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diff --git a/netwerk/test/httpserver/nsIHttpServer.idl b/netwerk/test/httpserver/nsIHttpServer.idl new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a2866485a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/netwerk/test/httpserver/nsIHttpServer.idl @@ -0,0 +1,624 @@ +/* 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 + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ + +#include "nsISupports.idl" + +interface nsIInputStream; +interface nsIFile; +interface nsIOutputStream; +interface nsISimpleEnumerator; + +interface nsIHttpServer; +interface nsIHttpServerStoppedCallback; +interface nsIHttpRequestHandler; +interface nsIHttpRequest; +interface nsIHttpResponse; +interface nsIHttpServerIdentity; + +/** + * An interface which represents an HTTP server. + */ +[scriptable, uuid(cea8812e-faa6-4013-9396-f9936cbb74ec)] +interface nsIHttpServer : nsISupports +{ + /** + * Starts up this server, listening upon the given port. + * + * @param port + * the port upon which listening should happen, or -1 if no specific port is + * desired + * @throws NS_ERROR_ALREADY_INITIALIZED + * if this server is already started + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if the server is not started and cannot be started on the desired port + * (perhaps because the port is already in use or because the process does + * not have privileges to do so) + * @note + * Behavior is undefined if this method is called after stop() has been + * called on this but before the provided callback function has been + * called. + */ + void start(in long port); + + /** + * Shuts down this server if it is running (including the period of time after + * stop() has been called but before the provided callback has been called). + * + * @param callback + * an asynchronous callback used to notify the user when this server is + * stopped and all pending requests have been fully served + * @throws NS_ERROR_NULL_POINTER + * if callback is null + * @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED + * if this server is not running + */ + void stop(in nsIHttpServerStoppedCallback callback); + + /** + * Associates the local file represented by the string file with all requests + * which match request. + * + * @param path + * the path which is to be mapped to the given file; must begin with "/" and + * be a valid URI path (i.e., no query string, hash reference, etc.) + * @param file + * the file to serve for the given path, or null to remove any mapping that + * might exist; this file must exist for the lifetime of the server + * @param handler + * an optional object which can be used to handle any further changes. + */ + void registerFile(in string path, + in nsIFile file, + [optional] in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); + + /** + * Registers a custom path handler. + * + * @param path + * the path on the server (beginning with a "/") which is to be handled by + * handler; this path must not include a query string or hash component; it + * also should usually be canonicalized, since most browsers will do so + * before sending otherwise-matching requests + * @param handler + * an object which will handle any requests for the given path, or null to + * remove any existing handler; if while the server is running the handler + * throws an exception while responding to a request, an HTTP 500 response + * will be returned + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if path does not begin with a "/" + */ + void registerPathHandler(in string path, in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); + + /** + * Registers a custom prefix handler. + * + * @param prefix + * the path on the server (beginning and ending with "/") which is to be + * handled by handler; this path must not include a query string or hash + * component. All requests that start with this prefix will be directed to + * the given handler. + * @param handler + * an object which will handle any requests for the given path, or null to + * remove any existing handler; if while the server is running the handler + * throws an exception while responding to a request, an HTTP 500 response + * will be returned + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if path does not begin with a "/" or does not end with a "/" + */ + void registerPrefixHandler(in string prefix, in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); + + /** + * Registers a custom error page handler. + * + * @param code + * the error code which is to be handled by handler + * @param handler + * an object which will handle any requests which generate the given status + * code, or null to remove any existing handler. If the handler throws an + * exception during server operation, fallback is to the genericized error + * handler (the x00 version), then to 500, using a user-defined error + * handler if one exists or the server default handler otherwise. Fallback + * will never occur from a user-provided handler that throws to the same + * handler as provided by the server, e.g. a throwing user 404 falls back to + * 400, not a server-provided 404 that might