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authorMatt A. Tobin <email@mattatobin.com>2019-11-03 00:17:46 -0400
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Issue #1258 - Part 1: Import mailnews, ldap, and mork from comm-esr52.9.1
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
+ *
+ * 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"
+
+interface nsILDAPBERValue;
+
+
+/**
+ * nsILDAPBERElement is a wrapper interface for a C-SDK BerElement object.
+ * Typically, this is used as an intermediate object to aid in the manual
+ * construction of a BER value. Once the construction is completed by calling
+ * methods on this object, an nsILDAPBERValue can be retrieved from the
+ * asValue attribute on this interface.
+ *
+ * <http://www.mozilla.org/directory/ietf-docs/draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-05.txt>
+ * contains some documentation that mostly (but not exactly) matches
+ * the code that this wraps in section 17.
+ */
+
+[scriptable, uuid(409f5b31-c062-4d11-a35b-0a09e7967bf2)]
+interface nsILDAPBERElement : nsISupports
+{
+ /**
+ * Initialize this object. Must be called before calling any other method
+ * on this interface.
+ *
+ * @param aValue value to preinitialize with; 0 for a new empty object
+ *
+ * @exception NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED preinitialization is currently
+ * not implemented
+ * @exception NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY unable to allocate the internal
+ * BerElement
+ */
+ void init(in nsILDAPBERValue aValue);
+
+ /**
+ * Most TAG_* constants can be used in the construction or passing in of
+ * values to the aTag arguments to most of the methods in this interface.
+ */
+
+ /**
+ * When returned from a parsing method, 0xffffffff is referred to
+ * has the parse-error semantic (ie TAG_LBER_ERROR); when passing it to
+ * a construction method, it is used to mean "pick the default tag for
+ * this type" (ie TAG_LBER_DEFAULT).
+ */
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_ERROR = 0xffffffff;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_DEFAULT = 0xffffffff;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_END_OF_SEQORSET = 0xfffffffe;
+
+ /**
+ * BER encoding types and masks
+ */
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_PRIMITIVE = 0x00;
+
+ /**
+ * The following two tags are carried over from the LDAP C SDK; their
+ * exact purpose there is not well documented. They both have
+ * the same value there as well.
+ */
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_CONSTRUCTED = 0x20;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_ENCODING_MASK = 0x20;
+
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_BIG_TAG_MASK = 0x1f;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_MORE_TAG_MASK = 0x80;
+
+ /**
+ * general BER types we know about
+ */
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_BOOLEAN = 0x01;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_INTEGER = 0x02;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_BITSTRING = 0x03;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_OCTETSTRING = 0x04;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_NULL = 0x05;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_ENUMERATED = 0x0a;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_SEQUENCE = 0x30;
+ const unsigned long TAG_LBER_SET = 0x31;
+
+ /**
+ * Write a string to this element.
+ *
+ * @param aString string to write
+ * @param aTag tag for this string (if TAG_LBER_DEFAULT is used,
+ * TAG_LBER_OCTETSTRING will be written).
+ *
+ * @return number of bytes written
+ *
+ * @exception NS_ERROR_FAILUE C-SDK returned error
+ */
+ unsigned long putString(in AUTF8String aString, in unsigned long aTag);
+
+ /**
+ * Start a set. Sets may be nested.
+ *
+ * @param aTag tag for this set (if TAG_LBER_DEFAULT is used,
+ * TAG_LBER_SET will be written).
+ *
+ * @exception NS_ERROR_FAILUE C-SDK returned an error
+ */
+ void startSet(in unsigned long aTag);
+
+ /**
+ * Cause the entire set started by the last startSet() call to be written.
+ *
+ * @exception NS_ERROR_FAILUE C-SDK returned an error
+ *
+ * @return number of bytes written
+ */
+ unsigned long putSet();
+
+ /**
+ * an nsILDAPBERValue version of this element. Calls ber_flatten() under
+ * the hood.
+ *
+ * @exception NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY
+ */
+ readonly attribute nsILDAPBERValue asValue;
+};