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1 /* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
2 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
3 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
4 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
5
6 #include "nsIURI.idl"
7
8 /**
9 * The nsIURL interface provides convenience methods that further
10 * break down the path portion of nsIURI:
11 *
12 * http://host/directory/fileBaseName.fileExtension?query
13 * http://host/directory/fileBaseName.fileExtension#ref
14 * \ \ /
15 * \ -----------------------
16 * \ | /
17 * \ fileName /
18 * ----------------------------
19 * |
20 * filePath
21 */
22 [scriptable, uuid(1419aa16-f134-4154-9886-00c7c5147a13)]
23 interface nsIURL : nsIURI
24 {
25 /*************************************************************************
26 * The URL path is broken down into the following principal components:
27 */
28
29 /**
30 * Returns a path including the directory and file portions of a
31 * URL. For example, the filePath of "http://host/foo/bar.html#baz"
32 * is "/foo/bar.html".
33 *
34 * Some characters may be escaped.
35 */
36 attribute AUTF8String filePath;
37
38 /**
39 * Returns the query portion (the part after the "?") of the URL.
40 * If there isn't one, an empty string is returned.
41 *
42 * Some characters may be escaped.
43 */
44 attribute AUTF8String query;
45
46
47 /*************************************************************************
48 * The URL filepath is broken down into the following sub-components:
49 */
50
51 /**
52 * Returns the directory portion of a URL. If the URL denotes a path to a
53 * directory and not a file, e.g. http://host/foo/bar/, then the Directory
54 * attribute accesses the complete /foo/bar/ portion, and the FileName is
55 * the empty string. If the trailing slash is omitted, then the Directory
56 * is /foo/ and the file is bar (i.e. this is a syntactic, not a semantic
57 * breakdown of the Path). And hence don't rely on this for something to
58 * be a definitely be a file. But you can get just the leading directory
59 * portion for sure.
60 *
61 * Some characters may be escaped.
62 */
63 attribute AUTF8String directory;
64
65 /**
66 * Returns the file name portion of a URL. If the URL denotes a path to a
67 * directory and not a file, e.g. http://host/foo/bar/, then the Directory
68 * attribute accesses the complete /foo/bar/ portion, and the FileName is
69 * the empty string. Note that this is purely based on searching for the
70 * last trailing slash. And hence don't rely on this to be a definite file.
71 *
72 * Some characters may be escaped.
73 */
74 attribute AUTF8String fileName;
75
76
77 /*************************************************************************
78 * The URL filename is broken down even further:
79 */
80
81 /**
82 * Returns the file basename portion of a filename in a url.
83 *
84 * Some characters may be escaped.
85 */
86 attribute AUTF8String fileBaseName;
87
88 /**
89 * Returns the file extension portion of a filename in a url. If a file
90 * extension does not exist, the empty string is returned.
91 *
92 * Some characters may be escaped.
93 */
94 attribute AUTF8String fileExtension;
95
96 /**
97 * This method takes a uri and compares the two. The common uri portion
98 * is returned as a string. The minimum common uri portion is the
99 * protocol, and any of these if present: login, password, host and port
100 * If no commonality is found, "" is returned. If they are identical, the
101 * whole path with file/ref/etc. is returned. For file uris, it is
102 * expected that the common spec would be at least "file:///" since '/' is
103 * a shared common root.
104 *
105 * Examples:
106 * this.spec aURIToCompare.spec result
107 * 1) http://mozilla.org/ http://www.mozilla.org/ ""
108 * 2) http://foo.com/bar/ ftp://foo.com/bar/ ""
109 * 3) http://foo.com:8080/ http://foo.com/bar/ ""
110 * 4) ftp://user@foo.com/ ftp://user:pw@foo.com/ ""
111 * 5) ftp://foo.com/bar/ ftp://foo.com/bar ftp://foo.com/
112 * 6) ftp://foo.com/bar/ ftp://foo.com/bar/b.html ftp://foo.com/bar/
113 * 7) http://foo.com/a.htm#i http://foo.com/b.htm http://foo.com/
114 * 8) ftp://foo.com/c.htm#i ftp://foo.com/c.htm ftp://foo.com/c.htm
115 * 9) file:///a/b/c.html file:///d/e/c.html file:///
116 */
117 AUTF8String getCommonBaseSpec(in nsIURI aURIToCompare);
118
119 /**
120 * This method tries to create a string which specifies the location of the
121 * argument relative to |this|. If the argument and |this| are equal, the
122 * method returns "". If any of the URIs' scheme, host, userpass, or port
123 * don't match, the method returns the full spec of the argument.
124 *
125 * Examples:
126 * this.spec aURIToCompare.spec result
127 * 1) http://mozilla.org/ http://www.mozilla.org/ http://www.mozilla.org/
128 * 2) http://mozilla.org/ http://www.mozilla.org http://www.mozilla.org/
129 * 3) http://foo.com/bar/ http://foo.com:80/bar/ ""
130 * 4) http://foo.com/ http://foo.com/a.htm#b a.html#b
131 * 5) http://foo.com/a/b/ http://foo.com/c ../../c
132 */
133 AUTF8String getRelativeSpec(in nsIURI aURIToCompare);
134
135 };

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