dom/MessagePort.idl

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[
    ActiveDOMObject,
    EventTarget
] interface MessagePort {
// We need to have something as an ObjC binding, because MessagePort is used in MessageEvent, which already has one,
// but we don't want to actually expose the API while it is in flux.
#if defined(LANGUAGE_JAVASCRIPT) && LANGUAGE_JAVASCRIPT
    [Custom] void postMessage(in any message, in [Optional] Array messagePorts)
        raises(DOMException);

    void start();
    void close();

    // event handler attributes
    attribute EventListener onmessage;

    // EventTarget interface
    void addEventListener(in DOMString type, 
                          in EventListener listener, 
                          in [Optional] boolean useCapture);
    void removeEventListener(in DOMString type, 
                             in EventListener listener, 
                             in [Optional] boolean useCapture);
    boolean dispatchEvent(in Event evt)
        raises(EventException);
#endif
};