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diff --git a/toolkit/components/windowcreator/nsIWindowProvider.idl b/toolkit/components/windowcreator/nsIWindowProvider.idl new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a51b5689ee --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/windowcreator/nsIWindowProvider.idl @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */ +/* 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/. */ + +/** + * nsIWindowProvider is a callback interface used by Gecko when it needs to + * open a new window. This interface can be implemented by Gecko consumers who + * wish to provide a custom "new window" of their own (for example by returning + * a new tab, an existing window, etc) instead of just having a real new + * toplevel window open. + */ + +#include "nsISupports.idl" + +%{ C++ +class nsDocShellLoadState; +%} + +webidl BrowsingContext; +interface mozIDOMWindowProxy; +interface nsIURI; +interface nsIOpenWindowInfo; +native nsDocShellLoadStatePtr(nsDocShellLoadState*); + +/** + * The nsIWindowProvider interface exists so that the window watcher's default + * behavior of opening a new window can be easly modified. When the window + * watcher needs to open a new window, it will first check with the + * nsIWindowProvider it gets from the parent window. If there is no provider + * or the provider does not provide a window, the window watcher will proceed + * to actually open a new window. + */ +[scriptable, uuid(e97a3830-15ef-499b-8372-c22d128091c1)] +interface nsIWindowProvider : nsISupports +{ + /** + * A method to request that this provider provide a window. The window + * returned need not to have the right name or parent set on it; setting + * those is the caller's responsibility. The provider can always return null + * to have the caller create a brand-new window. + * + * @param aOpenWindowInfo Must not be null. This is the information the + * caller wants to be used to construct the new window. + * + * @param aChromeFlags The chrome flags the caller will use to create a new + * window if this provider returns null. See nsIWebBrowserChrome for + * the possible values of this field. + * + * @param aURI The URI to be loaded in the new window (may be NULL). The + * nsIWindowProvider implementation must not load this URI into the + * window it returns. This URI is provided solely to help the + * nsIWindowProvider implementation make decisions; the caller will + * handle loading the URI in the window returned if provideWindow + * returns a window. + * + * When making decisions based on aURI, note that even when it's not + * null, aURI may not represent all relevant information about the + * load. For example, the load may have extra load flags, POST data, + * etc. + * + * @param aName The name of the window being opened. Setting the name on the + * return value of provideWindow will be handled by the caller; aName + * is provided solely to help the nsIWindowProvider implementation + * make decisions. + * + * @param aFeatures The feature string for the window being opened. This may + * be empty. The nsIWindowProvider implementation is allowed to apply + * the feature string to the window it returns in any way it sees fit. + * See the nsIWindowWatcher interface for details on feature strings. + * + * @param aIsPopupRequested True if this window is opened by window.open + * with requesting a popup window. This doesn't necessarily mean + * whether the actual window is shown as minimal popup or not. + * + * @param aLoadState Specify setup information of the load in the new window + * + * @param aWindowIsNew [out] Whether the window being returned was just + * created by the window provider implementation. This can be used by + * callers to keep track of which windows were opened by the user as + * opposed to being opened programmatically. This should be set to + * false if the window being returned existed before the + * provideWindow() call. The value of this out parameter is + * meaningless if provideWindow() returns null. + * + * @return A window the caller should use or null if the caller should just + * create a new window. The returned window may be newly opened by + * the nsIWindowProvider implementation or may be a window that + * already existed. + * + * @throw NS_ERROR_ABORT if the caller should cease its attempt to open a new + * window. + * + * @see nsIWindowWatcher for more information on aFeatures. + * @see nsIWebBrowserChrome for more information on aChromeFlags. + */ + [noscript] + BrowsingContext provideWindow(in nsIOpenWindowInfo aOpenWindowInfo, + in unsigned long aChromeFlags, + in boolean aCalledFromJS, + in nsIURI aURI, + in AString aName, + in AUTF8String aFeatures, + in boolean aForceNoOpener, + in boolean aForceNoReferrer, + in boolean aIsPopupRequested, + in nsDocShellLoadStatePtr aLoadState, + out boolean aWindowIsNew); +}; |