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/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
#include "nsISupports.idl"
interface nsIURI;
interface nsIInputStream;
[scriptable, uuid(5799251f-5b55-4df7-a9e7-0c27812c469a)]
interface nsISearchSubmission : nsISupports
{
/**
* The POST data associated with a search submission, wrapped in a MIME
* input stream. May be null.
*/
readonly attribute nsIInputStream postData;
/**
* The URI to submit a search to.
*/
readonly attribute nsIURI uri;
};
[scriptable, uuid(620bd920-0491-48c8-99a8-d6047e64802d)]
interface nsISearchEngine : nsISupports
{
/**
* Gets a nsISearchSubmission object that contains information about what to
* send to the search engine, including the URI and postData, if applicable.
*
* @param searchTerms
* The search term(s) for the submission.
*
* @param responseType [optional]
* The MIME type that we'd like to receive in response
* to this submission. If null, will default to "text/html".
*
* @param purpose [optional]
* A string that indicates the context of the search request. This may then
* be used to provide different submission data depending on the context.
*
* @returns nsISearchSubmission
* The submission data. If no appropriate submission can be determined for
* the request type, this may be null.
*/
nsISearchSubmission getSubmission(in AString searchTerms,
[optional] in AString responseType,
[optional] in AString purpose);
/**
* Returns the search term of a possible search result URI if and only if:
* - The URI has the same scheme, host, and path as the engine.
* - All query parameters of the URI have a matching name and value in the engine.
* - An exception to the equality check is the engine's termsParameterName
* value, which contains a placeholder, i.e. {searchTerms}.
* - If an engine has query parameters with "null" values, they will be ignored.
*
* @param uri
* A URI that may or may not be from a search result matching the engine.
*
* @param skipParamMatching [optional]
* Whether to skip the step to match the parameters of the input URI with
* the URI generated by the Engine. If not provided, it is assumed the
* step should not be skipped.
*
* @returns A string representing the termsParameterName value of the URI,
* or an empty string if the URI isn't matched to the engine.
*/
AString searchTermFromResult(in nsIURI uri,
[optional] in boolean skipParamMatching);
/**
* Returns the name of the parameter used for the search terms for a submission
* URL of type `SearchUtils.URL_TYPE.SEARCH`.
*
* @returns A string which is the name of the parameter, or empty string
* if no parameter can be found or is not supported (e.g. POST).
*/
readonly attribute AString searchUrlQueryParamName;
/**
* Returns the public suffix for the submission URL of type
* `SearchUtils.URL_TYPE.SEARCH`.
*
* @returns A string which is a known public suffix, or empty string
* if one cannot be found.
*/
readonly attribute AString searchUrlPublicSuffix;
/**
* Determines whether the engine can return responses in the given
* MIME type. Returns true if the engine spec has a URL with the
* given responseType, false otherwise.
*
* @param responseType
* The MIME type to check for
*/
boolean supportsResponseType(in AString responseType);
/**
* Returns a string with the URL to an engine's icon matching both width and
* height. Returns undefined if icon with specified dimensions is not found.
*
* @param preferredWidth
* Width of the requested icon. If not specified, it is assumed that
* 16x16 is desired.
*/
Promise getIconURL([optional] in unsigned short preferredWidth);
/**
* Opens a speculative connection to the engine's search URI
* (and suggest URI, if different) to reduce request latency
*
* @param options
* An object that must contain the following fields:
* {window} the content window for the window performing the search
* {originAttributes} the originAttributes for performing the search
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if options is omitted or lacks required
* elemeents
*/
void speculativeConnect(in jsval options);
/**
* A user defined alias for the engine.
* When not an empty string, this should be a unique identifier.
*/
attribute AString alias;
/**
* An array of aliases including the user defined alias and
* ones specified by the webextensions keywords field.
*/
readonly attribute Array<AString> aliases;
/**
* A text description describing the engine.
*/
readonly attribute AString description;
/**
* Whether the engine should be hidden from the user.
