Mozilla/mozilla/xpfe/components/autocomplete/public/nsILDAPAutoCompFormatter.idl

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
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* Contributor(s): Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com> (Original Author)
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*/
#include "nsISupports.idl"
interface nsIAutoCompleteItem;
interface nsILDAPMessage;
/**
* An interface to allow different users of nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession to
* format each nsILDAPMessage into an nsIAutoCompleteItem as it sees fit.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(cbec617c-22d2-4286-8308-0ef8bf57c0ce)]
interface nsILDAPAutoCompFormatter : nsISupports {
/**
* Returns an nsIAutoCompleteItem generated from the data in
* the given nsILDAPMessage.
*
* @param aMessage message to be formatted
* @return resulting nsIAutoCompleteItem
*/
nsIAutoCompleteItem format(in nsILDAPMessage aMessage);
/**
* Gets a list of all the LDAP attributes that should be requested
* from the LDAP server when a lookup is done. This avoids
* wasting server time, bandwidth, and client time processing
* unused attributes.
*
* Note that this is only required to be called by the
* nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession implementation when the
* nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession::formatter IDL attribute is set. .
* So if for some reason, the LDAP attributes to be returned by
* searches has to change (eg because the user changed a
* preference), the nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession::formatter IDL
* attribute should be re-set to the same object to force a new
* getAttributes() call.
*
* @param aCount number of attributes in the array
* @param aAttrs list of LDAP attributes to request
*/
void getAttributes(out unsigned long aCount,
[retval, array, size_is(aCount)] out string aAttrs);
/**
* This method formats an error condition into an nsIAutoCompleteItem
* for display to the user. Specifically, the state that the session
* was in when the error occured (aState) is formatted into a general
* error message which is put in the value attribute of the item,
* and the specific error (aErrorCode) is formatted into another message
* which is put in an nsISupportsWString in the param attribute of the
* item.
*
* @param aState state of autocomplete session when error occurred
* @param aErrorCode specific error encountered
*
* @return newly generated item
*/
nsIAutoCompleteItem formatException(in long aState,
in nsresult aErrorCode);
/**
* Possible states that can be passed in aState to formatException
*/
const long STATE_UNBOUND = 0;
const long STATE_INITIALIZING = 1;
const long STATE_BINDING = 2;
const long STATE_BOUND = 3;
const long STATE_SEARCHING = 4;
};