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1/** @file
2 * MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer:
3 * COM initialization / shutdown
4 */
5
6/*
7 * Copyright (C) 2006-2007 innotek GmbH
8 *
9 * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
10 * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
11 * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
12 * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
13 * Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
14 * VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
15 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
16 *
17 * The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
18 * of the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0
19 * (CDDL) only, as it comes in the "COPYING.CDDL" file of the
20 * VirtualBox OSE distribution, in which case the provisions of the
21 * CDDL are applicable instead of those of the GPL.
22 *
23 * You may elect to license modified versions of this file under the
24 * terms and conditions of either the GPL or the CDDL or both.
25 */
26
27#ifndef ___VBox_com_com_h
28#define ___VBox_com_com_h
29
30#include "VBox/com/defs.h"
31
32namespace com
33{
34
35/**
36 * Initializes the COM runtime.
37 * Must be called on every thread that uses COM, before any COM activity.
38 *
39 * @return COM result code
40 */
41HRESULT Initialize();
42
43/**
44 * Shuts down the COM runtime.
45 * Must be called on every thread before termination.
46 * No COM calls may be made after this method returns.
47 */
48HRESULT Shutdown();
49
50/**
51 * Resolves a given interface ID to a string containing the interface name.
52 * If, for some reason, the given IID cannot be resolved to a name, a NULL
53 * string is returned. A non-NULL string returned by this funciton must be
54 * freed using SysFreeString().
55 *
56 * @param aIID ID of the interface to get a name for
57 * @param aName Resolved interface name or @c NULL on error
58 */
59void GetInterfaceNameByIID (const GUID &aIID, BSTR *aName);
60
61/**
62 * Returns the VirtualBox user home directory.
63 *
64 * On failure, this function will return a path that caused a failure (or
65 * NULL if the faiulre is not path-related).
66 *
67 * On success, this function will try to create the returned directory if it
68 * doesn't exist yet. This may also fail with the corresponding status code.
69 *
70 * If @a aDirLen is smaller than RTPATH_MAX then there is a great chance that
71 * this method will return VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW.
72 *
73 * @param aDir Buffer to store the directory string in UTF-8 encoding.
74 * @param aDirLen Length of the supplied buffer including space for the
75 * terminating null character, in bytes.
76 * @return VBox status code.
77 */
78int GetVBoxUserHomeDirectory (char *aDir, size_t aDirLen);
79
80} /* namespace com */
81
82#endif
83
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