*/
attribute boolean hidden;
/**
* Whether the associated one off button should be hidden from the user.
*/
attribute boolean hideOneOffButton;
/**
* The display name of the search engine. This is a unique identifier.
*/
readonly attribute AString name;
/**
* The display of the search engine id. This is a unique identifier.
*/
readonly attribute AString id;
/**
* The identifier to use for this engine when submitting to telemetry.
*/
readonly attribute AString telemetryId;
/**
* An optional unique identifier for this search engine within the context of
* the distribution, as provided by the distributing entity.
*/
readonly attribute AString identifier;
/**
* Whether or not this engine is provided by the application, e.g. it is
* in the list of configured search engines.
*/
readonly attribute boolean isAppProvided;
/**
* Whether or not this engine is an in-memory only search engine.
* These engines are typically application provided or policy engines,
* where they are loaded every time on SearchService initialization
* using the policy JSON or the extension manifest. Minimal details of the
* in-memory engines are saved to disk, but they are never loaded
* from the user's saved settings file.
*/
readonly attribute boolean inMemory;
/**
* Whether or not this engine is a "general" search engine, e.g. is it for
* generally searching the web, or does it have a specific purpose like
* shopping.
*/
readonly attribute boolean isGeneralPurposeEngine;
/**
* The domain from which search results are returned for this engine.
*
* @return the domain of the the search URL.
*/
readonly attribute AString searchUrlDomain;
/**
* The URL to report the search to.
*
* @return the reporting URL.
*/
readonly attribute AString clickUrl;
/**
* The URL of the homepage of the engine. Defaults to the pre path
* of the search URL but search engines can specify an arbitrary URL.
*
* @return the URL of the search engine home page.
*/
readonly attribute AString searchForm;
};
[scriptable, uuid(0dc93e51-a7bf-4a16-862d-4b3469ff6206)]
interface nsISearchParseSubmissionResult : nsISupports
{
/**
* The search engine associated with the URL passed in to
* nsISearchEngine::parseSubmissionURL, or null if the URL does not represent
* a search submission.
*/
readonly attribute nsISearchEngine engine;
/**
* String containing the sought terms. This can be an empty string in case no
* terms were specified or the URL does not represent a search submission.
*/
readonly attribute AString terms;
/**
* The name of the query parameter used by `engine` for queries. E.g. "q".
*/
readonly attribute AString termsParameterName;
};
[scriptable, uuid(0301834b-2630-440e-8b98-db8dc55f34b9)]
interface nsISearchService : nsISupports
{
const unsigned long ERROR_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE = 0x1;
const unsigned long ERROR_DUPLICATE_ENGINE = 0x2;
const unsigned long ERROR_ENGINE_CORRUPTED = 0x3;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_UNKNOWN = 0x0;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_USER = 0x1;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_USER_PRIVATE_SPLIT = 0x2;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_USER_SEARCHBAR = 0x3;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_USER_SEARCHBAR_CONTEXT = 0x4;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_ADDON_INSTALL = 0x5;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_ADDON_UNINSTALL = 0x6;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_CONFIG = 0x7;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_LOCALE = 0x8;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_REGION = 0x9;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_EXPERIMENT = 0xA;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_ENTERPRISE = 0xB;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_UITOUR = 0xC;
const unsigned short CHANGE_REASON_ENGINE_UPDATE = 0xD;
/**
* Start asynchronous initialization.
*
* The promise is resolved once initialization is complete, which may be
* immediately, if initialization has already been completed by some previous
* call to this method.
* This method should only be called when you need or want to wait for the
* full initialization of the search service.
*/
Promise init();
/**
* A promise that is resolved when initialization has finished, but does not
* trigger initialization to begin.
*
* @returns {Promise}
* Resolved when initalization has successfully finished, and rejected if it
* has failed.
*/
readonly attribute Promise promiseInitialized;
/**
* Determine whether initialization has been completed.
