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1/** @file
2 * MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer:
3 * COM initialization / shutdown
4 */
5
6/*
7 * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
8 *
9 * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
10 * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
11 * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
12 * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
13 * Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
14 * VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
15 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
16 *
17 * The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
18 * of the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0
19 * (CDDL) only, as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file of the
20 * VirtualBox OSE distribution, in which case the provisions of the
21 * CDDL are applicable instead of those of the GPL.
22 *
23 * You may elect to license modified versions of this file under the
24 * terms and conditions of either the GPL or the CDDL or both.
25 *
26 * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa
27 * Clara, CA 95054 USA or visit http://www.sun.com if you need
28 * additional information or have any questions.
29 */
30
31#ifndef ___VBox_com_com_h
32#define ___VBox_com_com_h
33
34#include "VBox/com/defs.h"
35
36namespace com
37{
38
39/**
40 * Initializes the COM runtime.
41 * Must be called on every thread that uses COM, before any COM activity.
42 *
43 * @return COM result code
44 */
45HRESULT Initialize();
46
47/**
48 * Shuts down the COM runtime.
49 * Must be called on every thread before termination.
50 * No COM calls may be made after this method returns.
51 */
52HRESULT Shutdown();
53
54/**
55 * Resolves a given interface ID to a string containing the interface name.
56 * If, for some reason, the given IID cannot be resolved to a name, a NULL
57 * string is returned. A non-NULL string returned by this function must be
58 * freed using SysFreeString().
59 *
60 * @param aIID ID of the interface to get a name for
61 * @param aName Resolved interface name or @c NULL on error
62 */
63void GetInterfaceNameByIID (const GUID &aIID, BSTR *aName);
64
65/**
66 * Returns the VirtualBox user home directory.
67 *
68 * On failure, this function will return a path that caused a failure (or
69 * NULL if the failure is not path-related).
70 *
71 * On success, this function will try to create the returned directory if it
72 * doesn't exist yet. This may also fail with the corresponding status code.
73 *
74 * If @a aDirLen is smaller than RTPATH_MAX then there is a great chance that
75 * this method will return VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW.
76 *
77 * @param aDir Buffer to store the directory string in UTF-8 encoding.
78 * @param aDirLen Length of the supplied buffer including space for the
79 * terminating null character, in bytes.
80 * @return VBox status code.
81 */
82int GetVBoxUserHomeDirectory (char *aDir, size_t aDirLen);
83
84} /* namespace com */
85
86#endif
87
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