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+/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:tabstop=4:
+ */
+/* 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
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#ifndef nsRemoteClient_h__
+#define nsRemoteClient_h__
+
+#include "nscore.h"
+
+/**
+ * Pure-virtual common base class for remoting implementations.
+ */
+
+class nsRemoteClient
+{
+public:
+ /**
+ * Initializes the client
+ */
+ virtual nsresult Init() = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Send a complete command line to a running instance.
+ *
+ * @param aProgram This is the preferred program that we want to use
+ * for this particular command.
+ *
+ * @param aUsername This allows someone to only talk to an instance
+ * of the server that's running under a particular username. If
+ * this isn't specified here it's pulled from the LOGNAME
+ * environmental variable if it's set.
+ *
+ * @param aProfile This allows you to specify a particular server
+ * running under a named profile. If it is not specified the
+ * profile is not checked.
+ *
+ * @param argc The number of command-line arguments.
+ *
+ * @param argv The command-line arguments.
+ *
+ * @param aDesktopStartupID the contents of the DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID environment
+ * variable defined by the Startup Notification specification
+ * http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-0.1.txt
+ *
+ * @param aResponse If there is a response, it will be here. This
+ * includes error messages. The string is allocated using stdlib
+ * string functions, so free it with free().
+ *
+ * @return true if succeeded, false if no running instance was found.
+ *
+ */
+ virtual nsresult SendCommandLine(const char *aProgram, const char *aUsername,
+ const char *aProfile,
+ int32_t argc, char **argv,
+ const char* aDesktopStartupID,
+ char **aResponse, bool *aSucceeded) = 0;
+};
+
+#endif // nsRemoteClient_h__