARACTERDATACHANGED                         \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_ATTRIBUTECHANGED                             \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CONTENTAPPENDED                              \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CONTENTINSERTED                              \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CONTENTREMOVED                               \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_NODEWILLBEDESTROYED                          \
    NS_DECL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_PARENTCHAINCHANGED

#define NS_IMPL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CORE_STUB(_class)                     \
void                                                                      \
_class::NodeWillBeDestroyed(const nsINode* aNode)                               \
{                                                                         \
}

#define NS_IMPL_NSIMUTATIONOBSERVER_CONTENT(_class)                       \
void                                                                      \
_class::CharacterDataWillChange(nsIDocument* aDocument,                   \
                                nsIContent* aContent,                     \
                                CharacterDataChangeInfo* aInfo)           \
{                                                                         \
}                                                                         \
void                                                                      \
_class::CharacterDataChanged(nsIDocument* aDocument,                      \
                             nsIContent* aContent,                        \
                             CharacterDataChangeInfo* aInfo)              \
{                                                                         \
}                                                                         \
void                                                                      \
_class::AttributeChanged(nsIDocument* aDocument,                          \
                         nsIContent* aContent,                            \
                         PRInt32 aNameSpaceID,                            \
                         nsIAtom* aAttribute,                             \
                         PRInt32 aModType,                                \
                         PRUint32 aStateMask)                             \
{                                                                         \
}                                                                         \
void                                                                      \
_class::ContentAppended(nsIDocument* aDocument,                           \
                        nsIContent* aContainer,                           \
                        PRInt32 aNewIndexInContainer)                     \
{                                                                         \
}                                                                         \
void                                                                      \
_class::ContentInserted(nsIDocument* aDocument,                           \
                        nsIContent* aContainer,                           \
                        nsIContent* aChild,                               \
                        PRInt32 aIndexInContainer)                        \
{                                                                         \
}                                                                         \
void                                                                      \
_class::ContentRemoved(nsIDocument* aDocument,                            \
                       nsIContent* aContainer,                            \
                       nsIContent* aChild,                                \
                       PRInt32 aIndexInContainer)                         \
{                                                                         \
}                                                                         \
void                                                                      \
_class::ParentChainChanged(nsIContent *aContent)                          \
{                                                                         \
}


#endif /* nsIMutationObserver_h___ */