netsurf/content/hlcache.h

/*
 * Copyright 2009 John-Mark Bell <jmb@netsurf-browser.org>
 *
 * This file is part of NetSurf, http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
 *
 * NetSurf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 *
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 */

/** \file
 * High-level resource cache (interface)
 */

#ifndef NETSURF_CONTENT_HLCACHE_H_
#define NETSURF_CONTENT_HLCACHE_H_

#include "content/content.h"
#include "content/llcache.h"
#include "utils/errors.h"

/** High-level cache handle */
typedef struct hlcache_handle hlcache_handle;

/** Context for retrieving a child object */
typedef struct hlcache_child_context {
 	const char *charset;		/**< Charset of parent */
 	bool quirks;			/**< Whether parent is quirky */
} hlcache_child_context;

/** High-level cache event */
typedef struct {
	content_msg type;		/**< Event type */
	union content_msg_data data;	/**< Event data */
} hlcache_event;

/**
 * Client callback for high-level cache events
 *
 * \param handle  Handle to object generating event
 * \param event   Event data
 * \param pw      Pointer to client-specific data
 * \return NSERROR_OK on success, appropriate error otherwise.
 */
typedef nserror (*hlcache_handle_callback)(hlcache_handle *handle,
		const hlcache_event *event, void *pw); 

/** Flags for high-level cache object retrieval */
enum hlcache_retrieve_flag {
	/* Note: low-level cache retrieval flags occupy the bottom 16 bits of 
	 * the flags word. High-level cache flags occupy the top 16 bits. 
	 * To avoid confusion, high-level flags are allocated from bit 31 down. 
	 */
	/** It's permitted to convert this request into a download */
	HLCACHE_RETRIEVE_MAY_DOWNLOAD = (1 << 31)
};

/**
 * Finalise the high-level cache, destroying any remaining contents
 */
void hlcache_finalise(void);

/**
 * Drive the low-level cache poll loop, and attempt to clean the cache.
 * No guarantee is made about what, if any, cache cleaning will occur.
 *
 * \return NSERROR_OK
 */
nserror hlcache_poll(void);

/**
 * Retrieve a high-level cache handle for an object
 *
 * \param url             URL of the object to retrieve handle for
 * \param flags           Object retrieval flags
 * \param referer         Referring URL, or NULL if none
 * \param post            POST data, or NULL for a GET request
 * \param cb              Callback to handle object events
 * \param pw              Pointer to client-specific data for callback
 * \param child           Child retrieval context, or NULL for top-level content
 * \param accepted_types  Array of acceptable content types, or NULL for any
 * \param result          Pointer to location to recieve cache handle
 * \return NSERROR_OK on success, appropriate error otherwise
 *
 * Child contents are keyed on the tuple < URL, quirks >.
 * The quirks field is ignored for child contents whose behaviour is not
 * affected by quirks mode.
 *
 * The \a accepted_types array must be terminated with CONTENT_UNKNOWN
 *
 * \todo The above rules should be encoded in the handler_map.
 *
 * \todo Is there any way to sensibly reduce the number of parameters here?
 */
nserror hlcache_handle_retrieve(const char *url, uint32_t flags,
		const char *referer, llcache_post_data *post,
		hlcache_handle_callback cb, void *pw,
		hlcache_child_context *child, 
		const content_type *accepted_types, hlcache_handle **result);

/**
 * Release a high-level cache handle
 *
 * \param handle  Handle to release
 * \return NSERROR_OK on success, appropriate error otherwise
 */
nserror hlcache_handle_release(hlcache_handle *handle);

/**
 * Abort a high-level cache fetch
 *
 * \param handle  Handle to abort
 * \return NSERROR_OK on success, appropriate error otherwise
 */
nserror hlcache_handle_abort(hlcache_handle *handle);

/**
 * Replace a high-level cache handle's callback
 *
 * \param handle  Handle to replace callback of
 * \param cb      New callback routine
 * \param pw      Private data for callback
 * \return NSERROR_OK on success, appropriate error otherwise
 */
nserror hlcache_handle_replace_callback(hlcache_handle *handle,
		hlcache_handle_callback cb, void *pw);

/**
 * Retrieve a content object from a cache handle
 *
 * \param handle  Cache handle to dereference
 * \return Pointer to content object, or NULL if there is none
 *
 * \todo This may not be correct. Ideally, the client should never need to 
 * directly access a content object. It may, therefore, be better to provide a 
 * bunch of veneers here that take a hlcache_handle and invoke the 
 * corresponding content_ API. If there's no content object associated with the
 * hlcache_handle (e.g. because the source data is still being fetched, so it 
 * doesn't exist yet), then these veneers would behave as a NOP. The important 
 * thing being that the client need not care about this possibility and can 
 * just call the functions with impugnity.
 */
struct content *hlcache_handle_get_content(const hlcache_handle *handle);

#endif