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/* 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
#include "nsISupports.idl"
interface nsIAsyncOutputStream;
interface nsIInputStream;
%{C++
#include "nsTArray.h"
namespace mozilla {
namespace net {
class PreferredAlternativeDataTypeParams;
}
} // namespace mozilla
%}
[ref] native ConstPreferredAlternativeDataTypeArray(const nsTArray<mozilla::net::PreferredAlternativeDataTypeParams>);
[scriptable, uuid(1fb8ccf2-5fa5-45ec-bc57-8c8022a5d0d3)]
interface nsIInputStreamReceiver : nsISupports
{
void onInputStreamReady(in nsIInputStream aStream);
};
[scriptable, builtinclass, uuid(72c34415-c6eb-48af-851f-772fa9ee5972)]
interface nsICacheInfoChannel : nsISupports
{
/**
* Get the number of times the cache entry has been opened. This attribute is
* equivalent to nsICachingChannel.cacheToken.fetchCount.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE if the cache entry or the alternate data
* cache entry cannot be read.
*/
readonly attribute uint32_t cacheTokenFetchCount;
/**
* Get expiration time from cache token. This attribute is equivalent to
* nsICachingChannel.cacheToken.expirationTime.
*/
readonly attribute uint32_t cacheTokenExpirationTime;
/**
* TRUE if this channel's data is being loaded from the cache. This value
* is undefined before the channel fires its OnStartRequest notification
* and after the channel fires its OnStopRequest notification.
*/
boolean isFromCache();
/**
* Returns true if the channel raced the cache and network requests.
* In order to determine if the response is coming from the cache or the
* network, the consumer can check isFromCache().
* The method can only be called after the channel fires its OnStartRequest
* notification.
*/
boolean isRacing();
/**
* The unique ID of the corresponding nsICacheEntry from which the response is
* retrieved. By comparing the returned value, we can judge whether the data
* of two distinct nsICacheInfoChannels is from the same nsICacheEntry. This
* scenario could be useful when verifying whether the alternative data from
* one nsICacheInfochannel matches the main data from another one.
*
* Note: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE is thrown when a nsICacheInfoChannel has no
* valid corresponding nsICacheEntry.
*/
uint64_t getCacheEntryId();
/**
* Set/get the cache key. This integer uniquely identifies the data in
* the cache for this channel.
*
* A cache key retrieved from a particular instance of nsICacheInfoChannel
* could be set on another instance of nsICacheInfoChannel provided the
* underlying implementations are compatible and provided the new
* channel instance was created with the same URI. The implementation of
* nsICacheInfoChannel would be expected to use the cache entry identified
* by the cache token. Depending on the value of nsIRequest::loadFlags,
* the cache entry may be validated, overwritten, or simply read.
*
* The cache key may be 0 indicating that the URI of the channel is
* sufficient to locate the same cache entry. Setting a 0 cache key
* is likewise valid.
*/
attribute unsigned long cacheKey;
/**
* Tells the channel to behave as if the LOAD_FROM_CACHE flag has been set,
* but without affecting the loads for the entire loadGroup in case of this
* channel being the default load group's channel.
*/
attribute boolean allowStaleCacheContent;
/**
* Tells the priority for LOAD_CACHE is raised over LOAD_BYPASS_CACHE or
* LOAD_BYPASS_LOCAL_CACHE in case those flags are set at the same time.
*/
attribute boolean preferCacheLoadOverBypass;
cenum PreferredAlternativeDataDeliveryType : 8 {
/**
* Do not deliver alternative data stream.
*/
NONE = 0,
/**
* Deliver alternative data stream upon additional request.
*/
ASYNC = 1,
/**
* Deliver alternative data stream during IPC parent/child serialization.
*/
SERIALIZE = 2,
};
/**
* Tells the channel to be force validated during soft reload.
*/
attribute boolean forceValidateCacheContent;
/**
* Calling this method instructs the channel to serve the alternative data
* if that was previously saved in the cache, otherwise it will serve the
* real data.
* @param type
* a string identifying the alt-data format
* @param contentType
* the contentType for which the preference applies.
* an empty contentType means the preference applies for ANY contentType
* @param deliverAltData
* if false, also if alt-data is available, the channel will deliver
* the original data.
*
* The method may be called several times, with different type and contentType.
*
* Must be called before AsyncOpen.
*/
void preferAlternativeDataType(in ACString type, in ACString contentType,
in nsICacheInfoChannel_PreferredAlternativeDataDeliveryType deliverAltData);
/**
* Get the preferred alternative data type set by preferAlternativeDataType().
* The returned types stand for the desired data type instead of the type of the
* information retrieved from the network stack.
*/
[noscript, notxpcom, nostdcall]
ConstPreferredAlternativeDataTypeArray preferredAlternativeDataTypes();
/**
* Holds the type of the alternative data representation that the channel
* is returning.
* Is empty string if no alternative data representation was requested, or
* if the requested representation wasn't found in the cache.
* Can only be called during or after OnStartRequest.
*/
readonly attribute ACString alternativeDataType;
/**
* If preferAlternativeDataType() has been called passing deliverAltData
* equal to false, this attribute will expose the alt-data inputStream if
* avaiable.
*/
readonly attribute nsIInputStream alternativeDataInputStream;
/**
* Sometimes when the channel is delivering alt-data, we may want to somehow
* access the original content too. This method asynchronously opens the
* input stream and delivers it to the receiver.
*/
void getOriginalInputStream(in nsIInputStreamReceiver aReceiver);
/**
* Opens and returns an output stream that a consumer may use to save an
* alternate representation of the data.
* Must be called after the OnStopRequest that delivered the real data.
* The consumer may choose to replace the saved alt representation.
* Opening the output stream will fail if there are any open input streams
* reading the already saved alt representation. After successfully opening
* an output stream, if there is an error before the entire alt data can be
* written successfully, the client must signal failure by passing an error
* code to CloseWithStatus().
*
* @param type
* type of the alternative data representation
* @param predictedSize
* Predicted size of the data that will be written. It's used to decide
* whether the resulting entry would exceed size limit, in which case
* an error is thrown. If the size isn't known in advance, -1 should be
* passed.
*/
nsIAsyncOutputStream openAlternativeOutputStream(in ACString type, in long long predictedSize);
};
%{ C++
namespace mozilla {
namespace net {
using PreferredAlternativeDataDeliveryTypeIPC = nsICacheInfoChannel::PreferredAlternativeDataDeliveryType;
}
} // namespace mozilla
%}