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nsIAtomService

IID:8c0e6018-6a06-47f5-bfa1-2e051705c9de
Inherits From:nsISupports

This interface is intended to be used as a service. To create an object implementing this interface: 

var obj = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/atom-service;1"].
            getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAtomService);

This interface is implemented by the following components:

Methods

nsIAtom getAtom ( PRUnichar* value ) [noscript] nsIAtom getAtomUTF8 ( char* value ) nsIAtom getPermanentAtom ( PRUnichar* value ) [noscript] nsIAtom getPermanentAtomUTF8 ( char* value )

nsIAtom getAtom ( PRUnichar* value )

Version of NS_NewAtom that doesn't require linking against the XPCOM library. See nsIAtom.idl.

Arguments:
value

nsIAtom getAtomUTF8 ( char* value )

Get an atom with a utf8 string.

Arguments:
value

nsIAtom getPermanentAtom ( PRUnichar* value )

Version of NS_NewPermanentAtom that doesn't require linking against the XPCOM library. See nsIAtom.idl.

Arguments:
value

nsIAtom getPermanentAtomUTF8 ( char* value )

Arguments:
value

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