Mozilla/mozilla/xpfe/components/autocomplete/public/nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession.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 "nsIAutoCompleteSession.idl"
// forward decls
//
interface nsILDAPURL;
interface nsILDAPAutoCompFormatter;
/**
* Extends nsIAutoCompleteSession to have various LDAP-specific parameters.
* and output format.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(82b6a78e-1dd2-11b2-a3d0-876e20e7b350)]
interface nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession : nsIAutoCompleteSession {
/**
* A template used to construct the RFC 1960 LDAP search filter to use
* while autocompleting.
*
* The authoritative documentation for the format in use can be found at
* at <http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/dirsdk/csdk41/html/filter.htm>.
* The Linux/OpenLDAP man page for ldapfilter.conf(5) does a pretty decent
* job as well, however.
*
* As of this writing, the "@mozilla.org/autocompleteSession;1?type=ldap"
* contractid happens to use a default value of
* (|(cn=%v1*%v2-*)(mail=%v1*%v2-*)(sn=%v1*%v2-*))
*
* @exception NS_ERROR_NULL_POINTER NULL pointer passed to getter
* @exception NS_ERROR_OUT_OF_MEMORY Getter couldn't allocate string
*/
attribute wstring filterTemplate;
/**
* At most this many nsIAutoCompleteItems will be returned. This
* is useful for keeping bandwidth usage over slow-speed
* connections as well as ensuring that the number of choices
* offered in the UI is manageble.
*
* 1-65535 are interpreted literally
* 0 means "unlimited"
* -1 uses the default limit for the LDAP connection in use
*
* @exception NS_ERROR_NULL_POINTER NULL pointer passed to getter
* @exception NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE Out-of-range value passed to setter
*/
attribute long maxHits;
/**
* Strings shorter than this will return |nsIAutoCompleteStatus::ignored|
* rather than triggering a search. This allows browsers to be
* configured to not search on substrings so short that they
* aren't indexed by the LDAP server (such searches can use
* significantly more server resources and return a very large
* number of entries). cjkMinStringLength is used for CJK
* languages, and minStringLength for everything else. As of this
* writing, the "@mozilla.org/autocompleteSession;1?type=ldap"
* contractid uses defaults of two and zero, respectively. This
* avoids most unindexed searches with at least one widely-deployed
* webserver, but allows CJK languages, where a single glyph can be an
* an entire name to still get results.
*
* @exception NS_ERROR_NULL_POINTER NULL pointer passed to getter
*/
attribute unsigned long minStringLength;
attribute unsigned long cjkMinStringLength;
/**
* LDAP server to complete against, in ldap: URL format.
* May change to an nsILDAPServer once that infrastructure lands.
*
* @exception NS_ERROR_NULL_POINTER NULL pointer passed to getter
*/
attribute nsILDAPURL serverURL;
/**
* Callback used to format an individual LDAP message into an
* nsIAutoCompleteItem.
*/
attribute nsILDAPAutoCompFormatter formatter;
};