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1/** @file
2 * MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer - COM initialization / shutdown.
3 */
4
5/*
6 * Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Oracle Corporation
7 *
8 * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
9 * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
10 * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
11 * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
12 * Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
13 * VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
14 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
15 *
16 * The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
17 * of the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0
18 * (CDDL) only, as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file of the
19 * VirtualBox OSE distribution, in which case the provisions of the
20 * CDDL are applicable instead of those of the GPL.
21 *
22 * You may elect to license modified versions of this file under the
23 * terms and conditions of either the GPL or the CDDL or both.
24 */
25
26#ifndef ___VBox_com_com_h
27#define ___VBox_com_com_h
28
29#include "VBox/com/defs.h"
30
31/** @defgroup grp_com MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer
32 * @{
33 */
34
35namespace com
36{
37
38/**
39 * Initializes the COM runtime.
40 * Must be called on the main thread, before any COM activity in any thread, and by any thread
41 * willing to perform COM operations.
42 *
43 * @param fGui if call is performed on the GUI thread
44 * @param fAutoRegUpdate if to do auto MS COM registration updates.
45 * @return COM result code
46 */
47HRESULT Initialize(bool fGui = false, bool fAutoRegUpdate = true);
48
49/**
50 * Shuts down the COM runtime.
51 * Must be called on the main thread before termination.
52 * No COM calls may be made in any thread after this method returns.
53 */
54HRESULT Shutdown();
55
56/**
57 * Resolves a given interface ID to a string containing the interface name.
58 * If, for some reason, the given IID cannot be resolved to a name, a NULL
59 * string is returned. A non-NULL string returned by this function must be
60 * freed using SysFreeString().
61 *
62 * @param aIID ID of the interface to get a name for
63 * @param aName Resolved interface name or @c NULL on error
64 */
65void GetInterfaceNameByIID(const GUID &aIID, BSTR *aName);
66
67/**
68 * Returns the VirtualBox user home directory.
69 *
70 * On failure, this function will return a path that caused a failure (or
71 * NULL if the failure is not path-related).
72 *
73 * On success, this function will try to create the returned directory if it
74 * doesn't exist yet. This may also fail with the corresponding status code.
75 *
76 * If @a aDirLen is smaller than RTPATH_MAX then there is a great chance that
77 * this method will return VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW.
78 *
79 * @param aDir Buffer to store the directory string in UTF-8 encoding.
80 * @param aDirLen Length of the supplied buffer including space for the
81 * terminating null character, in bytes.
82 * @param fCreateDir Flag whether to create the returned directory on success if it
83 * doesn't exist.
84 * @return VBox status code.
85 */
86int GetVBoxUserHomeDirectory(char *aDir, size_t aDirLen, bool fCreateDir = true);
87
88/**
89 * Creates a release log file, used both in VBoxSVC and in API clients.
90 *
91 * @param pcszEntity Human readable name of the program.
92 * @param pcszLogFile Name of the release log file.
93 * @param fFlags Logger instance flags.
94 * @param pcszGroupSettings Group logging settings.
95 * @param pcszEnvVarBase Base environment variable name for the logger.
96 * @param fDestFlags Logger destination flags.
97 * @param cMaxEntriesPerGroup Limit for log entries per group. UINT32_MAX for no limit.
98 * @param cHistory Number of old log files to keep.
99 * @param uHistoryFileTime Maximum amount of time to put in a log file.
100 * @param uHistoryFileSize Maximum size of a log file before rotating.
101 * @param pszError In case of creation failure: buffer for error message.
102 * @param cbError Size of error message buffer.
103 * @return VBox status code.
104 */
105int VBoxLogRelCreate(const char *pcszEntity, const char *pcszLogFile,
106 uint32_t fFlags, const char *pcszGroupSettings,
107 const char *pcszEnvVarBase, uint32_t fDestFlags,
108 uint32_t cMaxEntriesPerGroup, uint32_t cHistory,
109 uint32_t uHistoryFileTime, uint64_t uHistoryFileSize,
110 char *pszError, size_t cbError);
111
112} /* namespace com */
113
114/** @} */
115#endif
116
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