RetroZilla/rdf/base/idl/nsIRDFService.idl
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#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsIRDFResource.idl"
#include "nsIRDFLiteral.idl"
#include "nsIRDFDataSource.idl"
// The RDF service interface. This is a singleton object, and should be
// obtained from the <tt>nsServiceManager</tt>.
[scriptable, uuid(BFD05261-834C-11d2-8EAC-00805F29F370)]
interface nsIRDFService : nsISupports {
// Construct an RDF resource from a single-byte URI. <tt>nsIRDFSerivce</tt>
// caches resources that are in-use, so multiple calls to <tt>GetResource()</tt>
// for the same <tt>uri</tt> will return identical pointers. FindResource
// is used to find out whether there already exists a resource corresponding to that url.
nsIRDFResource GetResource(in AUTF8String aURI);
// Construct an RDF resource from a Unicode URI. This is provided
// as a convenience method, allowing automatic, in-line C++
// conversion from <tt>nsString</tt> objects. The <tt>uri</tt> will
// be converted to a single-byte representation internally.
nsIRDFResource GetUnicodeResource(in AString aURI);
nsIRDFResource GetAnonymousResource();
// Construct an RDF literal from a Unicode string.
nsIRDFLiteral GetLiteral(in wstring aValue);
// Construct an RDF literal from a PRTime.
nsIRDFDate GetDateLiteral(in long long aValue);
// Construct an RDF literal from an int.
nsIRDFInt GetIntLiteral(in long aValue);
// Construct an RDF literal from a data blob
[noscript] nsIRDFBlob getBlobLiteral(in const_octet_ptr aValue, in long aLength);
boolean IsAnonymousResource(in nsIRDFResource aResource);
// Registers a resource with the RDF system, making it unique w.r.t.
// GetResource.
//
// An implementation of nsIRDFResource should call this in its
// Init() method if it wishes the resource to be globally unique
// (which is usually the case).
//
// NOTE that the resource will <i>not</i> be ref-counted by the
// RDF service: the assumption is that the resource implementation
// will call nsIRDFService::UnregisterResource() when the last
// reference to the resource is released.
//
// NOTE that the nsIRDFService implementation may choose to
// maintain a reference to the resource's URI; therefore, the
// resource implementation should ensure that the resource's URI
// (accessable via nsIRDFResource::GetValue(const char* *aURI)) is
// valid before calling RegisterResource(). Furthermore, the
// resource implementation should ensure that this pointer
// <i>remains</i> valid for the lifetime of the resource. (The
// implementation of the resource cache in nsIRDFService uses the
// URI maintained "internally" in the resource as a key into the
// cache rather than copying the resource URI itself.)
void RegisterResource(in nsIRDFResource aResource, in boolean aReplace);
// Called to notify the resource manager that a resource is no
// longer in use. This method should only be called from the
// destructor of a "custom" resource implementation to notify the
// RDF service that the last reference to the resource has been
// released, so the resource is no longer valid.
//
// NOTE. As mentioned in nsIRDFResourceFactory::CreateResource(),
// the RDF service will use the result of
// nsIRDFResource::GetValue() as a key into its cache. For this
// reason, you must always un-cache the resource <b>before</b>
// releasing the storage for the <tt>const char*</tt> URI.
void UnregisterResource(in nsIRDFResource aResource);
// Register a <i>named data source</i>. The RDF service will call
// <tt>nsIRDFDataSource::GetURI()</tt> to determine the URI under
// which to register the data source.
//
// Note that the data source will <i>not</i> be refcounted by the
// RDF service! The assumption is that an RDF data source
// registers with the service once it is initialized (via
// <tt>nsIRDFDataSource::Init()</tt>), and unregisters when the
// last reference to the data source is released.
void RegisterDataSource(in nsIRDFDataSource aDataSource,
in boolean aReplace);
// Unregister a <i>named data source</i>. The RDF service will call
// <tt>nsIRDFDataSource::GetURI()</tt> to determine the URI under which the
// data source was registered.
void UnregisterDataSource(in nsIRDFDataSource aDataSource);
// Get the <i>named data source</i> corresponding to the URI. If a data
// source has been registered via <tt>RegisterDataSource()</tt>, that
// data source will be returned.
//
// If no data source is currently
// registered for the specified URI, and a data source <i>constructor</i>
// function has been registered via <tt>RegisterDatasourceConstructor()</tt>,
// the RDF service will call the constructor to attempt to construct a
// new data source. If construction is successful, the data source will
// be initialized via <tt>nsIRDFDataSource::Init()</tt>.
nsIRDFDataSource GetDataSource(in string aURI);
// Same as GetDataSource, but if a remote/XML data source needs to be
// constructed, then this method will issue a <b>blocking</b> Refresh
// call on that data source.
nsIRDFDataSource GetDataSourceBlocking(in string aURI);
};
%{C++
extern nsresult
NS_NewRDFService(nsIRDFService** result);
%}