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authorMatt A. Tobin <mattatobin@localhost.localdomain>2018-02-02 04:16:08 -0500
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim:set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et cindent: */
+/* 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"
+#include "nsIRunnable.idl"
+%{C++
+#include "nsCOMPtr.h"
+#include "mozilla/AlreadyAddRefed.h"
+%}
+
+native alreadyAddRefed_nsIRunnable(already_AddRefed<nsIRunnable>);
+
+[scriptable, uuid(88145945-3278-424e-9f37-d874cbdd9f6f)]
+interface nsIEventTarget : nsISupports
+{
+ /* until we can get rid of all uses, keep the non-alreadyAddRefed<> version */
+%{C++
+ nsresult Dispatch(nsIRunnable* aEvent, uint32_t aFlags) {
+ return Dispatch(nsCOMPtr<nsIRunnable>(aEvent).forget(), aFlags);
+ }
+%}
+
+ /**
+ * This flag specifies the default mode of event dispatch, whereby the event
+ * is simply queued for later processing. When this flag is specified,
+ * dispatch returns immediately after the event is queued.
+ */
+ const unsigned long DISPATCH_NORMAL = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * This flag specifies the synchronous mode of event dispatch, in which the
+ * dispatch method does not return until the event has been processed.
+ *
+ * NOTE: passing this flag to dispatch may have the side-effect of causing
+ * other events on the current thread to be processed while waiting for the
+ * given event to be processed.
+ */
+ const unsigned long DISPATCH_SYNC = 1;
+
+ /**
+ * This flag specifies that the dispatch is occurring from a running event
+ * that was dispatched to the same event target, and that event is about to
+ * finish.
+ *
+ * A thread pool can use this as an optimization hint to not spin up
+ * another thread, since the current thread is about to become idle.
+ *
+ * These events are always async.
+ */
+ const unsigned long DISPATCH_AT_END = 2;
+
+ /**
+ * Check to see if this event target is associated with the current thread.
+ *
+ * @returns
+ * A boolean value that if "true" indicates that events dispatched to this
+ * event target will run on the current thread (i.e., the thread calling
+ * this method).
+ */
+ boolean isOnCurrentThread();
+
+ /**
+ * Dispatch an event to this event target. This function may be called from
+ * any thread, and it may be called re-entrantly.
+ *
+ * @param event
+ * The alreadyAddRefed<> event to dispatch.
+ * NOTE that the event will be leaked if it fails to dispatch.
+ * @param flags
+ * The flags modifying event dispatch. The flags are described in detail
+ * below.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG
+ * Indicates that event is null.
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
+ * Indicates that the thread is shutting down and has finished processing
+ * events, so this event would never run and has not been dispatched.
+ */
+ [noscript, binaryname(Dispatch)] void dispatchFromC(in alreadyAddRefed_nsIRunnable event, in unsigned long flags);
+ /**
+ * Version of Dispatch to expose to JS, which doesn't require an alreadyAddRefed<>
+ * (it will be converted to that internally)
+ *
+ * @param event
+ * The (raw) event to dispatch.
+ * @param flags
+ * The flags modifying event dispatch. The flags are described in detail
+ * below.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG
+ * Indicates that event is null.
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
+ * Indicates that the thread is shutting down and has finished processing
+ * events, so this event would never run and has not been dispatched.
+ */
+ [binaryname(DispatchFromScript)] void dispatch(in nsIRunnable event, in unsigned long flags);
+ /**
+ * Dispatch an event to this event target, but do not run it before delay
+ * milliseconds have passed. This function may be called from any thread.
+ *
+ * @param event
+ * The alreadyAddrefed<> event to dispatch.
+ * @param delay
+ * The delay (in ms) before running the event. If event does not rise to
+ * the top of the event queue before the delay has passed, it will be set
+ * aside to execute once the delay has passed. Otherwise, it will be
+ * executed immediately.
+ *
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG
+ * Indicates that event is null.
+ * @throws NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED
+ * Indicates that the thread is shutting down and has finished processing
+ * events, so this event would never run and has not been dispatched, or
+ * that delay is zero.
+ */
+ [noscript] void delayedDispatch(in alreadyAddRefed_nsIRunnable event, in unsigned long delay);
+};
+
+%{C++
+// convenient aliases:
+#define NS_DISPATCH_NORMAL nsIEventTarget::DISPATCH_NORMAL
+#define NS_DISPATCH_SYNC nsIEventTarget::DISPATCH_SYNC
+#define NS_DISPATCH_AT_END nsIEventTarget::DISPATCH_AT_END
+%}