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/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
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 * 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 nsIBFCacheEntry;
interface nsISHEntry;
interface nsISHistoryListener;
interface nsIURI;
webidl BrowsingContext;

%{C++
#include "nsTArrayForwardDeclare.h"
#include "mozilla/Maybe.h"
struct EntriesAndBrowsingContextData;
namespace mozilla {
namespace dom {
class SHEntrySharedParentState;
} // namespace dom
} // namespace mozilla
%}

[ref] native nsDocshellIDArray(nsTArray<nsID>);
native MaybeInt32(mozilla::Maybe<int32_t>);
[ptr] native SHEntrySharedParentStatePtr(mozilla::dom::SHEntrySharedParentState);
/**
 * An interface to the primary properties of the Session History
 * component. In an embedded browser environment, the nsIWebBrowser
 * object creates an instance of session history for each open window.
 * A handle to the session history object can be obtained from
 * nsIWebNavigation. In a non-embedded situation, the  owner of the
 * session history component must create a instance of it and set
 * it in the nsIWebNavigation object.
 * This interface is accessible from javascript.
 */

[builtinclass, scriptable, uuid(7b807041-e60a-4384-935f-af3061d8b815)]
interface nsISHistory: nsISupports
{
  /**
   * A readonly property of the interface that returns
   * the number of toplevel documents currently available
   * in session history.
   */
  [infallible] readonly attribute long count;

  /**
   * The index of the current document in session history. Not infallible
   * because setting can fail if the assigned value is out of range.
   */
  attribute long index;

  /**
   * A readonly property of the interface that returns
   * the index of the last document that started to load and
   * didn't finished yet. When document finishes the loading
   * value -1 is returned.
   */
  [infallible] readonly attribute long requestedIndex;

  /**
   * Artifically set the |requestedIndex| for this nsISHEntry to the given
   * index. This is used when resuming a cross-process load from a different
   * process.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void internalSetRequestedIndex(in long aRequestedIndex);

  /**
   * Get the history entry at a given index. Returns non-null on success.
   *
   * @param index             The index value whose entry is requested.
   *                          The oldest entry is located at index == 0.
   * @return                  The found entry; never null.
   */
  nsISHEntry getEntryAtIndex(in long aIndex);

  /**
   * Called to purge older documents from history.
   * Documents can be removed from session history for various
   * reasons. For example to  control memory usage of the browser, to
   * prevent users from loading documents from history, to erase evidence of
   * prior page loads etc...
   *
   * @param numEntries        The number of toplevel documents to be
   *                          purged from history. During purge operation,
   *                          the latest documents are maintained and older
   *                          'numEntries' documents are removed from history.
   * @throws                  <code>NS_SUCCESS_LOSS_OF_INSIGNIFICANT_DATA</code>
   *                          Purge was vetod.
   * @throws                  <code>NS_ERROR_FAILURE</code> numEntries is
   *                          invalid or out of bounds with the size of history.
   */
  void purgeHistory(in long aNumEntries);

  /**
   * Called to register a listener for the session history component.
   * Listeners are notified when pages are loaded or purged from history.
   *
   * @param aListener         Listener object to be notified for all
   *                          page loads that initiate in session history.
   *
   * @note                    A listener object must implement
   *                          nsISHistoryListener and nsSupportsWeakReference
   *
   * @see nsISHistoryListener
   * @see nsSupportsWeakReference
   */
  void addSHistoryListener(in nsISHistoryListener aListener);

  /**
   * Called to remove a listener for the session history component.
   * Listeners are notified when pages are loaded from history.
   *
   * @param aListener         Listener object to be removed from
   *                          session history.
   *
   * @note                    A listener object must implement
   *                          nsISHistoryListener and nsSupportsWeakReference
   * @see nsISHistoryListener
   * @see nsSupportsWeakReference
   */
  void removeSHistoryListener(in nsISHistoryListener aListener);

  void reloadCurrentEntry();

  /**
   * Load the entry at the particular index.
   */
  [noscript]
  void gotoIndex(in long aIndex, in boolean aUserActivation);

  /**
   * If an element exists at the particular index and
   * whether it has user interaction.
   */
  [noscript,notxpcom]
  boolean hasUserInteractionAtIndex(in long aIndex);

  /**
   * Called to obtain the index to a given history entry.
   *
   * @param aEntry            The entry to obtain the index of.
   *
   * @return                  <code>NS_OK</code> index for the history entry
   *                          is obtained successfully.
   *                          <code>NS_ERROR_FAILURE</code> Error in obtaining
   *                          index for the given history entry.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  long getIndexOfEntry(in nsISHEntry aEntry);

