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#include "nsISupports.idl"
interface nsIURIContentListener;
interface nsIURI;
interface nsILoadGroup;
interface nsIProgressEventSink;
interface nsIChannel;
interface nsIRequest;
interface nsIStreamListener;
interface nsIInputStream;
interface nsIInterfaceRequestor;
/**
* The uri dispatcher is responsible for taking uri's, determining
* the content and routing the opened url to the correct content
* handler.
*
* When you encounter a url you want to open, you typically call
* openURI, passing it the content listener for the window the uri is
* originating from. The uri dispatcher opens the url to discover the
* content type. It then gives the content listener first crack at
* handling the content. If it doesn't want it, the dispatcher tries
* to hand it off one of the registered content listeners. This allows
* running applications the chance to jump in and handle the content.
*
* If that also fails, then the uri dispatcher goes to the registry
* looking for the preferred content handler for the content type
* of the uri. The content handler may create an app instance
* or it may hand the contents off to a platform specific plugin
* or helper app. Or it may hand the url off to an OS registered
* application.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(2f7e8051-f1c9-4bcc-8584-9cfd5849e343)]
interface nsIURILoader : nsISupports
{
/**
* @name Flags for opening URIs.
*/
/* @{ */
/**
* Should the content be displayed in a container that prefers the
* content-type, or will any container do.
*/
const unsigned long IS_CONTENT_PREFERRED = 1 << 0;
/**
* If this flag is set, only the listener of the specified window context will
* be considered for content handling; if it refuses the load, an error will
* be indicated.
*/
const unsigned long DONT_RETARGET = 1 << 1;
/* @} */
/**
* As applications such as messenger and the browser are instantiated,
* they register content listener's with the uri dispatcher corresponding
* to content windows within that application.
*
* Note to self: we may want to optimize things a bit more by requiring
* the content types the registered content listener cares about.
*
* @param aContentListener
* The listener to register. This listener must implement
* nsISupportsWeakReference.
*
* @see the nsIURILoader class description
*/
void registerContentListener (in nsIURIContentListener aContentListener);
void unRegisterContentListener (in nsIURIContentListener aContentListener);
/**
* OpenURI requires the following parameters.....
* @param aChannel
* The channel that should be opened. This must not be asyncOpen'd yet!
* If a loadgroup is set on the channel, it will get replaced with a
* different one.
* @param aIsContentPreferred
* Should the content be displayed in a container that prefers the
* content-type, or will any container do.
* @param aWindowContext
* If you are running the url from a doc shell or a web shell, this is
* your window context. If you have a content listener you want to
* give first crack to, the uri loader needs to be able to get it
* from the window context. We will also be using the window context
* to get at the progress event sink interface.
* <b>Must not be null!</b>
*/
void openURI(in nsIChannel aChannel,
in boolean aIsContentPreferred,
in nsIInterfaceRequestor aWindowContext);
/**
* Loads data from a channel. This differs from openURI in that the channel
* may already be opened, and that it returns a stream listener into which the
* caller should pump data. The caller is responsible for opening the channel
* and pumping the channel's data into the returned stream listener.
*
* Note: If the channel already has a loadgroup, it will be replaced with the
* window context's load group, or null if the context doesn't have one.
*
* If the window context's nsIURIContentListener refuses the load immediately
* (e.g. in nsIURIContentListener::onStartURIOpen), this method will return
* NS_ERROR_WONT_HANDLE_CONTENT. At that point, the caller should probably
* cancel the channel if it's already open (this method will not cancel the
* channel).
*
* If flags include DONT_RETARGET, and the content listener refuses the load
* during onStartRequest (e.g. in canHandleContent/isPreferred), then the
* returned stream listener's onStartRequest method will return
* NS_ERROR_WONT_HANDLE_CONTENT.
*
* @param aChannel
* The channel that should be loaded. The channel may already be
* opened. It must not be closed (i.e. this must be called before the
* channel calls onStopRequest on its stream listener).
* @param aFlags
* Combination (bitwise OR) of the flags specified above. 0 indicates
* default handling.
* @param aWindowContext
* If you are running the url from a doc shell or a web shell, this is
* your window context. If you have a content listener you want to
* give first crack to, the uri loader needs to be able to get it
* from the window context. We will also be using the window context
* to get at the progress event sink interface.
* <b>Must not be null!</b>
*/
nsIStreamListener openChannel(in nsIChannel aChannel,
in unsigned long aFlags,
in nsIInterfaceRequestor aWindowContext);
/**
* Stops an in progress load
*/
void stop(in nsISupports aLoadCookie);
};