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nsIFileOutputStream

IID:e6f68040-c7ec-11d3-8cda-0060b0fc14a3
Inherits From:nsIOutputStream

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

var obj = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1"].
            createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream);

This interface is implemented by the following components:

Methods

void init ( nsIFile file , PRInt32 ioFlags , PRInt32 perm , PRInt32 behaviorFlags )

void init ( nsIFile file , PRInt32 ioFlags , PRInt32 perm , PRInt32 behaviorFlags )

Arguments:
file: file to write to (must QI to nsILocalFile)
ioFlags: file open flags listed in prio.h (see PR_Open documentation) or -1 to open the file in default mode (PR_WRONLY | PR_CREATE_FILE | PR_TRUNCATE)
perm: file mode bits listed in prio.h or -1 to use the default permissions (0664)
behaviorFlags: flags specifying various behaviors of the class (currently none supported)

References

This interface is passed as an argument to the following methods:

nsIURLFetcher.fireURLRequest, nsIURLFetcher.initialize

Reference documentation is generated from Mozilla's source.