not throw. + * @note + * If the error handler handles HTTP 500 and throws, behavior is undefined. + */ + void registerErrorHandler(in unsigned long code, in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); + + /** + * Maps all requests to paths beneath path to the corresponding file beneath + * dir. + * + * @param path + * the absolute path on the server against which requests will be served + * from dir (e.g., "/", "/foo/", etc.); must begin and end with a forward + * slash + * @param dir + * the directory to be used to serve all requests for paths underneath path + * (except those further overridden by another, deeper path registered with + * another directory); if null, any current mapping for the given path is + * removed + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if dir is non-null and does not exist or is not a directory, or if path + * does not begin with and end with a forward slash + */ + void registerDirectory(in string path, in nsIFile dir); + + /** + * Associates files with the given extension with the given Content-Type when + * served by this server, in the absence of any file-specific information + * about the desired Content-Type. If type is empty, removes any extant + * mapping, if one is present. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if the given type is not a valid header field value, i.e. if it doesn't + * match the field-value production in RFC 2616 + * @note + * No syntax checking is done of the given type, beyond ensuring that it is + * a valid header field value. Behavior when not given a string matching + * the media-type production in RFC 2616 section 3.7 is undefined. + * Implementations may choose to define specific behavior for types which do + * not match the production, such as for CGI functionality. + * @note + * Implementations MAY treat type as a trusted argument; users who fail to + * generate this string from trusted data risk security vulnerabilities. + */ + void registerContentType(in string extension, in string type); + + /** + * Sets the handler used to display the contents of a directory if + * the directory contains no index page. + * + * @param handler + * an object which will handle any requests for directories which + * do not contain index pages, or null to reset to the default + * index handler; if while the server is running the handler + * throws an exception while responding to a request, an HTTP 500 + * response will be returned. An nsIFile corresponding to the + * directory is available from the metadata object passed to the + * handler, under the key "directory". + */ + void setIndexHandler(in nsIHttpRequestHandler handler); + + /** Represents the locations at which this server is reachable. */ + readonly attribute nsIHttpServerIdentity identity; + + /** + * Retrieves the string associated with the given key in this, for the given + * path's saved state. All keys are initially associated with the empty + * string. + */ + AString getState(in AString path, in AString key); + + /** + * Sets the string associated with the given key in this, for the given path's + * saved state. + */ + void setState(in AString path, in AString key, in AString value); + + /** + * Retrieves the string associated with the given key in this, in + * entire-server saved state. All keys are initially associated with the + * empty string. + */ + AString getSharedState(in AString key); + + /** + * Sets the string associated with the given key in this, in entire-server + * saved state. + */ + void setSharedState(in AString key, in AString value); + + /** + * Retrieves the object associated with the given key in this in + * object-valued saved state. All keys are initially associated with null. + */ + nsISupports getObjectState(in AString key); + + /** + * Sets the object associated with the given key in this in object-valued + * saved state. The value may be null. + */ + void setObjectState(in AString key, in nsISupports value); +}; + +/** + * An interface through which a notification of the complete stopping (socket + * closure, in-flight requests all fully served and responded to) of an HTTP + * server may be received. + */ +[scriptable, function, uuid(925a6d33-9937-4c63-abe1-a1c56a986455)] +interface nsIHttpServerStoppedCallback : nsISupports +{ + /** Called when the corresponding server has been fully stopped. */ + void onStopped(); +}; + +/** + * Represents a set of names for a server, one of which is the primary name for + * the server and the rest of which are secondary. By default every server will + * contain ("http", "localhost", port) and ("http", "127.0.0.1", port) as names, + * where port is what was provided to the corresponding server when started; + * however, except for their being removed when the corresponding server stops + * they have no special importance. + */ +[scriptable, uuid(a89de175-ae8e-4c46-91a5-0dba99bbd284)] +interface nsIHttpServerIdentity : nsISupports +{ + /** + * The primary scheme at which the corresponding server is located, defaulting + * to 'http'. This name will be the value of nsIHttpRequest.scheme for + * HTTP/1.0 requests. + * + * This value is always set