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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
+/* 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"
+
+%{C++
+#include "nsDependentString.h"
+#include <stdio.h>
+%}
+
+interface nsIFile;
+[ptr] native FILE(FILE);
+
+/**
+ * A simple interface for writing to a .gz file.
+ *
+ * Note that the file that this interface produces has a different format than
+ * what you'd get if you compressed your data as a gzip stream and dumped the
+ * result to a file.
+ *
+ * The standard gunzip tool cannot decompress a raw gzip stream, but can handle
+ * the files produced by this interface.
+ */
+[scriptable, uuid(6bd5642c-1b90-4499-ba4b-199f27efaba5)]
+interface nsIGZFileWriter : nsISupports
+{
+ /**
+ * Initialize this object. We'll write our gzip'ed data to the given file,
+ * overwriting its contents if the file exists.
+ *
+ * init() will return an error if called twice. It's an error to call any
+ * other method on this interface without first calling init().
+ */
+ [must_use] void init(in nsIFile file);
+
+ /**
+ * Alternate version of init() for use when the file is already opened;
+ * e.g., with a FileDescriptor passed over IPC.
+ */
+ [noscript, must_use] void initANSIFileDesc(in FILE file);
+
+ /**
+ * Write the given string to the file.
+ */
+ [must_use] void write(in AUTF8String str);
+
+ /*
+ * The following two overloads of Write() are C++ because we can't overload
+ * methods in XPIDL. Anyway, they don't add much functionality for JS
+ * callers.
+ */
+ %{C++
+ /**
+ * Write the given char* to the file (not including the null-terminator).
+ */
+ MOZ_MUST_USE nsresult Write(const char* str)
+ {
+ return Write(str, strlen(str));
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Write |length| bytes of |str| to the file.
+ */
+ MOZ_MUST_USE nsresult Write(const char* str, uint32_t len)
+ {
+ return Write(nsDependentCString(str, len));
+ }
+ %}
+
+ /**
+ * Close this nsIGZFileWriter. Classes implementing nsIGZFileWriter will run
+ * this method when the underlying object is destroyed, so it's not strictly
+ * necessary to explicitly call it from your code.
+ *
+ * It's an error to call this method twice, and it's an error to call write()
+ * after finish() has been called.
+ */
+ void finish();
+};