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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000
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Adding upstream version 124.0.1.upstream/124.0.1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/* 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 nsIObjectInputStream;
+interface nsIObjectOutputStream;
+
+[scriptable, uuid(91cca981-c26d-44a8-bebe-d9ed4891503a)]
+interface nsISerializable : nsISupports
+{
+ /**
+ * Initialize the object implementing nsISerializable, which must have
+ * been freshly constructed via CreateInstance. All data members that
+ * can't be set to default values must have been serialized by write,
+ * and should be read from aInputStream in the same order by this method.
+ */
+ [must_use] void read(in nsIObjectInputStream aInputStream);
+
+ /**
+ * Serialize the object implementing nsISerializable to aOutputStream, by
+ * writing each data member that must be recovered later to reconstitute
+ * a working replica of this object, in a canonical member and byte order,
+ * to aOutputStream.
+ *
+ * NB: a class that implements nsISerializable *must* also implement
+ * nsIClassInfo, in particular nsIClassInfo::GetClassID.
+ */
+ void write(in nsIObjectOutputStream aOutputStream);
+};