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