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1 /* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ |
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2 /* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */ |
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3 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public |
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4 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this |
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5 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ |
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6 |
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7 #include "nsISupports.idl" |
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8 |
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9 %{C++ |
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10 #include "nsDependentString.h" |
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11 %} |
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12 |
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13 interface nsIFile; |
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14 |
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15 /** |
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16 * A simple interface for writing to a .gz file. |
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17 * |
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18 * Note that the file that this interface produces has a different format than |
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19 * what you'd get if you compressed your data as a gzip stream and dumped the |
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20 * result to a file. |
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21 * |
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22 * The standard gunzip tool cannot decompress a raw gzip stream, but can handle |
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23 * the files produced by this interface. |
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24 */ |
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25 [scriptable, uuid(a256f26a-c603-459e-b5a4-53b4877f2cd8)] |
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26 interface nsIGZFileWriter : nsISupports |
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27 { |
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28 /** |
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29 * Initialize this object. We'll write our gzip'ed data to the given file, |
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30 * overwriting its contents if the file exists. |
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31 * |
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32 * init() will return an error if called twice. It's an error to call any |
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33 * other method on this interface without first calling init(). |
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34 */ |
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35 void init(in nsIFile file); |
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36 |
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37 /** |
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38 * Write the given string to the file. |
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39 */ |
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40 void write(in AUTF8String str); |
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41 |
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42 /* |
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43 * The following two overloads of Write() are C++ because we can't overload |
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44 * methods in XPIDL. Anyway, they don't add much functionality for JS |
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45 * callers. |
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46 */ |
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47 %{C++ |
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48 /** |
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49 * Write the given char* to the file (not including the null-terminator). |
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50 */ |
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51 nsresult Write(const char* str) |
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52 { |
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53 return Write(str, strlen(str)); |
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54 } |
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55 |
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56 /** |
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57 * Write |length| bytes of |str| to the file. |
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58 */ |
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59 nsresult Write(const char* str, uint32_t len) |
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60 { |
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61 return Write(nsDependentCString(str, len)); |
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62 } |
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63 %} |
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64 |
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65 /** |
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66 * Close this nsIGZFileWriter. Classes implementing nsIGZFileWriter will run |
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67 * this method when the underlying object is destroyed, so it's not strictly |
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68 * necessary to explicitly call it from your code. |
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69 * |
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70 * It's an error to call this method twice, and it's an error to call write() |
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71 * after finish() has been called. |
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72 */ |
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73 void finish(); |
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74 }; |