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1/** @file
2 * MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer:
3 * COM initialization / shutdown
4 */
5
6/*
7 * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Oracle Corporation
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
27#ifndef ___VBox_com_com_h
28#define ___VBox_com_com_h
29
30#include "VBox/com/defs.h"
31
32namespace com
33{
34
35/**
36 * Initializes the COM runtime.
37 * Must be called on the main thread, before any COM activity in any thread.
38 *
39 * @return COM result code
40 */
41HRESULT Initialize();
42
43/**
44 * Shuts down the COM runtime.
45 * Must be called on the main thread before termination.
46 * No COM calls may be made in any thread after this method returns.
47 */
48HRESULT Shutdown();
49
50/**
51 * Resolves a given interface ID to a string containing the interface name.
52 * If, for some reason, the given IID cannot be resolved to a name, a NULL
53 * string is returned. A non-NULL string returned by this function must be
54 * freed using SysFreeString().
55 *
56 * @param aIID ID of the interface to get a name for
57 * @param aName Resolved interface name or @c NULL on error
58 */
59void GetInterfaceNameByIID(const GUID &aIID, BSTR *aName);
60
61#ifdef VBOX_WITH_XPCOM
62
63/**
64 * Helper method to keep all the XPCOM headers out of include/VBox/com/ptr.h.
65 */
66HRESULT GlueCreateObjectOnServer(const CLSID &clsid,
67 const char *serverName,
68 const nsIID &id,
69 void** ppobj);
70
71/**
72 * Helper method to keep all the XPCOM headers out of include/VBox/com/ptr.h.
73 */
74HRESULT GlueCreateInstance(const CLSID &clsid,
75 const nsIID &id,
76 void** ppobj);
77
78#endif // VBOX_WITH_XPCOM
79
80/**
81 * Returns the VirtualBox user home directory.
82 *
83 * On failure, this function will return a path that caused a failure (or
84 * NULL if the failure is not path-related).
85 *
86 * On success, this function will try to create the returned directory if it
87 * doesn't exist yet. This may also fail with the corresponding status code.
88 *
89 * If @a aDirLen is smaller than RTPATH_MAX then there is a great chance that
90 * this method will return VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW.
91 *
92 * @param aDir Buffer to store the directory string in UTF-8 encoding.
93 * @param aDirLen Length of the supplied buffer including space for the
94 * terminating null character, in bytes.
95 * @return VBox status code.
96 */
97int GetVBoxUserHomeDirectory (char *aDir, size_t aDirLen);
98
99} /* namespace com */
100
101#endif
102
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