gecko/netwerk/mime/public/nsIMIMEInfo.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIURI;
interface nsIFile;
interface nsIUTF8StringEnumerator;
interface nsIHandlerApp;
interface nsIMutableArray;

typedef long nsHandlerInfoAction;

/**
 * nsIHandlerInfo gives access to the information about how a given protocol
 * scheme or MIME-type is handled.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(4c7f5603-cfa9-4576-a769-c3343cb0135b)]
interface nsIHandlerInfo : nsISupports {
    /**
     * The type of this handler info.  For MIME handlers, this is the MIME type.
     * For protocol handlers, it's the scheme.
     * 
     * @return String representing the type.
     */
    readonly attribute ACString type;

    /**
     * A human readable description of the handler type
     */
    attribute AString description;

    /**
     * The application the user has said they want associated with this content
     * type. This is not always guaranteed to be set!!
     */
    attribute nsIHandlerApp preferredApplicationHandler;

    /**
     * Applications that can handle this content type.
     *
     * The list will include the preferred handler, if any.  Elements of this
     * array are nsIHandlerApp objects, and this attribute will always reference
     * an array, whether or not there are any possible handlers.  If there are
     * no possible handlers, the array will contain no elements, so just check
     * its length (nsIArray::length) to see if there are any possible handlers.
     */
    readonly attribute nsIMutableArray possibleApplicationHandlers;

    /**
     * Indicates whether a default application handler exists,
     * i.e. whether launchWithFile with action = useSystemDefault is possible
     * and defaultDescription will contain usable information.
     */
    readonly attribute boolean hasDefaultHandler;

    /**
     * A pretty name description of the associated default application. Only
     * usable if hasDefaultHandler is true.
     */
    readonly attribute AString defaultDescription;

    /**
     * Launches the application with the specified URI, in a way that
     * depends on the value of preferredAction. preferredAction must be
     * useHelperApp or useSystemDefault.
     *  
     * @note Only the URI scheme is used to determine how to launch.  This is
     * essentially a pass-by-value operation.  This means that in the case of
     * a file: URI, the handler that is registered for file: will be launched
     * and our code will not make any decision based on the content-type or
     * extension, though the invoked file: handler is free to do so. 
     *
     * @param aURI The URI to launch this application with
     *
     * @throw NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if action is not valid for this function.
     * Other exceptions may be thrown.
     */
    void launchWithURI(in nsIURI aURI);

    /**
     * preferredAction is how the user specified they would like to handle
     * this content type: save to disk, use specified helper app, use OS
     * default handler or handle using navigator; possible value constants
     * listed below
     */
    attribute nsHandlerInfoAction preferredAction;

    const long saveToDisk = 0;
    /**
     * Used to indicate that we know nothing about what to do with this.  You
     * could consider this to be not initialized.
     */
    const long alwaysAsk = 1;
    const long useHelperApp = 2;
    const long handleInternally = 3;
    const long useSystemDefault = 4;

    /**
     * alwaysAskBeforeHandling: if true, we should always give the user a
     * dialog asking how to dispose of this content.
     */
    attribute boolean alwaysAskBeforeHandling;
};

/**
 * nsIMIMEInfo extends nsIHandlerInfo with a bunch of information specific to
 * MIME content-types. There is a one-to-many relationship between MIME types
 * and file extensions. This means that a MIMEInfo object may have multiple
 * file extensions associated with it.  However, the reverse is not true.
 *
 * MIMEInfo objects are generally retrieved from the MIME Service
 * @see nsIMIMEService
 */
[scriptable, uuid(a4011016-81a1-47d9-b01e-19a2272ae89b)]
interface nsIMIMEInfo : nsIHandlerInfo {
    /**
     * Gives you an array of file types associated with this type.
     *
     * @return Number of elements in the array.
     * @return Array of extensions.
     */
    nsIUTF8StringEnumerator getFileExtensions();

    /**
     * Set File Extensions. Input is a comma delimited list of extensions.
     */
    void setFileExtensions(in AUTF8String aExtensions);
 
    /**
     * Returns whether or not the given extension is
     * associated with this MIME info.
     *
     * @return TRUE if the association exists. 
     */
    boolean extensionExists(in AUTF8String aExtension);

    /**
     * Append a given extension to the set of extensions
     */
    void appendExtension(in AUTF8String aExtension);

    /**
     * Returns the first extension association in
     * the internal set of extensions.
     *
     * @return The first extension.
     */
    attribute AUTF8String primaryExtension;
    
    /**
     * The MIME type of this MIMEInfo.
     * 
     * @return String representing the MIME type.
     * 
     * @deprecated  use nsIHandlerInfo::type instead.
     */
    readonly attribute ACString MIMEType;

    /**
     * Mac Type and creator types
     */
    attribute PRUint32 macType;
    attribute PRUint32 macCreator;

    /**
     * Returns whether or not these two nsIMIMEInfos are logically
     * equivalent.
     *
     * @returns PR_TRUE if the two are considered equal
     */
    boolean equals(in nsIMIMEInfo aMIMEInfo);

    /**
     * Launches the application with the specified file, in a way that
     * depends on the value of preferredAction. preferredAction must be
     * useHelperApp or useSystemDefault.
     *
     * @param aFile The file to launch this application with.
     *
     * @throw NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if action is not valid for this function.
     * Other exceptions may be thrown.
     */
    void launchWithFile(in nsIFile aFile);
};

/**
 * nsIHandlerApp represents an external application that can handle content
 * of some sort (either a MIME-type or a protocol).  Note that for theoretical
 * cleanliness, nsI{Local,Web}HandlerApp really ought to inherit from
 * nsIHandlerApp.  After that's done, we should also try and make
 * nsIWebContentHandlerInfo inherit from or possibly be replaced by
 * nsIWebHandlerApp.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(08a543dc-081f-4933-b325-252cf68d6ad9)]
interface nsIHandlerApp : nsISupports {

    /**
     * Human readable name for the handler
     */
    attribute AString name;
};

/**
 * nsILocalHandlerApp is a local OS-level executable
 */
[scriptable, uuid(9812be73-273c-478c-8170-c3e0db08ae7c)]
interface nsILocalHandlerApp : nsIHandlerApp {

    /**
     * Pointer to the executable file used to handle content
     */
    attribute nsIFile executable;
};

/**
 * nsIWebHandlerApp is a web-based handler, as speced by the WhatWG HTML5
 * draft.  Currently, only GET-based handlers are supported.  At some point, 
 * we probably want to work with WhatWG to spec out and implement POST-based
 * handlers as well.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(7521a093-c498-45ce-b462-df7ba0d882f6)]
interface nsIWebHandlerApp : nsIHandlerApp {

    /**
     * Template used to construct the URI to GET.  Template is expected to have
     * a %s in it, and the escaped URI to be handled is inserted in place of 
     * that %s, as per the HTML5 spec.
     */
    attribute AUTF8String uriTemplate;
};