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/* -*- Mode: Java; 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 "nsIFile.idl"

%{C++
struct PRFileDesc;
%}

[ptr] native PRFileDescStar(PRFileDesc);

[scriptable, builtinclass, uuid(e7a3a954-384b-4aeb-a5f7-55626b0de9be)]
interface nsILocalFileWin : nsIFile
{
    /**
     *  initWithCommandLine
     *
     *  Initialize this object based on the main app path of a commandline
     *  handler.
     *
     *   @param aCommandLine
     *       the commandline to parse an app path out of.
     */
    void initWithCommandLine(in AString aCommandLine);
   /**
    * getVersionInfoValue
    *
    * Retrieve a metadata field from the file's VERSIONINFO block.
    * Throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if no value is found, or the value is empty.
    *
    * @param   aField         The field to look up.
    *
    */
    AString getVersionInfoField(in string aField);

    /**
     * The canonical path of the file, which avoids short/long
     * pathname inconsistencies. The nsIFile persistent
     * descriptor is not guaranteed to be canonicalized (it may
     * persist either the long or the short path name). The format of
     * the canonical path will vary with the underlying file system:
     * it will typically be the short pathname on filesystems that
     * support both short and long path forms.
     */
    [noscript] readonly attribute AString canonicalPath;

    /**
     * Get or set whether this file is marked read-only.
     *
     * Throws NS_ERROR_FILE_INVALID_PATH for an invalid file.
     * Throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if the set or get fails.
     */
    attribute boolean readOnly;

    /**
     * Setting this to true will prepend the prefix "\\?\" to all parsed file
     * paths which match ^[A-Za-z]:\\.* (regex) syntax.
     *
     * There are two known issues (and potentially more) which can be resolved
     * by the prefix:
     * - In the Windows API, the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH in
     *   general. However, Windows API has many functions that also have Unicode
     *   versions to permit an extended-length path for a maximum total path
     *   length of 32,767 characters.
     *
     * - A path component which ends with a dot is not allowed for Windows
     *   API.
     *
     * If either of these issues are expected to be common in your code, you
     * should set this flag to true. (You should probably not have to set this
     * flag to true.)
     */
    attribute boolean useDOSDevicePathSyntax;

    /**
     * Identical to nsIFile::openNSPRFileDesc except it also uses the
     * FILE_SHARE_DELETE flag.
    */
    [noscript] PRFileDescStar openNSPRFileDescShareDelete(in long flags,
                                                          in long mode);

    /**
     * Return the Windows-specific file attributes of this file.
     */
    [noscript] unsigned long getWindowsFileAttributes();

    /**
     * Set or clear the Windows specific file attributes of this file.
     *
     * @param aSetAttrs   Attribute to set on the file.
     * @param aClearAttrs Attributes to clear on the file.
     */
    [noscript] void setWindowsFileAttributes(in unsigned long aSetAttrs,
                                             in unsigned long aClearAttrs);
};