*
* Clients of the service can use this attribute to quickly determine whether
* initialization is complete, and decide to trigger some immediate treatment,
* to launch asynchronous initialization or to bailout.
*
* Note that this attribute does not indicate that initialization has succeeded.
*
* @return |true| if the search service is now initialized, |false| if
* initialization has not been triggered yet.
*/
readonly attribute boolean isInitialized;
/**
* Determine whether initialization has been completed successfully.
*
*/
readonly attribute boolean hasSuccessfullyInitialized;
/**
* Runs background checks; Designed to be run on idle.
*/
Promise runBackgroundChecks();
/**
* Resets the default engine to its app default engine value.
*/
Promise resetToAppDefaultEngine();
/**
* Adds a new Open Search engine from the file at the supplied URI.
*
* @param engineURL
* The URL to the search engine's description file.
*
* @param iconURL
* A URL string to an icon file to be used as the search engine's
* icon. This value may be overridden by an icon specified in the
* engine description file.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if the description file cannot be successfully
* loaded.
*/
Promise addOpenSearchEngine(in AString engineURL, in AString iconURL);
/**
* Adds a new search engine defined by the user.
*
* @param name
* The name of the engine.
* @param url
* The url of the engine with %s denoting where to
* replace the search term.
* @param alias [optional]
* The alias to refer to the engine.
*/
Promise addUserEngine(in AString name,
in AString url,
[optional] in AString alias);
/**
* Adds search providers to the search service. If the search
* service is configured to load multiple locales for the extension,
* it may load more than one search engine. If called directly
* ensure the extension has been initialised.
*
* @param extension
* The extension to load from.
* @returns Promise that resolves when finished.
*/
Promise addEnginesFromExtension(in jsval extension);
/**
* Un-hides all engines in the set of engines returned by getAppProvidedEngines.
*/
void restoreDefaultEngines();
/**
* Returns an engine with the specified alias.
*
* @param alias
* The search engine's alias.
* @returns The corresponding nsISearchEngine object, or null if it doesn't
* exist.
*/
Promise getEngineByAlias(in AString alias);
/**
* Returns an engine with the specified name.
*
* @param aEngineName
* The name of the engine.
* @returns The corresponding nsISearchEngine object, or null if it doesn't
* exist.
*/
nsISearchEngine getEngineByName(in AString aEngineName);
/**
* Returns an engine with the specified Id.
*
* @param aEngineId
* The Id of the engine.
* @returns The corresponding nsISearchEngine object, or null if it doesn't
* exist.
*/
nsISearchEngine getEngineById(in AString aEngineId);
/**
* Returns an array of all installed search engines.
* The array is sorted either to the user requirements or the default order.
*
* @returns an array of nsISearchEngine objects.
*/
Promise getEngines();
/**
* Returns an array of all installed search engines whose hidden attribute is
* false.
* The array is sorted either to the user requirements or the default order.
*
* @returns an array of nsISearchEngine objects.
*/
Promise getVisibleEngines();
/**
* Returns an array of all default search engines. This includes all loaded
* engines that aren't in the user's profile directory.
* The array is sorted to the default order.
*
* @returns an array of nsISearchEngine objects.
*/
Promise getAppProvidedEngines();
/**
* Returns an array of search engines installed by a given extension.
*
* @returns an array of nsISearchEngine objects.
*/
Promise getEnginesByExtensionID(in AString extensionID);
/**
* Returns an engine definition if it's search url matches the host provided.
*
* @param host
* The host to search for.
* @returns An nsISearchEngine engine object if one matched.
*/
Promise findContextualSearchEngineByHost(in AString host);
/**
* Installs an engine into the users engine list.
*
* @param engine
* An engine configuration definition.
*/
Promise addContextualSearchEngine(in jsval engine);
/**
* Moves a visible search engine.
*
* @param engine
* The engine to move.
* @param newIndex
* The engine's new index in the set of visible engines.
*
* @throws NS_ERROR_FAILURE if newIndex is out of bounds, or if engine is
* hidden.
