/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
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 * The Original Code is the external XPT loader interface.
 *
 * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
 * Netscape Communications Corp.
 * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2002
 * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Contributor(s):
 *  John Bandhauer <jband@netscape.com>
 *  Alec Flett <alecf@netscape.com>
 *
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#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsILocalFile.idl"
#include "nsIInputStream.idl"

/**
 * Implement nsIXPTLoaderSink if you want to enumerate the entries in
 * an XPT archive of some kind
 */
[scriptable, uuid(6E48C500-8682-4730-ADD6-7DB693B9E7BA)]
interface nsIXPTLoaderSink : nsISupports {
    
    /**
     * called by the loader for each entry in the archive
     * @param itemName the name of this particular item in the archive
     * @param index the index of the item inthe archive
     * @param stream contains the contents of the xpt file
     */
    void foundEntry(in string itemName,
                    in long index,
                    in nsIInputStream xptData);
};

/**
 * The XPT loader interface: implemented by a loader to grab an input
 * stream which will be consumed by the interface loader.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(368A15D9-17A9-4c2b-AC3D-A35B3A22B876)]
interface nsIXPTLoader : nsISupports {
    /**
     * enumerate entries in the given archive
     * for each entry found, the loader will call the sink's
     * foundEntry() method with the appropriate information and a
     * stream that the consumer can read from
     * @param file the file to read from
     * @param sink an object which will be called with each file found
     *             in the file
     */
    void enumerateEntries(in nsILocalFile file,
                          in nsIXPTLoaderSink sink );

    /**
     * Load a specific entry from the archive
     * @param file the file to read from
     * @param name the name of the xpt within the file
     * @return an input stream that will read the raw xpt data from
     *         the file
     */
    nsIInputStream loadEntry(in nsILocalFile file,
                             in string name);
};


%{C++

// the first part of the contractID for any loader
// append the type of loader that you need, such as "zip"
#define NS_XPTLOADER_CONTRACTID_PREFIX \
   "@mozilla.org/xptinfo/loader;1&type="

%}

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