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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface calIIcalProperty;
interface calIIcalComponent;
interface calIItemBase;
interface nsIInputStream;

/**
 * An interface for parsing an ics string or stream into its items.
 * Note that this is not a service. A new instance must be created for every new
 * string or stream to be parsed.
 */
[scriptable, uuid(83e9befe-5e9e-49de-8bc2-d882f464f7e7)]
interface calIIcsParser : nsISupports
{
  /**
   * Parse an ics string into its items, and store top-level properties and
   * components that are not interpreted.
   *
   * @param aICSString
   *    The ICS string to parse
   */
  void parseString(in AString aICSString);

  /**
   * Parse an input stream.
   *
   * @see parseString
   * @param aICSString
   *    The stream to parse
   */
  void parseFromStream(in nsIInputStream aStream);

  /**
   * Get the items that were in the string or stream
   * @param aCount
   *    Will hold the number of items that were parsed
   * @param aItems
   *    The items
   */
  void getItems(out PRUint32 aCount,
                [array,size_is(aCount),retval] out calIItemBase aItems);

  /**
   * Get the top-level properties that were not interpreted as anything special
   * @param aCount
   *    Will hold the number of properties that were found
   * @param aProperties
   *    The properties
   */
  void getProperties(out PRUint32 aCount,
                     [array,size_is(aCount),retval] out calIIcalProperty aProperties);

  /**
   * Get the top-level components that were not interpreted as anything special
   * @param aCount
   *    Will hold the number of components that were found
   * @param aComponents
   *    The components
   */
  void getComponents(out PRUint32 aCount,
                     [array,size_is(aCount),retval] out calIIcalComponent aComponents);
};