when the corresponding server is running. If the + * server is not running, this value is set only if it has been set to a + * non-default name using setPrimary. In this case reading this value will + * throw NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED. + */ + readonly attribute string primaryScheme; + + /** + * The primary name by which the corresponding server is known, defaulting to + * 'localhost'. This name will be the value of nsIHttpRequest.host for + * HTTP/1.0 requests. + * + * This value is always set when the corresponding server is running. If the + * server is not running, this value is set only if it has been set to a + * non-default name using setPrimary. In this case reading this value will + * throw NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED. + */ + readonly attribute string primaryHost; + + /** + * The primary port on which the corresponding server runs, defaulting to the + * associated server's port. This name will be the value of + * nsIHttpRequest.port for HTTP/1.0 requests. + * + * This value is always set when the corresponding server is running. If the + * server is not running, this value is set only if it has been set to a + * non-default name using setPrimary. In this case reading this value will + * throw NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED. + */ + readonly attribute long primaryPort; + + /** + * Adds a location at which this server may be accessed. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE + * if scheme or host do not match the scheme or host productions imported + * into RFC 2616 from RFC 2396, or if port is not a valid port number + */ + void add(in string scheme, in string host, in long port); + + /** + * Removes this name from the list of names by which the corresponding server + * is known. If name is also the primary name for the server, the primary + * name reverts to 'http://127.0.0.1' with the associated server's port. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE + * if scheme or host do not match the scheme or host productions imported + * into RFC 2616 from RFC 2396, or if port is not a valid port number + * @returns + * true if the given name was a name for this server, false otherwise + */ + boolean remove(in string scheme, in string host, in long port); + + /** + * Returns true if the given name is in this, false otherwise. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE + * if scheme or host do not match the scheme or host productions imported + * into RFC 2616 from RFC 2396, or if port is not a valid port number + */ + boolean has(in string scheme, in string host, in long port); + + /** + * Returns the scheme for the name with the given host and port, if one is + * present; otherwise returns the empty string. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE + * if host does not match the host production imported into RFC 2616 from + * RFC 2396, or if port is not a valid port number + */ + string getScheme(in string host, in long port); + + /** + * Designates the given name as the primary name in this and adds it to this + * if it is not already present. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE + * if scheme or host do not match the scheme or host productions imported + * into RFC 2616 from RFC 2396, or if port is not a valid port number + */ + void setPrimary(in string scheme, in string host, in long port); +}; + +/** + * A representation of a handler for HTTP requests. The handler is used by + * calling its .handle method with data for an incoming request; it is the + * handler's job to use that data as it sees fit to make the desired response. + * + * @note + * This interface uses the [function] attribute, so you can pass a + * script-defined function with the functionality of handle() to any + * method which has a nsIHttpRequestHandler parameter, instead of wrapping + * it in an otherwise empty object. + */ +[scriptable, function, uuid(2bbb4db7-d285-42b3-a3ce-142b8cc7e139)] +interface nsIHttpRequestHandler : nsISupports +{ + /** + * Processes an HTTP request and initializes the passed-in response to reflect + * the correct HTTP response. + * + * If this method throws an exception, externally observable behavior depends + * upon whether is being processed asynchronously. If such is the case, the + * output is some prefix (perhaps all, perhaps none, perhaps only some) of the + * data which would have been sent if, instead, the response had been finished + * at that point. If no data has been written, the response has not had + * seizePower() called on it, and it is not being asynchronously created, an + * error handler will be invoked (usually 500 unless otherwise specified). + * + * Some uses of nsIHttpRequestHandler may require this method to never throw + * an exception; in the general case, however, this method may throw an + * exception (causing an HTTP 500 response to occur, if the above conditions + * are met). + * + * @param request + * data representing an HTTP request + * @param response + * an initially-empty response which must be modified to reflect the data + * which should be sent as the response to the