Issue #1258 - Part 1: Import mailnews, ldap, and mork from comm-esr52.9.1

mailnews/import/public/nsIImportABDescriptor.idl

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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* 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/. */
+
+/*
+
+  Interface for importing mail - ui provided by the import module.  If
+  you wish to provide your own UI then implement the nsIImportGeneric
+  interface.
+
+  Can I get an attribute set method to take a const value???
+
+ */
+
+#include "nsISupports.idl"
+
+interface nsIFile;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation Note:
+ *
+ * The default implementation can be obtained from
+ * nsIImportService::CreateNewABDescriptor();
+ *
+ * You should only be interested in using this class if you implement
+ * the nsIImportAddressBooks interface in which case, just using the service to
+ * create new ones should work fine for you.  If not, implement your
+ * own.
+ */
+[scriptable, uuid(2d8983b2-cea6-4ae2-9145-eb772481fa18)]
+interface nsIImportABDescriptor : nsISupports
+{
+  /**
+   *  use the following 2 attributes however you'd like to
+   * refer to a specific address book
+   */
+  attribute unsigned long identifier;
+  attribute unsigned long ref;
+
+  /**
+   * Doesn't have to be accurate, this is merely used to report progress.
+   * If you're importing a file, using file size and reporting progress
+   * as the number of bytes processed so far makes sense.  For other formats
+   * returning the number of records may make more sense.
+   */
+  attribute unsigned long size;
+
+  /**
+   * The preferred name for this address book.  Depending upon how the
+   * user selected import, the caller of the nsIImportAddressBooks interface
+   * may use this name to create the destination address book or it may
+   * ignore it.  However, this must be provided in all cases as it is
+   * also displayed in the UI to the user.
+   */
+  attribute AString preferredName;
+
+  /**
+   * For address books that want a file descriptor to locate the address book.
+   * For formats that do not, use identifier & ref to refer to the address book
+   * OR implement your own nsIImportABDescriptor that contains additional data
+   * necessary to identify specific address books,
+   */
+  attribute nsIFile abFile;
+
+  /**
+   * Set by the UI to indicate whether or not this address book should be imported.
+   */
+   attribute boolean import;
+};