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- /* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
- /* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK *****
- * Version: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
- *
- * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version
- * 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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- *
- * The Original Code is Mozilla FastLoad code.
- *
- * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is
- * Netscape Communications Corporation.
- * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2001
- * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * Contributor(s):
- * Brendan Eich <brendan@mozilla.org> (original author)
- *
- * Alternatively, the contents of this file may be used under the terms of
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-
- #include "nsISupports.idl"
-
- interface nsIObjectInputStream;
- interface nsIObjectOutputStream;
-
- [scriptable, uuid(91cca981-c26d-44a8-bebe-d9ed4891503a)]
- interface nsISerializable : nsISupports
- {
- /**
- * Initialize the object implementing nsISerializable, which must have
- * been freshly constructed via CreateInstance. All data members that
- * can't be set to default values must have been serialized by write,
- * and should be read from aInputStream in the same order by this method.
- */
- void read(in nsIObjectInputStream aInputStream);
-
- /**
- * Serialize the object implementing nsISerializable to aOutputStream, by
- * writing each data member that must be recovered later to reconstitute
- * a working replica of this object, in a canonical member and byte order,
- * to aOutputStream.
- *
- * NB: a class that implements nsISerializable *must* also implement
- * nsIClassInfo, in particular nsIClassInfo::GetClassID.
- */
- void write(in nsIObjectOutputStream aOutputStream);
- };
-