request described by metadata + */ + void handle(in nsIHttpRequest request, in nsIHttpResponse response); +}; + + +/** + * A representation of the data included in an HTTP request. + */ +[scriptable, uuid(978cf30e-ad73-42ee-8f22-fe0aaf1bf5d2)] +interface nsIHttpRequest : nsISupports +{ + /** + * The request type for this request (see RFC 2616, section 5.1.1). + */ + readonly attribute string method; + + /** + * The scheme of the requested path, usually 'http' but might possibly be + * 'https' if some form of SSL tunneling is in use. Note that this value + * cannot be accurately determined unless the incoming request used the + * absolute-path form of the request line; it defaults to 'http', so only + * if it is something else can you be entirely certain it's correct. + */ + readonly attribute string scheme; + + /** + * The host of the data being requested (e.g. "localhost" for the + * http://localhost:8080/file resource). Note that the relevant port on the + * host is specified in this.port. This value is in the ASCII character + * encoding. + */ + readonly attribute string host; + + /** + * The port on the server on which the request was received. + */ + readonly attribute unsigned long port; + + /** + * The requested path, without any query string (e.g. "/dir/file.txt"). It is + * guaranteed to begin with a "/". The individual components in this string + * are URL-encoded. + */ + readonly attribute string path; + + /** + * The URL-encoded query string associated with this request, not including + * the initial "?", or "" if no query string was present. + */ + readonly attribute string queryString; + + /** + * A string containing the HTTP version of the request (i.e., "1.1"). Leading + * zeros for either component of the version will be omitted. (In other + * words, if the request contains the version "1.01", this attribute will be + * "1.1"; see RFC 2616, section 3.1.) + */ + readonly attribute string httpVersion; + + /** + * Returns the value for the header in this request specified by fieldName. + * + * @param fieldName + * the name of the field whose value is to be gotten; note that since HTTP + * header field names are case-insensitive, this method produces equivalent + * results for "HeAdER" and "hEADer" as fieldName + * @returns + * The result is a string containing the individual values of the header, + * usually separated with a comma. The headers WWW-Authenticate, + * Proxy-Authenticate, and Set-Cookie violate the HTTP specification, + * however, and for these headers only the separator string is '\n'. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if fieldName does not constitute a valid header field name + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if the given header does not exist in this + */ + string getHeader(in string fieldName); + + /** + * Returns true if a header with the given field name exists in this, false + * otherwise. + * + * @param fieldName + * the field name whose existence is to be determined in this; note that + * since HTTP header field names are case-insensitive, this method produces + * equivalent results for "HeAdER" and "hEADer" as fieldName + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if fieldName does not constitute a valid header field name + */ + boolean hasHeader(in string fieldName); + + /** + * An nsISimpleEnumerator of nsISupportsStrings over the names of the headers + * in this request. The header field names in the enumerator may not + * necessarily have the same case as they do in the request itself. + */ + readonly attribute nsISimpleEnumerator headers; + + /** + * A stream from which data appearing in the body of this request can be read. + */ + readonly attribute nsIInputStream bodyInputStream; +}; + + +/** + * Represents an HTTP response, as described in RFC 2616, section 6. + */ +[scriptable, uuid(1acd16c2-dc59-42fa-9160-4f26c43c1c21)] +interface nsIHttpResponse : nsISupports +{ + /** + * Sets the status line for this. If this method is never called on this, the + * status line defaults to "HTTP/", followed by the server's default HTTP + * version (e.g. "1.1"), followed by " 200 OK". + * + * @param httpVersion + * the HTTP version of this, as a string (e.g. "1.1"); if null, the server + * default is used + * @param code + * the numeric HTTP status code for this + * @param description + * a human-readable description of code; may be null if no description is + * desired + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if httpVersion is not a valid HTTP version string, statusCode is greater + * than 999, or description contains invalid characters + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if this response is being processed asynchronously and data has been + * written to this response's body, or if seizePower() has been called on + * this + */ + void setStatusLine(in string httpVersion, + in unsigned short statusCode, + in string description); + + /** + * Sets the specified header in this. + * + * @param name + * the name of the header; must match the field-name production per RFC 2616 + * @param value + * the value of the header; must match the field-value