nsIComponentRegistrar

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[edit] Summary

The nsIComponentRegistrar interface provides methods to access and modify the XPCOM component registry.

#include "nsIComponentRegistrar.h"
 
[scriptable, uuid=(2417cbfe-65ad-48a6-b4b6-eb84db174392)]
interface nsIComponentRegistrar : nsISupports { ... };

[edit] Methods

autoRegister

Register a component file or all component files in a directory.

autoUnregister

Unregister a component file or all component files in a directory.

registerFactory

Registers a factory to be used to instantiate a particular class identified by ClassID, and creates an association of class name and ContractID with the class.

unregisterFactory

Unregisters a factory associated with a particular class identified by ClassID.

registerFactoryLocation

Registers a factory to be used to instantiate a particular class identified by ClassID, and creates an association of class name and ContractID with the class. However, unlike registerFactory, the location of the component containing the factory implementation is specified instead of the factory instance.

unregisterFactoryLocation

Unregisters the factory associated with a given ClassID and component file location.

isCIDRegistered

This method is used to test for the existance of a specific ClassID.

isContractIDRegistered

This method is used to test for the existance of a class implementing a specific ContractID.

enumerateCIDs

This method returns an enumerator over the list of registered ClassIDs.

enumerateContractIDs

This method returns an enumerator over the list of registered ContractIDs.

CIDToContractID

This method returns the ContractID corresponding to a given ClassID.

contractIDToCID

This method returns the ContractID corresponding to a given ClassID.

[edit] History

This interface was finalized for Mozilla 1.0. See bug 115853 for details.