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+/* -*- Mode: idl; 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/. */
+
+#include "nsISupports.idl"
+
+%{C++
+
+#include "nsLiteralString.h"
+
+%}
+
+interface mozIStorageConnection;
+interface nsIFile;
+interface nsIFileURL;
+interface nsIPropertyBag2;
+interface nsIVariant;
+interface mozIStorageCompletionCallback;
+
+/**
+ * PRIVACY WARNING
+ * ===============
+ *
+ * Database file names can be exposed through telemetry and in crash reports on
+ * the https://crash-stats.mozilla.org site, to allow recognizing the affected
+ * database.
+ * if your database name may contain privacy sensitive information, e.g. an
+ * URL origin, you should use openDatabaseWithFileURL and pass an explicit
+ * TelemetryFilename to it. That name will be used both for telemetry and for
+ * thread names in crash reports.
+ * If you have different needs (e.g. using the javascript module or an async
+ * connection from the main thread) please coordinate with the mozStorage peers.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The mozIStorageService interface is intended to be implemented by
+ * a service that can create storage connections (mozIStorageConnection)
+ * to either a well-known profile database or to a specific database file.
+ *
+ * This is the only way to open a database connection.
+ *
+ * @note The first reference to mozIStorageService must be made on the main
+ * thread.
+ */
+[scriptable, uuid(07b6b2f5-6d97-47b4-9584-e65bc467fe9e)]
+interface mozIStorageService : nsISupports {
+ /**
+ * Open the database with default flags in default mode.
+ */
+ const unsigned long OPEN_DEFAULT = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Open the database with a shared cache. The shared-cache mode
+ * is more memory-efficient when many connections to the same database
+ * are expected, though, the connections will contend the cache resource.
+ * When performance matters, working without a shared-cache will
+ * improve concurrency. @see openUnsharedDatabase
+ */
+ const unsigned long OPEN_SHARED = 1 << 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Open the underlying database in read-only mode.
+ */
+ const unsigned long OPEN_READONLY = 1 << 1;
+
+ /**
+ * Allow simultaneous access to an asynchronous read-only database
+ * without any file locking.
+ *
+ * For synchronous database, the flag has no effect.
+ *
+ * Specifying the OPEN_IGNORE_LOCKING_MODE flag will automatically
+ * turn on the OPEN_READONLY flag.
+ */
+ const unsigned long OPEN_IGNORE_LOCKING_MODE = 1 << 2;
+
+ /**
+ * All optional connection object features are off.
+ */
+ const unsigned long CONNECTION_DEFAULT = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Enable Interrupt-method for the synchronous connection object
+ * returned by openDatabase, openSpecialDatabase, openUnsharedDatabase
+ * or openDatabaseWithFileURL calls.
+ *
+ * When this flag is not set, Interrupt-method of a
+ * synchronous connection must not be used.
+ *
+ * Asynchronous connection is always interruptible and the flag
+ * does not change anything.
+ *
+ * The following are among the potential risks side effects of
+ * calling the Interrupt-method:
+ * - new queries started on a different thread after the
+ * interrupt call, but before its completion, are interrupted as if
+ * they had been running prior to the interrupt call. Thus thread
+ * synchronization is necessary.
+ * - calls to close the database will wait until the interruption
+ * finishes.
+ */
+ const unsigned long CONNECTION_INTERRUPTIBLE = 1 << 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Open an asynchronous connection to a database.
+ *
+ * This method MUST be called from the main thread. The connection object
+ * returned by this function is not threadsafe. You MUST use it only from
+ * the main thread.
+ *
+ * If you have more than one connection to a file, you MUST use the EXACT
+ * SAME NAME for the file each time, including case. The sqlite code uses
+ * a simple string compare to see if there is already a connection. Opening
+ * a connection to "Foo.sqlite" and "foo.sqlite" will CORRUPT YOUR DATABASE.
+ *
+ * @param aDatabaseStore Either a nsIFile representing the file that contains
+ * the database or a special string to open a special database. The special
+ * string may be:
+ * - "memory" to open an in-memory database.
+ *
+ * @param aOpenFlags
+ * A set of flags to open the database with optional features.
+ * Currently supports OPEN_SHARED, OPEN_READONLY and
+ * OPEN_IGNORE_LOCKING_MODE flags.
+ * For full details, please refer to the documentation of the flags.
+ *
+ * @param aConnectionFlags
+ * A set of flags to enable optional features for the returned
+ * asynchronous connection object.
+ * Currently supports CONNECTION_INTERRUPTIBLE flag.
+ * For full details, please refer to the documentation of the flag.
+ *
+ * @param aCallback A callback that will receive the result of the operation.
+ * In case of error, it may receive as status:
+ * - NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY if allocating a new storage object fails.
+ * - NS_ERROR_FILE_CORRUPTED if the database file is corrupted.
+ * In case of success, it receives as argument the new database
+ * connection, as an instance of |mozIStorageAsyncConnection|.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if |aDatabaseStore| is neither a file nor
+ * one of the special strings understood by this method, or if one of
+ * the options passed through |aOptions| does not have
+ * the right type.
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_NOT_SAME_THREAD if called from a thread other than the
+ * main thread.
+ */
+ void openAsyncDatabase(in nsIVariant aDatabaseStore,
+ in unsigned long aOpenFlags,
+ in unsigned long aConnectionFlags,
+ in mozIStorageCompletionCallback aCallback);
+
+ /**
+ * Get a connection to a named special database storage.
