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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/. */
"use strict";

const { Cc, Ci, Cr } = require("chrome");
const { Input, start, stop, receive, outputs } = require("../event/utils");
const { id: addonID } = require("../self");
const { setImmediate } = require("../timers");
const { notifyObservers } = Cc['@mozilla.org/observer-service;1'].
                             getService(Ci.nsIObserverService);

const NOT_AN_INPUT = "OutputPort can be used only for sending messages";

// `OutputPort` creates a port to which messages can be send. Those
// messages are actually disptached as `subject`'s of the observer
// notifications. This is handy for communicating between different
// components of the SDK. By default messages are dispatched
// asynchronously, although `options.sync` can be used to make them
// synchronous. If `options.id` is given `topic` for observer
// notifications is generated by namespacing it, to avoid spamming
// other SDK add-ons. It's also possible to provide `options.topic`
// to use excat `topic` without namespacing it.
//
// Note: Symmetric `new InputPort({ id: "x" })` instances can be used to
// receive messages send to the instances of `new OutputPort({ id: "x" })`.
const OutputPort = function({id, topic, sync}) {
  this.id = id || topic;
  this.sync = !!sync;
  this.topic = topic || "sdk:" + addonID + ":" + id;
};
// OutputPort extends base signal type to implement same message
// receiving interface.
OutputPort.prototype = new Input();
OutputPort.constructor = OutputPort;

// OutputPort can not be consumed there for starting or stopping it
// is not supported.
OutputPort.prototype[start] = _ => { throw TypeError(NOT_AN_INPUT); };
OutputPort.prototype[stop] = _ => { throw TypeError(NOT_AN_INPUT); };

// Port reecives message send to it, which will be dispatched via
// observer notification service.
OutputPort.receive = ({topic, sync}, message) => {
  const type = typeof(message);
  const supported = message === null ||
                    type === "object" ||
                    type === "function";

  // There is no sensible way to wrap JS primitives that would make sense
  // for general observer notification users. It's also probably not very
  // useful to dispatch JS primitives as subject of observer service, there
  // for we do not support those use cases.
  if (!supported)
    throw new TypeError("Unsupproted message type: `" + type + "`");

  // Normalize `message` to create a valid observer notification `subject`.
  // If `message` is `null`, implements `nsISupports` interface or already
  // represents wrapped JS object use it as is. Otherwise create a wrapped
  // object so that observers could receive it.
  const subject = message === null ? null :
                  message instanceof Ci.nsISupports ? message :
                  message.wrappedJSObject ? message :
                  {wrappedJSObject: message};
  if (sync)
    notifyObservers(subject, topic, null);
  else
    setImmediate(notifyObservers, subject, topic, null);
};
OutputPort.prototype[receive] = OutputPort.receive;
exports.OutputPort = OutputPort;