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/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/* 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,
*/
interface nsIFile;
/**
* IOUtils is a simple, efficient interface for performing file I/O from a
* privileged chrome-only context. All asynchronous I/O tasks are run on
* a background thread.
*
* Pending I/O tasks will block shutdown at the |profileBeforeChange| phase.
* During this shutdown phase, no additional I/O tasks will be accepted --
* method calls to this interface will reject once shutdown has entered this
* phase.
*
* IOUtils methods may reject for any number of reasons. Reasonable attempts
* have been made to map each common operating system error to a |DOMException|.
* Most often, a caller only needs to check if a given file wasn't found by
* catching the rejected error and checking if |ex.name === 'NotFoundError'|.
* In other cases, it is likely sufficient to allow the error to be caught and
* reported elsewhere.
*/
[ChromeOnly, Exposed=(Window, Worker)]
namespace IOUtils {
/**
* Reads up to |opts.maxBytes| of the file at |path| according to |opts|.
*
* NB: The maximum file size that can be read is UINT32_MAX.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
*
* @return Resolves with an array of unsigned byte values read from disk,
* otherwise rejects with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<Uint8Array> read(DOMString path, optional ReadOptions opts = {});
/**
* Reads the UTF-8 text file located at |path| and returns the decoded
* contents as a |DOMString|. If a UTF-8 byte order marker (BOM) is
* present, it will be stripped from the returned string.
*
* NB: The maximum file size that can be read is UINT32_MAX.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
*
* @return Resolves with the file contents encoded as a string, otherwise
* rejects with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<UTF8String> readUTF8(DOMString path, optional ReadUTF8Options opts = {});
/**
* Read the UTF-8 text file located at |path| and return the contents
* parsed as JSON into a JS value.
*
* NB: The maximum file size that can be read is UINT32_MAX.
*
* @param path An absolute path.
*
* @return Resolves with the contents of the file parsed as JSON.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<any> readJSON(DOMString path, optional ReadUTF8Options opts = {});
/**
* Attempts to safely write |data| to a file at |path|.
*
* This operation can be made atomic by specifying the |tmpPath| option. If
* specified, then this method ensures that the destination file is not
* modified until the data is entirely written to the temporary file, after
* which point the |tmpPath| is moved to the specified |path|.
*
* The target file can also be backed up to a |backupFile| before any writes
* are performed to prevent data loss in case of corruption.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
* @param data Data to write to the file at path.
*
* @return Resolves with the number of bytes successfully written to the file,
* otherwise rejects with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<unsigned long long> write(DOMString path, Uint8Array data, optional WriteOptions options = {});
/**
* Attempts to encode |string| to UTF-8, then safely write the result to a
* file at |path|. Works exactly like |write|.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
* @param string A string to write to the file at path.
* @param options Options for writing the file.
*
* @return Resolves with the number of bytes successfully written to the file,
* otherwise rejects with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<unsigned long long> writeUTF8(DOMString path, UTF8String string, optional WriteOptions options = {});
/**
* Attempts to serialize |value| into a JSON string and encode it as into a
* UTF-8 string, then safely write the result to a file at |path|. Works
* exactly like |write|.
*
* @param path An absolute file path
* @param value The value to be serialized.
* @param options Options for writing the file. The "append" mode is not supported.
*
* @return Resolves with the number of bytes successfully written to the file,
* otherwise rejects with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<unsigned long long> writeJSON(DOMString path, any value, optional WriteOptions options = {});
/**
* Moves the file from |sourcePath| to |destPath|, creating necessary parents.
* If |destPath| is a directory, then the source file will be moved into the
* destination directory.
*
* @param sourcePath An absolute file path identifying the file or directory
* to move.
* @param destPath An absolute file path identifying the destination
* directory and/or file name.
*
* @return Resolves if the file is moved successfully, otherwise rejects with
* a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> move(DOMString sourcePath, DOMString destPath, optional MoveOptions options = {});
/**
* Removes a file or directory at |path| according to |options|.
*
* @param path An absolute file path identifying the file or directory to
* remove.
*
* @return Resolves if the file is removed successfully, otherwise rejects
* with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> remove(DOMString path, optional RemoveOptions options = {});
/**
* Creates a new directory at |path| according to |options|.
*
* @param path An absolute file path identifying the directory to create.
*
* @return Resolves if the directory is created successfully, otherwise
* rejects with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> makeDirectory(DOMString path, optional MakeDirectoryOptions options = {});
/**
* Obtains information about a file, such as size, modification dates, etc.
*
* @param path An absolute file path identifying the file or directory to
* inspect.
*
* @return Resolves with a |FileInfo| object for the file at path, otherwise
* rejects with a DOMException.
*
* @see FileInfo
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<FileInfo> stat(DOMString path);
/**
* Copies a file or directory from |sourcePath| to |destPath| according to
* |options|.
