1/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ 2/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public 3 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this 4 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ 5 6#include "nsISupports.idl" 7 8/** 9 * URIs are essentially structured names for things -- anything. This interface 10 * provides accessors to get the most basic components of an URI. 11 * If you need to change some parts of the URI use nsIURIMutator. 12 * Subclasses, including nsIURL, impose greater structure on the URI. 13 * 14 * This interface follows Tim Berners-Lee's URI spec (RFC3986) [1], where the 15 * basic URI components are defined as such: 16 * <pre> 17 * ftp://username:password@hostname:portnumber/pathname?query#ref 18 * \ / \ / \ / \ /\ / \ / \ / 19 * - --------------- ------ -------- ------- --- - 20 * | | | | | | | 21 * | | | | FilePath Query Ref 22 * | | | Port \ / 23 * | | Host / ------------ 24 * | UserPass / | 25 * Scheme / Path 26 * \ / 27 * -------------------------------- 28 * | 29 * PrePath 30 * </pre> 31 * The definition of the URI components has been extended to allow for 32 * internationalized domain names [2] and the more generic IRI structure [3]. 33 * 34 * [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 35 * [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5890 36 * [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987 37 */ 38 39%{C++ 40#include "nsString.h" 41 42#undef GetPort // XXX Windows! 43#undef SetPort // XXX Windows! 44 45namespace mozilla { 46class Encoding; 47namespace ipc { 48class URIParams; 49} // namespace ipc 50} // namespace mozilla 51%} 52 53[ptr] native Encoding(const mozilla::Encoding); 54[ref] native URIParams(mozilla::ipc::URIParams); 55interface nsIURIMutator; 56 57/** 58 * nsIURI - interface for an uniform resource identifier w/ i18n support. 59 * 60 * AUTF8String attributes may contain unescaped UTF-8 characters. 61 * Consumers should be careful to escape the UTF-8 strings as necessary, but 62 * should always try to "display" the UTF-8 version as provided by this 63 * interface. 64 * 65 * AUTF8String attributes may also contain escaped characters. 66 * 67 * Unescaping URI segments is unadvised unless there is intimate 68 * knowledge of the underlying charset or there is no plan to display (or 69 * otherwise enforce a charset on) the resulting URI substring. 70 * 71 * The correct way to create an nsIURI from a string is via 72 * nsIIOService.newURI. 73 * 74 * NOTE: nsBinaryInputStream::ReadObject contains a hackaround to intercept the 75 * old (pre-gecko6) nsIURI IID and swap in the current IID instead, in order 76 * for sessionstore to work after an upgrade. If this IID is revved further, 77 * we will need to add additional checks there for all intermediate IIDs, until 78 * ContentPrincipal is fixed to serialize its URIs as nsISupports (bug 662693). 79 */ 80[scriptable, builtinclass, uuid(92073a54-6d78-4f30-913a-b871813208c6)] 81interface nsIURI : nsISupports 82{ 83 /************************************************************************ 84 * The URI is broken down into the following principal components: 85 */ 86 87 /** 88 * Returns a string representation of the URI. 89 * 90 * Some characters may be escaped. 91 */ 92 readonly attribute AUTF8String spec; 93 94%{ C++ 95 // An infallible wrapper for GetSpec() that returns a failure indication 96 // string if GetSpec() fails. It is most useful for creating 97 // logging/warning/error messages produced for human consumption, and when 98 // matching a URI spec against a fixed spec such as about:blank. 99 nsCString GetSpecOrDefault() 100 { 101 nsCString spec; 102 nsresult rv = GetSpec(spec); 103 if (NS_FAILED(rv)) { 104 spec.AssignLiteral("[nsIURI::GetSpec failed]"); 105 } 106 return spec; 107 } 108%} 109 110 /** 111 * The prePath (eg. scheme://user:password@host:port) returns the string 112 * before the path. This is useful for authentication or managing sessions. 113 * 114 * Some characters may be escaped. 115 */ 116 readonly attribute AUTF8String prePath; 117 118 /** 119 * The Scheme is the protocol to which this URI refers. The scheme is 120 * restricted to the US-ASCII charset per RFC3986. 121 */ 122 readonly attribute ACString scheme; 123 124 /** 125 * The username:password (or username only if value doesn't contain a ':') 126 * 127 * Some characters may be escaped. 128 */ 129 readonly attribute AUTF8String userPass; 130 131 /** 132 * The optional username and password, assuming the preHost consists of 133 * username:password. 134 * 135 * Some characters may be escaped. 136 */ 137 readonly attribute AUTF8String username; 138 readonly attribute AUTF8String password; 139 140 /** 141 * The host:port (or simply the host, if port == -1). 142 */ 143 readonly attribute AUTF8String hostPort; 144 145 /** 146 * The host is the internet domain name to which this URI refers. It could 147 * be an IPv4 (or IPv6) address literal. Otherwise it is an ASCII or punycode 148 * encoded string. 149 */ 150 readonly attribute AUTF8String host; 151 152 /** 153 * A port value of -1 corresponds to the protocol's default port (eg. -1 154 * implies port 80 for http URIs). 155 */ 156 readonly attribute long port; 157 158 /** 159 * The path, typically including at least a leading '/' (but may also be 160 * empty, depending on the protocol). 