  /**
   * Add a new Entry to the History List.
   *
   * @param aEntry            The entry to add.
   * @param aPersist          If true this specifies that the entry should
   *                          persist in the list. If false, this means that
   *                          when new entries are added this element will not
   *                          appear in the session history list.
   */
  void addEntry(in nsISHEntry aEntry, in boolean aPersist);

  /**
   * Update the index maintained by sessionHistory
   */
  void updateIndex();

  /**
   * Replace the nsISHEntry at a particular index
   *
   * @param aIndex            The index at which the entry should be replaced.
   * @param aReplaceEntry     The replacement entry for the index.
   */
  void replaceEntry(in long aIndex, in nsISHEntry aReplaceEntry);

  /**
   * Notifies all registered session history listeners about an impending
   * reload.
   *
   * @return                  Whether the operation can proceed.
   */
  boolean notifyOnHistoryReload();

  /**
   * Evict content viewers which don't lie in the "safe" range around aIndex.
   * In practice, this should leave us with no more than gHistoryMaxViewers
   * viewers associated with this SHistory object.
   *
   * Also make sure that the total number of content viewers in all windows is
   * not greater than our global max; if it is, evict viewers as appropriate.
   *
   * @param aIndex           The index around which the "safe" range is
   *                         centered.  In general, if you just navigated the
   *                         history, aIndex should be the index history was
   *                         navigated to.
   */
  void evictOutOfRangeDocumentViewers(in long aIndex);

  /**
   * Evict the content viewer associated with a bfcache entry that has timed
   * out.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void evictExpiredDocumentViewerForEntry(in SHEntrySharedParentStatePtr aEntry);

  /**
   * Evict all the content viewers in this session history
   */
  void evictAllDocumentViewers();

  /**
   * Add a BFCache entry to expiration tracker so it gets evicted on
   * expiration.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void addToExpirationTracker(in SHEntrySharedParentStatePtr aEntry);

  /**
   * Remove a BFCache entry from expiration tracker.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void removeFromExpirationTracker(in SHEntrySharedParentStatePtr aEntry);

  /**
   * Remove dynamic entries found at given index.
   *
   * @param aIndex           Index to remove dynamic entries from. It will be
   *                         passed to RemoveEntries as aStartIndex.
   * @param aEntry (optional)  The entry to start looking in for dynamic
   *                         entries. Only the dynamic descendants of the
   *                         entry will be removed. If not given, all dynamic
   *                         entries at the index will be removed.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void RemoveDynEntries(in long aIndex, in nsISHEntry aEntry);

  /**
   * Similar to RemoveDynEntries, but instead of specifying an index, use the
   * given BFCacheEntry to find the index and remove dynamic entries from the
   * index.
   *
   * The method takes no effect if the bfcache entry is not or no longer hold
   * by the SHistory instance.
   *
   * @param aEntry           The bfcache entry to look up for index to remove
   *                         dynamic entries from.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void RemoveDynEntriesForBFCacheEntry(in nsIBFCacheEntry aEntry);

  /**
   * Removes entries from the history if their docshellID is in
   * aIDs array.
   */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void RemoveEntries(in nsDocshellIDArray aIDs, in long aStartIndex);

  /**
   * Collect docshellIDs from aEntry's children and remove those
   * entries from history.
   *
   * @param aEntry           Children docshellID's will be collected from
   *                         this entry and passed to RemoveEntries as aIDs.
  */
  [noscript, notxpcom]
  void RemoveFrameEntries(in nsISHEntry aEntry);

  [noscript]
  void Reload(in unsigned long aReloadFlags);

  [notxpcom] void EnsureCorrectEntryAtCurrIndex(in nsISHEntry aEntry);

  [notxpcom] void EvictDocumentViewersOrReplaceEntry(in nsISHEntry aNewSHEntry, in bool aReplace);

  nsISHEntry createEntry();

  [noscript] void AddToRootSessionHistory(in bool aCloneChildren, in nsISHEntry aOSHE,
                                          in BrowsingContext aRootBC, in nsISHEntry aEntry,
                                          in unsigned long aLoadType,
                                          in bool aShouldPersist,
                                          out MaybeInt32 aPreviousEntryIndex,
                                          out MaybeInt32 aLoadedEntryIndex);

  [noscript] void AddChildSHEntryHelper(in nsISHEntry aCloneRef, in nsISHEntry aNewEntry,
                                        in BrowsingContext aRootBC, in bool aCloneChildren);

  [noscript, notxpcom] boolean isEmptyOrHasEntriesForSingleTopLevelPage();
};