*
* @param sourcePath An absolute file path identifying the source file to be
* copied.
* @param destPath An absolute file path identifying the location for the
* copy.
*
* @return Resolves if the file was copied successfully, otherwise rejects
* with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> copy(DOMString sourcePath, DOMString destPath, optional CopyOptions options = {});
/**
* Updates the access time for the file at |path|.
*
* @param path An absolute file path identifying the file whose
* modification time is to be set. This file must exist
* and will not be created.
* @param modification An optional access time for the file expressed in
* milliseconds since the Unix epoch
* (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z). The current system time is used
* if this parameter is not provided.
*
* @return Resolves with the updated access time time expressed in
* milliseconds since the Unix epoch, otherwise rejects with a
* DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<long long> setAccessTime(DOMString path, optional long long access);
/**
* Updates the modification time for the file at |path|.
*
* @param path An absolute file path identifying the file whose
* modification time is to be set. This file must exist
* and will not be created.
* @param modification An optional modification time for the file expressed in
* milliseconds since the Unix epoch
* (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z). The current system time is used
* if this parameter is not provided.
*
* @return Resolves with the updated modification time expressed in
* milliseconds since the Unix epoch, otherwise rejects with a
* DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<long long> setModificationTime(DOMString path, optional long long modification);
/**
* Retrieves a (possibly empty) list of immediate children of the directory at
* |path|.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
*
* @return Resolves with a sequence of absolute file paths representing the
* children of the directory at |path|, otherwise rejects with a
* DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<sequence<DOMString>> getChildren(DOMString path, optional GetChildrenOptions options = {});
/**
* Set the permissions of the file at |path|.
*
* Windows does not make a distinction between user, group, and other
* permissions like UNICES do. If a permission flag is set for any of user,
* group, or other has a permission, then all users will have that
* permission. Additionally, Windows does not support setting the
* "executable" permission.
*
* @param path An absolute file path
* @param permissions The UNIX file mode representing the permissions.
* @param honorUmask If omitted or true, any UNIX file mode value is
* modified by the process umask. If false, the exact value
* of UNIX file mode will be applied. This value has no effect
* on Windows.
*
* @return Resolves if the permissions were set successfully, otherwise
* rejects with a DOMException.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> setPermissions(DOMString path, unsigned long permissions, optional boolean honorUmask = true);
/**
* Return whether or not the file exists at the given path.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to whether or not the given file exists.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<boolean> exists(DOMString path);
/**
* Create a file with a unique name and return its path.
*
* @param parent An absolute path to the directory where the file is to be
* created.
* @param prefix A prefix for the filename.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to a unique filename.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<DOMString> createUniqueFile(DOMString parent, DOMString prefix, optional unsigned long permissions = 0644);
/**
* Create a directory with a unique name and return its path.
*
* @param parent An absolute path to the directory where the file is to be
* created.
* @param prefix A prefix for the directory name.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to a unique directory name.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<DOMString> createUniqueDirectory(DOMString parent, DOMString prefix, optional unsigned long permissions = 0755);
/**
* Compute the hash of a file as a hex digest.
*
* @param path The absolute path of the file to hash.
* @param method The hashing method to use.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to the hex digest of the file's hash in lowercase.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<UTF8String> computeHexDigest(DOMString path, HashAlgorithm method);
#if defined(XP_WIN)
/**
* Return the Windows-specific file attributes of the file at the given path.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to the Windows-specific file attributes.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<WindowsFileAttributes> getWindowsAttributes(DOMString path);
/**
* Set the Windows-specific file attributes of the file at the given path.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
* @param attrs The attributes to set. Attributes will only be set if they are
* |true| or |false| (i.e., |undefined| attributes are not
* changed).
*
* @return A promise that resolves is the attributes were set successfully.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> setWindowsAttributes(DOMString path, optional WindowsFileAttributes attrs = {});
#elif defined(XP_MACOSX)
/**
* Return whether or not the file has a specific extended attribute.
*
* @param path An absolute path.
* @param attr The attribute to check for.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to whether or not the file has an extended
* attribute, or rejects with an error.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<boolean> hasMacXAttr(DOMString path, UTF8String attr);
/**
* Return the value of an extended attribute for a file.
*
* @param path An absolute path.
* @param attr The attribute to get the value of.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to the value of the extended attribute, or
* rejects with an error.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<Uint8Array> getMacXAttr(DOMString path, UTF8String attr);
/**
* Set the extended attribute on a file.
*
* @param path An absolute path.
* @param attr The attribute to set.
* @param value The value of the attribute to set.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to whether or not the file has an extended
* attribute, or rejects with an error.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> setMacXAttr(DOMString path, UTF8String attr, Uint8Array value);
/**
* Delete the extended attribute on a file.
*
* @param path An absolute path.
* @param attr The attribute to delete.
