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/* 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 protocol PBackground;
include protocol PBackgroundLSSnapshot;

include PBackgroundLSSharedTypes;

include "mozilla/dom/localstorage/SerializationHelpers.h";

using mozilla::dom::LSSnapshot::LoadState
  from "mozilla/dom/LSSnapshot.h";

namespace mozilla {
namespace dom {

/**
 * Initial LSSnapshot state as produced by Datastore::GetSnapshotLoadInfo.  See
 * `LSSnapshot::LoadState` for more details about the possible states and a
 * high level overview.
 */
struct LSSnapshotInitInfo
{
  /**
   * Boolean indicating whether the `key` provided as an argument to the
   * PBackgroundLSSnapshot constructor did not exist in the Datastore and should
   * be treated as an unknown and therefore undefined value. Note that `key` may
   * have been provided as a void string, in which case this value is forced to
   * be false.
   */
  bool addKeyToUnknownItems;
  /**
   * As many key/value or key/void pairs as the snapshot prefill byte budget
   * allowed.
   */
  LSItemInfo[] itemInfos;
  /**
   * The total number of key/value pairs in LocalStorage for this origin at the
   * time the snapshot was created.  (And the point of the snapshot is to
   * conceptually freeze the state of the Datastore in time, so this value does
   * not change despite what other LSDatabase objects get up to in other
   * processes.)
   */
  uint32_t totalLength;
  /**
   * The current amount of LocalStorage usage as measured by the summing the
   * nsString Length() of both the key and the value over all stored pairs.
   */
  int64_t initialUsage;
  /**
   * The amount of storage allowed to be used by the Snapshot without requesting
   * more storage space via IncreasePeakUsage.  This is the `initialUsage` plus
   * 0 or more bytes of space.  If space was available, the increase will be the
   * `requestedSize` from the PBackgroundLSSnapshot constructor.  If the
   * LocalStorage usage was already close to the limit, then the fallback is the
   * `minSize` requested, or 0 if there wasn't space for that.
   */
  int64_t peakUsage;
  // See `LSSnapshot::LoadState` in `LSSnapshot.h`
  LoadState loadState;
  /**
   * Boolean indicating whether there where cross-process observers registered
   * for this origin at the time the snapshot was created.
   */
  bool hasOtherProcessObservers;
};

/**
 * This protocol is asynchronously created via constructor on PBackground but
 * has synchronous semantics from the perspective of content on the main thread.
 * The construction potentially involves waiting for disk I/O to load the
 * LocalStorage data from disk as well as related QuotaManager checks, so async
 * calls to PBackground are the only viable mechanism because blocking
 * PBackground is not acceptable.  (Note that an attempt is made to minimize any
 * I/O latency by triggering preloading from
 * ContentParent::AboutToLoadHttpFtpDocumentForChild, the central place
 * for pre-loading.)
 */
sync protocol PBackgroundLSDatabase
{
  manager PBackground;
  manages PBackgroundLSSnapshot;

parent:
  // The DeleteMe message is used to avoid a race condition between the parent
  // actor and the child actor. The PBackgroundLSDatabase protocol could be
  // simply destroyed by sending the __delete__ message from the child side.
  // However, that would destroy the child actor immediatelly and the parent
  // could be sending a message to the child at the same time resulting in a
  // routing error since the child actor wouldn't exist anymore. A routing
  // error typically causes a crash. The race can be prevented by doing the
  // teardown in two steps. First, we send the DeleteMe message to the parent
  // and the parent then sends the __delete__ message to the child.
  async DeleteMe();

  /**
   * Sent in response to a `RequestAllowToClose` message once the snapshot
   * cleanup has happened OR from LSDatabase's destructor if AllowToClose has
   * not already been reported.
   */
  async AllowToClose();

  /**
   * Invoked to create an LSSnapshot backed by a Snapshot in PBackground that
   * presents an atomic and consistent view of the state of the authoritative
   * Datastore state in the parent.
   *
   * This needs to be synchronous because LocalStorage's semantics are
   * synchronous.  Note that the Datastore in the PBackground parent already
   * has the answers to this request immediately available without needing to
   * consult any other threads or perform any I/O.  Additionally, the response
   * is explicitly bounded in size by the tunable snapshot prefill byte limit.
   *
   * @param key
   *   If key is non-void, then the snapshot is being triggered by a direct
   *   access to a localStorage key (get, set, or removal, with set/removal
   *   requiring the old value in order to properly populate the "storage"
   *   event), the key being requested. It's possible the key is not present in
   *   localStorage, in which case LSSnapshotInitInfo::addKeyToUnknownItems will
   *   be true indicating that there is no such key/value pair, otherwise it
   *   will be false.
   * @param increasePeakUsage
   *   Whether the parent should attempt to pre-allocate some amount of quota
   *   usage to the Snapshot.
   */
  sync PBackgroundLSSnapshot(nsString documentURI,
                             nsString key,
                             bool increasePeakUsage,
                             int64_t requestedSize,
                             int64_t minSize)
    returns (LSSnapshotInitInfo initInfo);

child:
  /**
   * Only sent by the parent in response to the child's DeleteMe request.
   */
  async __delete__();

  /**
   * Request to close the LSDatabase, checkpointing and finishing any
   * outstanding snapshots so no state is lost.  This request is issued when
   * QuotaManager is shutting down or is aborting operations for an origin or
   * process.  Once the snapshot has cleaned up, AllowToClose will be sent to
   * the parent.
   *
   * Note that the QuotaManager shutdown process is more likely to happen in
   * unit tests where we explicitly reset the QuotaManager.  At runtime, we
   * expect windows to be closed and content processes terminated well before
   * QuotaManager shutdown would actually occur.
   *
   * Also, Operations are usually aborted for an origin due to privacy API's
   * clearing data for an origin.  Operations are aborted for a process by
   * ContentParent::ShutDownProcess.
   */
  async RequestAllowToClose();
};

} // namespace dom
} // namespace mozilla