+ *
+ * @param aStorageKey a string key identifying the type of storage
+ * requested. Valid values include: "memory".
+ *
+ * @param aName an optional string identifying the name of the database.
+ * If omitted, a filename of ":memory:" will be used which results in a
+ * private in-memory database specific to this connection, making it
+ * impossible to clone the in-memory database. If you want to be able to
+ * clone the connection (or otherwise connect to the in-memory database from
+ * a connection), then you must pick a name that's sufficiently unique within
+ * the process to not collide with other mozStorage users.
+ *
+ * @param [optional] aConnectionFlags
+ * A set of flags to enable optional features for the returned
+ * synchronous connection object.
+ * Currently supports CONNECTION_INTERRUPTIBLE flag.
+ * For full details, please refer to the documentation of the flag.
+ *
+ * @see openDatabase for restrictions on how database connections may be
+ * used. For the profile database, you should only access it from the main
+ * thread since other callers may also have connections.
+ *
+ * @returns a new mozIStorageConnection for the requested
+ * storage database.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if aStorageKey is invalid.
+ */
+ mozIStorageConnection openSpecialDatabase(
+ in ACString aStorageKey,
+ [optional] in ACString aName,
+ [optional] in unsigned long aConnectionFlags);
+
+ /**
+ * Open a connection to the specified file.
+ *
+ * Consumers should check mozIStorageConnection::connectionReady to ensure
+ * that they can use the database. If this value is false, it is strongly
+ * recommended that the database be backed up with
+ * mozIStorageConnection::backupDB so user data is not lost.
+ *
+ * ==========
+ * DANGER
+ * ==========
+ *
+ * If you have more than one connection to a file, you MUST use the EXACT
+ * SAME NAME for the file each time, including case. The sqlite code uses
+ * a simple string compare to see if there is already a connection. Opening
+ * a connection to "Foo.sqlite" and "foo.sqlite" will CORRUPT YOUR DATABASE.
+ *
+ * The connection object returned by this function is not threadsafe. You
+ * must use it only from the thread you created it from.
+ *
+ * @param aDatabaseFile
+ * A nsIFile that represents the database that is to be opened.
+ * @param [optional] aConnectionFlags
+ * A set of flags to enable optional features for the returned
+ * synchronous connection object.
+ * Currently supports CONNECTION_INTERRUPTIBLE flag.
+ * For full details, please refer to the documentation of the flag.
+ *
+ * @returns a mozIStorageConnection for the requested database file.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY
+ * If allocating a new storage object fails.
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_FILE_CORRUPTED
+ * If the database file is corrupted.
+ */
+ mozIStorageConnection openDatabase(
+ in nsIFile aDatabaseFile, [optional] in unsigned long aConnectionFlags);
+
+ /**
+ * Open a connection to the specified file that doesn't share a sqlite cache.
+ *
+ * Without a shared-cache, each connection uses its own pages cache, which
+ * may be memory inefficient with a large number of connections, in such a
+ * case so you should use openDatabase instead. On the other side, if cache
+ * contention may be an issue, for instance when concurrency is important to
+ * ensure responsiveness, using unshared connections may be a
+ * performance win.
+ *
+ * ==========
+ * DANGER
+ * ==========
+ *
+ * If you have more than one connection to a file, you MUST use the EXACT
+ * SAME NAME for the file each time, including case. The sqlite code uses
+ * a simple string compare to see if there is already a connection. Opening
+ * a connection to "Foo.sqlite" and "foo.sqlite" will CORRUPT YOUR DATABASE.
+ *
+ * The connection object returned by this function is not threadsafe. You
+ * must use it only from the thread you created it from.
+ *
+ * @param aDatabaseFile
+ * A nsIFile that represents the database that is to be opened.
+ * @param [optional] aConnectionFlags
+ * A set of flags to enable optional features for the returned
+ * synchronous connection object.
+ * Currently supports CONNECTION_INTERRUPTIBLE flag.
+ * For full details, please refer to the documentation of the flag.
+ *
+ * @returns a mozIStorageConnection for the requested database file.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY
+ * If allocating a new storage object fails.
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_FILE_CORRUPTED
+ * If the database file is corrupted.
+ */
+ mozIStorageConnection openUnsharedDatabase(
+ in nsIFile aDatabaseFile, [optional] in unsigned long aConnectionFlags);
+
+ /**
+ * See openDatabase(). Exactly the same only initialized with a file URL.
+ * Custom parameters can be passed to SQLite and VFS implementations through
+ * the query part of the URL.
+ *
+ * @param aURL
+ * A nsIFileURL that represents the database that is to be opened.
+ * @param [optional] aTelemetryFilename
+ * The name to use for the database in telemetry. Only needed if the
+ * actual filename can contain sensitive information.
+ * @param [optional] aConnectionFlags
+ * A set of flags to enable optional features for the returned
+ * synchronous connection object.
+ * Currently supports CONNECTION_INTERRUPTIBLE flag.
+ * For full details, please refer to the documentation of the flag.
+ */
+ mozIStorageConnection openDatabaseWithFileURL(
+ in nsIFileURL aFileURL, [optional] in ACString aTelemetryFilename,
+ [optional] in unsigned long aConnectionFlags);
+};
+
+%{C++
+
+constexpr auto kMozStorageMemoryStorageKey = "memory"_ns;
+
+%}