*
* @return A promise that resolves if the attribute was deleted, or rejects
* with an error.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<undefined> delMacXAttr(DOMString path, UTF8String attr);
#endif
/**
* Return a nsIFile whose parent directory exists. The parent directory of the
* file will be created off main thread if it does not already exist.
*
* @param components The path components. The first component must be an
* absolute path.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to an nsIFile for the requested file.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<nsIFile> getFile(DOMString... components);
/**
* Return an nsIFile corresponding to a directory. It will be created
* off-main-thread if it does not already exist.
*
* @param components The path components. The first component must be an
* absolute path.
*
* @return A promise that resolves to an nsIFile for the requested directory.
*/
[NewObject]
Promise<nsIFile> getDirectory(DOMString... components);
};
[Exposed=Window]
partial namespace IOUtils {
/**
* The async shutdown client for the profile-before-change shutdown phase.
*/
[Throws]
readonly attribute any profileBeforeChange;
/**
* The async shutdown client for the profile-before-change-telemetry shutdown
* phase.
*
* ONLY telemetry should register blockers on this client.
*/
[Throws]
readonly attribute any sendTelemetry;
};
[Exposed=Worker]
partial namespace IOUtils {
/**
* Synchronously opens the file at |path|. This API is only available in workers.
*
* @param path An absolute file path.
*
* @return A |SyncReadFile| object for the file.
*/
[Throws]
SyncReadFile openFileForSyncReading(DOMString path);
#ifdef XP_UNIX
/**
* Launch a child process; uses `base::LaunchApp` from IPC. (This WebIDL
* binding is currently Unix-only; it could also be supported on Windows
* but it would use u16-based strings, so it would basically be a separate
* copy of the bindings.)
*
* This interface was added for use by `Subprocess.sys.mjs`; other would-be
* callers may want to just use Subprocess instead of calling this directly.
*
* @param argv The command to run and its arguments.
* @param options Various parameters about how the child process is launched
* and its initial environment.
*
* @return The process ID. Note that various errors (e.g., the
* executable to be launched doesn't exist) may not be
* encountered until after the process is created, so a
* successful return doesn't necessarily imply a successful
* launch.
*/
[Throws]
unsigned long launchProcess(sequence<UnixString> argv, LaunchOptions options);
#endif
};
/**
* An object representing an open file, allowing parts of the file contents to be
* read synchronously. Only available in workers.
*/
[ChromeOnly, Exposed=Worker]
interface SyncReadFile {
/**
* The file size, in bytes.
*/
readonly attribute long long size;
/**
* Synchronously read |dest.length| bytes at offset |offset| into |dest|.
* Throws if the file has been closed already or if the read would be out-of-bounds.
*
* @param dest A Uint8Array whose entire contents will be overwritten with
* bytes read from the file.
* @param offset The file offset at which the read range begins. (The length of the
* range is given by |dest.length|.)
*/
[Throws]
undefined readBytesInto(Uint8Array dest, long long offset);
/**
* Close the file. Subsequent calls to readBytesInto will throw.
* If the file is not closed manually, it will be closed once this object is GC'ed.
*/
undefined close();
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.readUTF8| method.
*/
dictionary ReadUTF8Options {
/**
* If true, this option indicates that the file to be read is compressed with
* LZ4-encoding, and should be decompressed before the data is returned to
* the caller.
*/
boolean decompress = false;
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.read| method.
*/
dictionary ReadOptions : ReadUTF8Options {
/**
* The offset into the file to read from. If unspecified, the file will be read
* from the start.
*/
unsigned long long offset = 0;
/**
* The max bytes to read from the file at path. If unspecified, the entire
* file will be read. This option is incompatible with |decompress|.
*/
unsigned long? maxBytes = null;
};
/**
* Modes for writing to a file.
*/
enum WriteMode {
/**
* Overwrite the contents of the file.
*
* The file will be created if it does not exist.
*/
"overwrite",
/**
* Append to the end of the file.
*
* This mode will refuse to create the file if it does not exist.
*/
"append",
/**
* Append to the end of the file, or create it if it does not exist.
*/
"appendOrCreate",
/**
* Create a new file.
*
* This mode will refuse to overwrite an existing file.
*/
"create",
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.write| and |writeUTF8|
* methods.
*/
dictionary WriteOptions {
/**
* If specified, backup the destination file to this path before writing.
*/
DOMString backupFile;
/**
* If specified, write the data to a file at |tmpPath| instead of directly to
* the destination. Once the write is complete, the destination will be
* overwritten by a move. Specifying this option will make the write a little
* slower, but also safer.
*/
DOMString tmpPath;
/**
* The mode used to write to the file.
*/
WriteMode mode = "overwrite";
/**
* If true, force the OS to write its internal buffers to the disk.
