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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;
+};