xpcom/io/nsIAsyncOutputStream.idl

Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100

author
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date
Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100
branch
TOR_BUG_9701
changeset 8
97036ab72558
permissions
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Conditionally force memory storage according to privacy.thirdparty.isolate;
This solves Tor bug #9701, complying with disk avoidance documented in
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#disk-avoidance.

     1 /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
     2  * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
     3  * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
     5 #include "nsIOutputStream.idl"
     7 interface nsIOutputStreamCallback;
     8 interface nsIEventTarget;
    10 /**
    11  * If an output stream is non-blocking, it may return NS_BASE_STREAM_WOULD_BLOCK
    12  * when written to.  The caller must then wait for the stream to become
    13  * writable.  If the stream implements nsIAsyncOutputStream, then the caller can
    14  * use this interface to request an asynchronous notification when the stream
    15  * becomes writable or closed (via the AsyncWait method).
    16  *
    17  * While this interface is almost exclusively used with non-blocking streams, it
    18  * is not necessary that nsIOutputStream::isNonBlocking return true.  Nor is it
    19  * necessary that a non-blocking nsIOutputStream implementation also implement
    20  * nsIAsyncOutputStream.
    21  */
    22 [scriptable, uuid(beb632d3-d77a-4e90-9134-f9ece69e8200)]
    23 interface nsIAsyncOutputStream : nsIOutputStream
    24 {
    25     /**
    26      * This method closes the stream and sets its internal status.  If the 
    27      * stream is already closed, then this method is ignored.  Once the stream
    28      * is closed, the stream's status cannot be changed.  Any successful status
    29      * code passed to this method is treated as NS_BASE_STREAM_CLOSED, which
    30      * is equivalent to nsIInputStream::close. 
    31      *
    32      * NOTE: this method exists in part to support pipes, which have both an 
    33      * input end and an output end.  If the output end of a pipe is closed, then
    34      * reads from the input end of the pipe will fail.  The error code returned 
    35      * when an attempt is made to read from a "closed" pipe corresponds to the
    36      * status code passed in when the output end of the pipe is closed, which
    37      * greatly simplifies working with pipes in some cases.
    38      *
    39      * @param aStatus
    40      *        The error that will be reported if this stream is accessed after
    41      *        it has been closed.
    42      */
    43     void closeWithStatus(in nsresult reason);
    45     /**
    46      * Asynchronously wait for the stream to be writable or closed.  The
    47      * notification is one-shot, meaning that each asyncWait call will result
    48      * in exactly one notification callback.  After the OnOutputStreamReady event
    49      * is dispatched, the stream releases its reference to the 
    50      * nsIOutputStreamCallback object.  It is safe to call asyncWait again from the
    51      * notification handler.
    52      *
    53      * This method may be called at any time (even if write has not been called).
    54      * In other words, this method may be called when the stream already has
    55      * room for more data.  It may also be called when the stream is closed.  If
    56      * the stream is already writable or closed when AsyncWait is called, then the
    57      * OnOutputStreamReady event will be dispatched immediately.  Otherwise, the
    58      * event will be dispatched when the stream becomes writable or closed.
    59      * 
    60      * @param aCallback
    61      *        This object is notified when the stream becomes ready.  This
    62      *        parameter may be null to clear an existing callback.
    63      * @param aFlags
    64      *        This parameter specifies optional flags passed in to configure
    65      *        the behavior of this method.  Pass zero to specify no flags.
    66      * @param aRequestedCount
    67      *        Wait until at least this many bytes can be written.  This is only
    68      *        a suggestion to the underlying stream; it may be ignored.  The
    69      *        caller may pass zero to indicate no preference.
    70      * @param aEventTarget
    71      *        Specify NULL to receive notification on ANY thread (possibly even
    72      *        recursively on the calling thread -- i.e., synchronously), or
    73      *        specify that the notification be delivered to a specific event
    74      *        target.
    75      */
    76     void asyncWait(in nsIOutputStreamCallback aCallback,
    77                    in unsigned long aFlags,
    78                    in unsigned long aRequestedCount,
    79                    in nsIEventTarget aEventTarget);
    81     /**
    82      * If passed to asyncWait, this flag overrides the default behavior,
    83      * causing the OnOutputStreamReady notification to be suppressed until the
    84      * stream becomes closed (either as a result of closeWithStatus/close being
    85      * called on the stream or possibly due to some error in the underlying
    86      * stream).
    87      */
    88     const unsigned long WAIT_CLOSURE_ONLY = (1<<0);
    89 };
    91 /**
    92  * This is a companion interface for nsIAsyncOutputStream::asyncWait.
    93  */
    94 [scriptable, uuid(40dbcdff-9053-42c5-a57c-3ec910d0f148)]
    95 interface nsIOutputStreamCallback : nsISupports
    96 {
    97     /**
    98      * Called to indicate that the stream is either writable or closed.
    99      *
   100      * @param aStream
   101      *        The stream whose asyncWait method was called.
   102      */
   103     void onOutputStreamReady(in nsIAsyncOutputStream aStream);
   104 };

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