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#ifndef __com_sun_star_ucb_XCommandProcessor_idl__
#define __com_sun_star_ucb_XCommandProcessor_idl__

#ifndef __com_sun_star_uno_XInterface_idl__
#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
#endif

#ifndef __com_sun_star_ucb_XCommandEnvironment_idl__
#include <com/sun/star/ucb/XCommandEnvironment.idl>
#endif

#ifndef __com_sun_star_ucb_Command_idl__
#include <com/sun/star/ucb/Command.idl>
#endif

#ifndef __com_sun_star_ucb_CommandAbortedException_idl__
#include <com/sun/star/ucb/CommandAbortedException.idl>
#endif

//=============================================================================

module com { module sun { module star { module ucb {

//=============================================================================
/** defines a processor for synchronous commands, which are executed in a
    specific execution environment.

    @version  1.0
    @author   Kai Sommerfeld

    @see com::sun::star::ucb::XCommandProcessor2
    for the improved version of this interface.

    @see      Command
    @see      XCommandEnvironment
    @see      XContent
*/
published interface XCommandProcessor : com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
{
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** creates a unique identifier for a command.

        <p>This identifier can be used to abort the execution of the command
        accociated with that identifier. Note that it is generally not
        necessary to obtain a new id for each command, because commands are
        executed synchronously. So the id for a command is valid again after a
        command previously associated with this id has finished. In fact you
        only should get one identifier per thread and assign it to every
        command executed by that thread.</p>

        <p>Also, after a call to <member>XCommandProcessor::abort</member>, an
        identifier should not be used any longer (and instead be released by a
        call to <member>XCommandProcessor2::releaseCommandIdentifier</member>),
        because it may well abort <em>all</em> further calls to
        <member>XCommandProcessor::execute</member>.</p>

        <p>To avoid ever-increasing resource consumption, the identifier
        should be released via
        <member>XCommandProcessor2::releaseCommandIdentifier</member>
        when it is no longer used.</p>

        @returns
        a command identifier.
    */
    long createCommandIdentifier();

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** executes a command.

        <p>Common command definitions can be found in the soecification of the
        service <type>Content</type>.

        @param aCommand
        is the command to execute.

        @param CommandId
        is a unique id for the command. This identifier was obtained by calling
        <member>XCommandProcessor::createCommandIdentifier</member>. A value of
        zero can be used, if the command never shall be aborted. Different
        threads MUST NOT share one command identifier (except <code>0</code>).
        This can easily achieved, if every thread that wants to use an
        <type>XCommandProcessor</type>, obtains exactly one identifier
        using <member>XCommandProcessor::createCommandIdentifier</member>.
        This identifier can be used for every call to
        <member>XCommandProcessor::execute</member> done by that thread.

        @param Environment
        is the execution environment.

        @returns
        the result according to the specification of the command.

        @throws CommandAbortedException
        to indicate that the command was aborted.

        @throws DuplicateCommandIdentifierException
        to indicate that two threads tried to use the same command identifier

        @throws Exception
        if an error occured during the execution of the command.
    */
    any execute( [in] Command aCommand,
                 [in] long CommandId,
                 [in] XCommandEnvironment Environment )
        raises ( com::sun::star::uno::Exception, CommandAbortedException );

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** ends the command associated with the given id.

        <p>Not every command can be aborted. It's up to the implementation
        to decide whether this method will actually end the processing of
        the command or simply do nothing.

        @param CommandId
        is a unique id for the command to abort. This must be the identifier
        passed to <member>XCommandProcessor::execute</member> for the command
        to abort.
    */
    [oneway] void abort( [in] long CommandId );
};

//=============================================================================

}; }; }; };

#endif