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#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsrootidl.idl"

interface nsIFile;
interface nsISimpleEnumerator;

/**
 * The nsIFastLoadFileControl interface and its subinterfaces are mix-ins for
 * classes implementing nsIObjectInputStream and nsIObjectOutputStream, so that
 * those stream types can be used with nsIFastLoadService to access and compute
 * FastLoad file checksums, update and check FastLoad file dependencies, and
 * multiplex documents loaded via non-blocking i/o.
 *
 * If an nsIObjectInputStream class doesn't support nsIFastLoadReadControl, or
 * an nsIObjectOutputStream class doesn't support nsIFastLoadWriteControl, that
 * implementation may still be useful for object serialization, but it can't be
 * used to read or write a Mozilla FastLoad file.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(e7c8c14f-c273-4e70-826f-b85864303dc6)]
interface nsIFastLoadFileControl : nsISupports
{
    /**
     * Get the recorded checksum value from the FastLoad file header.
     */
    readonly attribute PRUint32 checksum;

    /**
     * Multiplexed document control methods.  A FastLoad file may contain
     * multiple interleaved documents identified by a URI specifier string,
     * and indexed for fast multiplexor select by an opaque URI object key.
     * You StartMuxedDocument when initiating a document load, then Select
     * before every batch of calls to (de)serialize document data, and End
     * when the load completes.
     *
     * Document multiplexing is necessary to support incremental FastLoad
     * development in a non-blocking i/o architecture such as Mozilla, where
     * some (but not all, at first, or for a while during development) of the
     * results of parsing and compiling various inputs can be multiplexed to
     * or from a FastLoad file.
     *
     * Note: Select returns the previously selected URI object in case the
     * caller is synchronously selecting and writing data to the FastLoad
     * file, so the caller can reselect the previous URI and return to code
     * the continues to write FastLoad data for the previous URI, unaware of
     * the nested select/write/reselect.
     */
    void        startMuxedDocument(in nsISupports aURI, in string aURISpec);
    nsISupports selectMuxedDocument(in nsISupports aURI);
    void        endMuxedDocument(in nsISupports aURI);

    /**
     * Return true if aURISpec identifies a muxed document in the FastLoad
     * file, false otherwise.
     */
    boolean     hasMuxedDocument(in string aURISpec);
};

[scriptable, uuid(7604429c-6090-40fe-a87b-928221a1ca67)]
interface nsIFastLoadReadControl : nsIFastLoadFileControl
{
    /**
     * Computes the correct checksum of the FastLoad file, independent of the
     * header's checksum value.  The header checksum field is treated as zero
     * when computing the checksum.
     */
    PRUint32 computeChecksum();

    /**
     * Get the collection of dependency nsIFile instances recorded during the
     * FastLoad file write or read/update process, and checked during the read
     * process to invalidate the FastLoad file if any dependencies are newer.
     */
    readonly attribute nsISimpleEnumerator dependencies;
};

[scriptable, uuid(3dbdca8f-0631-4826-a29c-8aba1deea09d)]
interface nsIFastLoadWriteControl : nsIFastLoadFileControl
{
    /**
     * Add a file dependency of the FastLoad file (e.g., a .jar file) to the
     * set of dependencies that trigger regeneration if any dependency has a
     * last-modified-time greater than the FastLoad file's mtime.
     */
    void addDependency(in nsIFile aFile);
};
