gecko/xpcom/threads/nsIEventTarget.idl

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* vim:set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et cindent: */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsIRunnable.idl"
%{C++
#include "nsCOMPtr.h"
#include "mozilla/AlreadyAddRefed.h"
%}
native alreadyAddRefed_nsIRunnable(already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable>&&);
[scriptable, uuid(f9d60700-e6dc-4a72-9537-689058655472)]
interface nsIEventTarget : nsISupports
{
/* until we can get rid of all uses, keep the non-alreadyAddRefed<> version */
/**
* This must be non-virtual due to issues with MSVC 2013's ordering of
* vtbls for overloads. With other platforms we can leave this virtual
* and avoid adding lots of Dispatch() methods to classes inheriting this.
*/
%{C++
nsresult Dispatch(nsIRunnable* aEvent, uint32_t aFlags) {
return Dispatch(nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable>(aEvent).forget(), aFlags);
}
%}
/**
* This flag specifies the default mode of event dispatch, whereby the event
* is simply queued for later processing. When this flag is specified,
* dispatch returns immediately after the event is queued.
*/
const unsigned long DISPATCH_NORMAL = 0;
/**
* This flag specifies the synchronous mode of event dispatch, in which the
* dispatch method does not return until the event has been processed.
*
* NOTE: passing this flag to dispatch may have the side-effect of causing
* other events on the current thread to be processed while waiting for the
* given event to be processed.
*/
const unsigned long DISPATCH_SYNC = 1;
/**
* Check to see if this event target is associated with the current thread.
*
* @returns
* A boolean value that if "true" indicates that events dispatched to this
* event target will run on the current thread (i.e., the thread calling
* this method).
*/
boolean isOnCurrentThread();
/**
* Dispatch an event to this event target. This function may be called from
* any thread, and it may be called re-entrantly.
*
* @param event
* The alreadyAddRefed<> event to dispatch.
* NOTE that the event will be leaked if it fails to dispatch. Also note
* that if "flags" includes DISPATCH_SYNC, it may return error from Run()
* after a successful dispatch. In that case, the event is not leaked.
* @param flags
* The flags modifying event dispatch. The flags are described in detail
* below.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG
* Indicates that event is null.
* @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
* Indicates that the thread is shutting down and has finished processing
* events, so this event would never run and has not been dispatched.
*/
[noscript, binaryname(Dispatch)] void dispatchFromC(in alreadyAddRefed_nsIRunnable event, in unsigned long flags);
/**
* Version of Dispatch to expose to JS, which doesn't require an alreadyAddRefed<>
* (it will be converted to that internally)
*
* @param event
* The (raw) event to dispatch.
* @param flags
* The flags modifying event dispatch. The flags are described in detail
* below.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG
* Indicates that event is null.
* @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
* Indicates that the thread is shutting down and has finished processing
* events, so this event would never run and has not been dispatched.
*/
[binaryname(DispatchFromScript)] void dispatch(in nsIRunnable event, in unsigned long flags);
};
%{C++
// convenient aliases:
#define NS_DISPATCH_NORMAL nsIEventTarget::DISPATCH_NORMAL
#define NS_DISPATCH_SYNC nsIEventTarget::DISPATCH_SYNC
%}