production per RFC + * 2616 + * @param merge + * when true, if the given header already exists in this, the values passed + * to this function will be merged into the existing header, per RFC 2616 + * header semantics (except for the Set-Cookie, WWW-Authenticate, and + * Proxy-Authenticate headers, which will treat each such merged header as + * an additional instance of the header, for real-world compatibility + * reasons); when false, replaces any existing header of the given name (if + * any exists) with a new header with the specified value + * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG + * if name or value is not a valid header component + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if this response is being processed asynchronously and data has been + * written to this response's body, or if seizePower() has been called on + * this + */ + void setHeader(in string name, in string value, in boolean merge); + + /** + * This is used for testing our header handling, so header will be sent out + * without transformation. There can be multiple headers. + */ + void setHeaderNoCheck(in string name, in string value); + + /** + * A stream to which data appearing in the body of this response (or in the + * totality of the response if seizePower() is called) should be written. + * After this response has been designated as being processed asynchronously, + * or after seizePower() has been called on this, subsequent writes will no + * longer be buffered and will be written to the underlying transport without + * delaying until the entire response is constructed. Write-through may or + * may not be synchronous in the implementation, and in any case particular + * behavior may not be observable to the HTTP client as intermediate buffers + * both in the server socket and in the client may delay written data; be + * prepared for delays at any time. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if accessed after this response is fully constructed + */ + readonly attribute nsIOutputStream bodyOutputStream; + + /** + * Writes a string to the response's output stream. This method is merely a + * convenient shorthand for writing the same data to bodyOutputStream + * directly. + * + * @note + * This method is only guaranteed to work with ASCII data. + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if called after this response has been fully constructed + */ + void write(in string data); + + /** + * Signals that this response is being constructed asynchronously. Requests + * are typically completely constructed during nsIHttpRequestHandler.handle; + * however, responses which require significant resources (time, memory, + * processing) to construct can be created and sent incrementally by calling + * this method during the call to nsIHttpRequestHandler.handle. This method + * only has this effect when called during nsIHttpRequestHandler.handle; + * behavior is undefined if it is called at a later time. It may be called + * multiple times with no ill effect, so long as each call occurs before + * finish() is called. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED + * if not initially called within a nsIHttpRequestHandler.handle call or if + * called after this response has been finished + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if seizePower() has been called on this + */ + void processAsync(); + + /** + * Seizes complete control of this response (and its connection) from the + * server, allowing raw and unfettered access to data being sent in the HTTP + * response. Once this method has been called the only property which may be + * accessed without an exception being thrown is bodyOutputStream, and the + * only methods which may be accessed without an exception being thrown are + * write(), finish(), and seizePower() (which may be called multiple times + * without ill effect so long as all calls are otherwise allowed). + * + * After a successful call, all data subsequently written to the body of this + * response is written directly to the corresponding connection. (Previously- + * written data is silently discarded.) No status line or headers are sent + * before doing so; if the response handler wishes to write such data, it must + * do so manually. Data generation completes only when finish() is called; it + * is not enough to simply call close() on bodyOutputStream. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE + * if processAsync() has been called on this + * @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED + * if finish() has been called on this + */ + void seizePower(); + + /** + * Signals that construction of this response is complete and that it may be + * sent over the network to the client, or if seizePower() has been called + * signals that all data has been written and that the underlying connection + * may be closed. This method may only be called after processAsync() or + * seizePower() has been called. This method is idempotent. + * + * @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED + * if processAsync() or seizePower() has not already been properly called + */ + void finish(); +}; |