161 * 162 * Some characters may be escaped. 163 * 164 * This attribute contains query and ref parts for historical reasons. 165 * Use the 'filePath' attribute if you do not want those parts included. 166 */ 167 readonly attribute AUTF8String pathQueryRef; 168 169 170 /************************************************************************ 171 * An URI supports the following methods: 172 */ 173 174 /** 175 * URI equivalence test (not a strict string comparison). 176 * 177 * eg. http://foo.com:80/ == http://foo.com/ 178 */ 179 boolean equals(in nsIURI other); 180 181 /** 182 * An optimization to do scheme checks without requiring the users of nsIURI 183 * to GetScheme, thereby saving extra allocating and freeing. Returns true if 184 * the schemes match (case ignored). 185 */ 186 [infallible] boolean schemeIs(in string scheme); 187 188 /** 189 * This method resolves a relative string into an absolute URI string, 190 * using this URI as the base. 191 * 192 * NOTE: some implementations may have no concept of a relative URI. 193 */ 194 AUTF8String resolve(in AUTF8String relativePath); 195 196 197 /************************************************************************ 198 * Additional attributes: 199 */ 200 201 /** 202 * The URI spec with an ASCII compatible encoding. Host portion follows 203 * the IDNA draft spec. Other parts are URL-escaped per the rules of 204 * RFC2396. The result is strictly ASCII. 205 */ 206 readonly attribute ACString asciiSpec; 207 208 /** 209 * The host:port (or simply the host, if port == -1), with an ASCII compatible 210 * encoding. Host portion follows the IDNA draft spec. The result is strictly 211 * ASCII. 212 */ 213 readonly attribute ACString asciiHostPort; 214 215 /** 216 * The URI host with an ASCII compatible encoding. Follows the IDNA 217 * draft spec for converting internationalized domain names (UTF-8) to 218 * ASCII for compatibility with existing internet infrasture. 219 */ 220 readonly attribute ACString asciiHost; 221 222 /************************************************************************ 223 * Additional attribute & methods added for .ref support: 224 */ 225 226 /** 227 * Returns the reference portion (the part after the "#") of the URI. 228 * If there isn't one, an empty string is returned. 229 * 230 * Some characters may be escaped. 231 */ 232 readonly attribute AUTF8String ref; 233 234 /** 235 * URI equivalence test (not a strict string comparison), ignoring 236 * the value of the .ref member. 237 * 238 * eg. http://foo.com/# == http://foo.com/ 239 * http://foo.com/#aaa == http://foo.com/#bbb 240 */ 241 boolean equalsExceptRef(in nsIURI other); 242 243 /** 244 * returns a string for the current URI with the ref element cleared. 245 */ 246 readonly attribute AUTF8String specIgnoringRef; 247 248 /** 249 * Returns if there is a reference portion (the part after the "#") of the URI. 250 */ 251 readonly attribute boolean hasRef; 252 253 /************************************************************************ 254 * Additional attributes added for .query support: 255 */ 256 257 /** 258 * Returns a path including the directory and file portions of a 259 * URL. For example, the filePath of "http://host/foo/bar.html#baz" 260 * is "/foo/bar.html". 261 * 262 * Some characters may be escaped. 263 */ 264 readonly attribute AUTF8String filePath; 265 266 /** 267 * Returns the query portion (the part after the "?") of the URL. 268 * If there isn't one, an empty string is returned. 269 * 270 * Some characters may be escaped. 271 */ 272 readonly attribute AUTF8String query; 273 274 /** 275 * If the URI has a punycode encoded hostname, this will hold the UTF8 276 * representation of that hostname (if that representation doesn't contain 277 * blacklisted characters, and the network.IDN_show_punycode pref is false) 278 * Otherwise, if the hostname is ASCII, it will return the same as .asciiHost 279 */ 280 readonly attribute AUTF8String displayHost; 281 282 /** 283 * The displayHost:port (or simply the displayHost, if port == -1). 284 */ 285 readonly attribute AUTF8String displayHostPort; 286 287 /** 288 * Returns the same as calling .spec, only with a UTF8 encoded hostname 289 * (if that hostname doesn't contain blacklisted characters, and 290 * the network.IDN_show_punycode pref is false) 291 */ 292 readonly attribute AUTF8String displaySpec; 293 294 /** 295 * Returns the same as calling .prePath, only with a UTF8 encoded hostname 296 * (if that hostname doesn't contain blacklisted characters, and 297 * the network.IDN_show_punycode pref is false) 298 */ 299 readonly attribute AUTF8String displayPrePath; 300 301 /** 302 * Returns an nsIURIMutator that can be used to make changes to the URI. 303 * After performing the setter operations on the mutator, one may call 304 * mutator.finalize() to get a new immutable URI with the desired 305 * properties. 306 */ 307 nsIURIMutator mutate(); 308 309 /** 310 * Serializes a URI object to a URIParams data structure in order for being 311 * passed over IPC. For deserialization, see nsIURIMutator. 312 */ 313 [noscript, notxpcom] void serialize(in URIParams aParams); 314 315 %{C++ 316 // MOZ_DBG support 317 friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& aOut, const nsIURI& aURI) { 318 nsIURI* uri = const_cast<nsIURI*>(&aURI); 319 return aOut << "nsIURI { " << uri->GetSpecOrDefault() << " }"; 320 } 321 %} 322}; 323