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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-21 11:44:51 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-21 11:44:51 +0000
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Adding upstream version 1:115.7.0.upstream/1%115.7.0upstream
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+/* 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"
+
+/**
+ * Utilities for running nested event loops, asking them to return, and
+ * keeping track of which ones are still running.
+ */
+[scriptable, uuid(6758d0d7-e96a-4c5c-bca8-3bcbe5a15943)]
+interface nsIJSInspector : nsISupports
+{
+ /**
+ * Process the current thread's event queue, calling event handlers until
+ * a call to exitNestedEventLoop, below, asks us to return.
+ *
+ * The name 'enterNestedEventLoop' may be misleading if read too literally.
+ * This method loops calling event handlers until one asks it to stop, and
+ * then returns. So by that point, the nested event loop has been not only
+ * entered, but also run and exited.
+ *
+ * When enterNestedEventLoop calls an event handler, that handler may itself
+ * call enterNestedEventLoop, and so on, so that there may be arbitrarily
+ * many such calls on the stack at the same time.
+ *
+ * We say an enterNestedEventLoop call is "running" if it has not yet been
+ * asked to return, or "stopped" if it has been asked to return once it has
+ * finished processing the current event.
+ *
+ * @param requestor A token of the caller's choice to identify this event
+ * loop.
+ *
+ * @return depth The number of running enterNestedEventLoop calls
+ * remaining, now that this one has returned.
+ *
+ * (Note that not all calls still on the stack are
+ * necessary running; exitNestedEventLoop can ask any
+ * number of enterNestedEventLoop calls to return.)
+ */
+ unsigned long enterNestedEventLoop(in jsval requestor);
+
+ /**
+ * Stop the youngest running enterNestedEventLoop call, asking it to return
+ * once it has finished processing the current event.
+ *
+ * The name 'exitNestedEventLoop' may be misleading if read too literally.
+ * The affected event loop does not return immediately when this method is
+ * called. Rather, this method simply returns to its caller; the affected
+ * loop's current event handler is allowed to run to completion; and then
+ * that loop returns without processing any more events.
+ *
+ * This method ignores loops that have already been stopped, and operates on
+ * the youngest loop that is still running. Each call to this method stops
+ * another running loop.
+ *
+ * @return depth The number of running enterNestedEventLoop calls
+ * remaining, now that one has been stopped.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if there are no running enterNestedEventLoop calls.
+ */
+ unsigned long exitNestedEventLoop();
+
+ /**
+ * The number of running enterNestedEventLoop calls on the stack.
+ * This count does not include stopped enterNestedEventLoop calls.
+ */
+ readonly attribute unsigned long eventLoopNestLevel;
+
+ /**
+ * The |requestor| value that was passed to the youngest running
+ * enterNestedEventLoop call.
+ */
+ readonly attribute jsval lastNestRequestor;
+};