Mozilla/mozilla/layout/html/forms/public/nsIFormProcessor.h
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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
/*
* The contents of this file are subject to the Netscape Public
* License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file
* except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
* the License at http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/
*
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* IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or
* implied. See the License for the specific language governing
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*
* The Original Code is mozilla.org code.
*
* The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape
* Communications Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are
* Copyright (C) 1999 Netscape Communications Corporation. All
* Rights Reserved.
*
* Contributor(s):
*/
/**
* MODULE NOTES:
* @created kmcclusk 10/19/99
*
*/
#ifndef nsIFormProcessor_h__
#define nsIFormProcessor_h__
#include "nsISupports.h"
#include "prtypes.h"
#include "nsIDOMHTMLInputElement.h"
class nsString;
class nsVector;
// {7E4BB410-8740-11d3-967F-00105A1B1B76}
#define NS_IFORMPROCESSOR_CID \
{ 0x7e4bb410, 0x8740, 0x11d3, { 0x96, 0x7f, 0x0, 0x10, 0x5a, 0x1b, 0x1b, 0x76 } }
// F11C1E20-873F-11d3-967F-00105A1B1B76
#define NS_IFORMPROCESSOR_IID \
{ 0xf11c1e20, 0x873f, 0x11d3, { 0x96, 0x7f, 0x0, 0x10, 0x5a, 0x1b, 0x1b, 0x76 } }
// XXX:In the future, we should examine combining this interface with nsIFormSubmitObserver.
// nsIFormSubmitObserver could have a before, during, and after form submission methods.
// The before and after methods would be passed a nsISupports interface. The During would
// Have the same method signature as ProcessValue.
class nsIFormProcessor : public nsISupports {
public:
NS_DEFINE_STATIC_IID_ACCESSOR(NS_IFORMPROCESSOR_IID)
/* ProcessValue is called for each name value pair that is
* about to be submitted for both "get" and "post" form submissions.
*
* The formprocessor is registered as a service that gets called for
* every form submission.
*
* @param aElement element which the attribute/value pair is submitted for
* @param aName value of the form element name attribute about to be submitted
* @param aValue On entry it contains the value about to be submitted for aName.
* On exit it contains the value which will actually be submitted for aName.
*
*/
NS_IMETHOD ProcessValue(nsIDOMHTMLElement *aElement,
const nsString& aName,
nsString& aValue) = 0;
/* Provide content for a form element. This method provides a mechanism to provide
* content which comes from a source other than the document (i.e. a local database)
*
* @param aFormType Type of form to get content for.
* @param aOptions List of nsStrings which define the contents for the form element
* @param aAttr Attribute to be attached to the form element. It is used to identify
* the form element contains non-standard content.
*/
NS_IMETHOD ProvideContent(const nsString& aFormType,
nsVector& aContent,
nsString& aAttribute) = 0;
};
#endif /* nsIFormProcessor_h__ */