nsIExternalHelperAppService
| IID: | 0ea90cf3-2dd9-470f-8f76-f141743c5678 |
| Inherits From: | nsISupports |
The external helper app service is used for finding and launching platform specific external applications for a given mime content type.
This interface is intended to be used as a service. To create an object implementing this interface:
var obj = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/uriloader/external-helper-app-service;1"].
getService(Components.interfaces.nsIExternalHelperAppService);This interface is implemented by the following components:
Methods
PRBool applyDecodingForExtension ( AUTF8String extension , ACString encodingType )
nsIStreamListener doContent ( ACString mimeContentType , nsIRequest request , nsIInterfaceRequestor windowContext )
PRBool applyDecodingForExtension ( AUTF8String extension , ACString encodingType )
Returns true if data from a URL with this extension combination is to be decoded from encodingType prior to saving or passing off to helper apps, false otherwise.
- Arguments:
- extension
- encodingType
nsIStreamListener doContent ( ACString mimeContentType , nsIRequest request , nsIInterfaceRequestor windowContext )
Binds an external helper application to a stream listener. The caller should pump data into the returned stream listener. When the OnStopRequest is issued, the stream listener implementation will launch the helper app with this data.
- Arguments:
- mimeContentType: The content type of the incoming data
- request: The request corresponding to the incoming data
- windowContext: Use GetInterface to retrieve properties like the dom window or parent window... The service might need this in order to bring up dialogs.
- Returns:
- nsIStreamListener which the caller should pump the data into.
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