* This is considerably slower for the whole system, but safer in case of
* an improper system shutdown (e.g. due to a kernel panic) or device
* disconnection before the buffers are flushed.
*/
boolean flush = false;
/**
* If true, compress the data with LZ4-encoding before writing to the file.
*/
boolean compress = false;
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.move| method.
*/
dictionary MoveOptions {
/**
* If true, fail if the destination already exists.
*/
boolean noOverwrite = false;
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.remove| method.
*/
dictionary RemoveOptions {
/**
* If true, no error will be reported if the target file is missing.
*/
boolean ignoreAbsent = true;
/**
* If true, and the target is a directory, recursively remove files.
*/
boolean recursive = false;
/**
* If true, a failed delete on a readonly file will be retried by first
* removing the readonly attribute.
*
* Only has an effect on Windows.
*/
boolean retryReadonly = false;
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.makeDirectory| method.
*/
dictionary MakeDirectoryOptions {
/**
* If true, create the directory and all necessary ancestors if they do not
* already exist. If false and any ancestor directories do not exist,
* |makeDirectory| will reject with an error.
*/
boolean createAncestors = true;
/**
* If true, succeed even if the directory already exists (default behavior).
* Otherwise, fail if the directory already exists.
*/
boolean ignoreExisting = true;
/**
* The file mode to create the directory with.
*
* This is ignored on Windows.
*/
unsigned long permissions = 0755;
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.copy| method.
*/
dictionary CopyOptions {
/**
* If true, fail if the destination already exists.
*/
boolean noOverwrite = false;
/**
* If true, copy the source recursively.
*/
boolean recursive = false;
};
/**
* Options to be passed to the |IOUtils.getChildren| method.
*/
dictionary GetChildrenOptions {
/**
* If true, no error will be reported if the target file is missing.
*/
boolean ignoreAbsent = false;
};
/**
* Types of files that are recognized by the |IOUtils.stat| method.
*/
enum FileType { "regular", "directory", "other" };
/**
* Basic metadata about a file.
*/
dictionary FileInfo {
/**
* The absolute path to the file on disk, as known when this file info was
* obtained.
*/
DOMString path;
/**
* Identifies if the file at |path| is a regular file, directory, or something
* something else.
*/
FileType type;
/**
* If this represents a regular file, the size of the file in bytes.
* Otherwise, -1.
*/
long long size;
/**
* The timestamp of file creation, represented in milliseconds since Epoch
* (1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z).
*
* This is only available on MacOS and Windows.
*/
long long creationTime;
/**
* The timestmp of last file accesss, represented in milliseconds since Epoch
* (1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z).
*/
long long lastAccessed;
/**
* The timestamp of the last file modification, represented in milliseconds
* since Epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z).
*/
long long lastModified;
/**
* The permissions of the file, expressed as a UNIX file mode.
*
* NB: Windows does not make a distinction between user, group, and other
* permissions like UNICES do. The user, group, and other parts will always
* be identical on Windows.
*/
unsigned long permissions;
};
/**
* The supported hash algorithms for |IOUtils.hashFile|.
*/
enum HashAlgorithm { "sha256", "sha384", "sha512" };
#ifdef XP_WIN
/**
* Windows-specific file attributes.
*/
dictionary WindowsFileAttributes {
/**
* Whether or not the file is read-only.
*/
boolean readOnly;
/**
* Whether or not the file is hidden.
*/
boolean hidden;
/**
* Whether or not the file is classified as a system file.
*/
boolean system;
};
#endif
#ifdef XP_UNIX
/**
* Used where the POSIX API allows an arbitrary byte string but in
* practice it's usually UTF-8, so JS strings are accepted for
* convenience.
*/
typedef (UTF8String or Uint8Array) UnixString;
/**
* Options for the `launchApp` method. See also `base::LaunchOptions`
* in C++.
*/
dictionary LaunchOptions {
/**
* The environment variables, as a sequence of `NAME=value` strings.
* (The underlying C++ code can also inherit the current environment
* with optional changes; that feature could be added here if needed.)
*/
required sequence<UnixString> environment;
/**
* The initial current working directory.
*/
UnixString workdir;
/**
* File descriptors to pass to the child process. Any fds not
* mentioned here, other than stdin/out/err, will not be inherited
* even if they aren't marked close-on-exec.
*/
sequence<FdMapping> fdMap;
/**
* On macOS 10.14+, disclaims responsibility for the child process
* with respect to privacy/security permission prompts and
* decisions. Ignored if not supported by the OS.
*/
boolean disclaim = false;
};
/**
* Describes a file descriptor to give to the child process.
*/
dictionary FdMapping {
/**
* The fd in the parent process to pass. This must remain open during
* the call to `launchApp` but can be closed after it returns (or throws).
*/
required unsigned long src;
/**
* The fd number to map it to in the child process.
*/
required unsigned long dst;
};
#endif