palemoon-dev/platform/docshell/shistory/nsIGroupedSHistory.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIFrameLoader;
interface nsIPartialSHistory;

/**
 * nsIGroupedSHistory represent a combined session history across multiple
 * root docshells (usually browser tabs). The participating nsISHistory can
 * either be in chrome process or in content process, but nsIGroupedSHistory
 * itself lives in chrome process. The communication is proxyed through
 * nsIPartialSHistory.
 */
[scriptable, builtinclass, uuid(813e498d-73a8-449a-be09-6187e62c5352)]
interface nsIGroupedSHistory : nsISupports
{
  // The total number of entries of all its partial session histories.
  [infallible] readonly attribute unsigned long count;

  /**
   * Remove all partial histories after currently active one (if any) and then
   * append the given partial session history to the end of the list.
   */
  void appendPartialSessionHistory(in nsIPartialSHistory aPartialHistory);

  /**
   * Notify the grouped session history that the active partial session history
   * has been modified. All partial session histories after the active one
   * will be removed and destroy.
   */
  void onPartialSessionHistoryChange(in nsIPartialSHistory aPartialHistory);

  /**
   * Find the proper partial session history and navigate to the entry
   * corresponding to the given global index. Note it doesn't swap frameloaders,
   * but rather return the target loader for the caller to swap.
   *
   * @param aGlobalIndex        The global index to navigate to.
   * @param aTargetLoaderToSwap The owner frameloader of the to-be-navigate
   *                            partial session history.
   */
  void gotoIndex(in unsigned long aGlobalIndex, out nsIFrameLoader aTargetLoaderToSwap);
};