*/
Promise moveEngine(in nsISearchEngine engine, in long newIndex);
/**
* Removes the search engine. If the search engine is installed in a global
* location, this will just hide the engine. If the engine is in the user's
* profile directory, it will be removed from disk.
*
* @param engine
* The engine to remove.
*/
Promise removeEngine(in nsISearchEngine engine);
/**
* Notify nsSearchService that an extension has been removed. Removes any
* engines that are associated with that extension.
*
* @param id
* The id of the extension.
*/
Promise removeWebExtensionEngine(in AString id);
/**
* The Application Default Engine object that is the default for this region,
* ignoring changes the user may have subsequently made.
*/
readonly attribute nsISearchEngine appDefaultEngine;
/**
* The Application Default Engine object that is the default for this region when in
* private browsing mode, ignoring changes the user may have subsequently made.
*/
readonly attribute nsISearchEngine appPrivateDefaultEngine;
/**
* The currently active search engine.
* Unless the application doesn't ship any search plugin, this should never
* be null. If the currently active engine is removed, this attribute will
* fallback first to the application default engine if it's not hidden, then to
* the first visible engine, and as a last resort it will unhide the app
* default engine.
*/
attribute nsISearchEngine defaultEngine;
Promise getDefault();
Promise setDefault(in nsISearchEngine engine, in unsigned short changeSource);
/**
* The currently active search engine for private browsing mode.
* @see defaultEngine.
*/
attribute nsISearchEngine defaultPrivateEngine;
Promise getDefaultPrivate();
Promise setDefaultPrivate(
in nsISearchEngine engine,
in unsigned short changeSource);
/**
* Whether to display the "Search in Private Window" result in the urlbar.
*/
readonly attribute boolean separatePrivateDefaultUrlbarResultEnabled;
/**
* Allows the add-on manager to discover if a WebExtension based search engine
* may change the default to an application provided search engine.
* If that WebExtension is on the allow list, then it will override the
* built-in engine's urls and parameters.
*
* @param extension
* The extension to load from.
* @returns An object with two booleans:
* - canChangeToAppProvided: indicates if the WebExtension engine may
* set the named engine as default e.g. it is application provided.
* - canInstallEngine: indicates if the WebExtension engine may be
* installed, e.g. it is not an app-provided engine.
*/
Promise maybeSetAndOverrideDefault(in jsval extension);
/**
* Gets a representation of the default engine in an anonymized JSON
* string suitable for recording in the Telemetry environment.
*
* @return {object} result
* contains anonymized info about the default engine(s).
* @return {string} result.defaultSearchEngine
* contains the telemetry id of the default engine.
* @return {object} result.defaultSearchEngineData
* contains information about the default engine:
* name, loadPath, original submissionURL
* @return {string} [result.defaultPrivateSearchEngine]
* only returned if the preference for having a separate engine in private
* mode is turned on.
* contains the telemetry id of the default engine for private browsing mode.
* @return {object} [result.defaultPrivateSearchEngineData]
* only returned if the preference for having a separate engine in private
* mode is turned on.
* contains information about the default engine for private browsing mode:
* name, loadPath, original submissionURL
*/
jsval getDefaultEngineInfo();
/**
* Determines if the provided URL represents results from a search engine, and
* provides details about the match.
*
* The lookup mechanism checks whether the domain name and path of the
* provided HTTP or HTTPS URL matches one of the known values for the visible
* search engines. The match does not depend on which of the schemes is used.
* The expected URI parameter for the search terms must exist in the query
* string, but other parameters are ignored.
*
* @param url
* String containing the URL to parse, for example
*/
nsISearchParseSubmissionResult parseSubmissionURL(in AString url);
/**
* Returns a list of alternate domains for a given search engine domain.
*
* @param domain
* The domain of the search engine.
* @returns {Array}
* An array which contains all alternate domains.
*/
Array<ACString> getAlternateDomains(in ACString domain);
};