gecko/dom/interfaces/base/nsIStructuredCloneContainer.idl
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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
* vim: set ts=8 sw=2 et tw=80:
*
* 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"
interface nsIVariant;
interface nsIDocument;
%{C++
struct JSContext;
%}
/**
* This interface acts as a container for an object serialized using the
* structured clone algorithm.
*
* You can copy an object into an nsIStructuredCloneContainer using
* initFromVariant or initFromBase64. It's an error to initialize an
* nsIStructuredCloneContainer more than once.
*
* Once you've initialized the container, you can get a copy of the object it
* stores by calling deserializeToVariant. You can also get a base-64-encoded
* string containing a copy of the container's serialized data, using
* getDataAsBase64.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(400a282d-7157-4ed0-85b4-8bdc2fa634cd)]
interface nsIStructuredCloneContainer : nsISupports
{
/**
* Initialize this structured clone container so it contains a clone of the
* given variant. aData must be backed by a jsval.
*/
[implicit_jscontext]
void initFromVariant(in nsIVariant aData);
/**
* Initialize this structured clone container from a base-64-encoded byte
* stream, stored in aData. aFormatVersion should be the version of the
* structured clone algorithm which was used to generate aData.
*/
[implicit_jscontext]
void initFromBase64(in AString aData,in unsigned long aFormatVersion);
/**
* Deserialize the object this conatiner holds, returning it wrapped as
* an nsIVariant.
*/
[implicit_jscontext]
nsIVariant deserializeToVariant();
/**
* Get this structured clone container's data as a base-64-encoded string.
*/
AString getDataAsBase64();
/**
* Get the size in bytes of this container's serialized data.
*/
readonly attribute unsigned long long serializedNBytes;
/**
* Get the version of the structured clone algorithm which was used to
* generate this container's serialized buffer.
*/
readonly attribute unsigned long formatVersion;
};