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PRenderFrame.ipdl
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 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
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include protocol PBrowser;
include protocol PLayers;

namespace mozilla {
namespace layout {

/**
 * PRenderFrame (in the layout sense of "frame") represents one web
 * "page".  It's used to graft content processes' layer trees into
 * chrome's rendering path.  The lifetime of a PRenderFrame is tied to
 * its PresShell in the child process.
 *
 * The child process conceptually "owns" a PRenderFrame, because it
 * only makes sense wrt documents loaded by the child.
 */
sync protocol PRenderFrame
{
    manager PBrowser;
    manages PLayers;

parent:
    /**
     * Shadow layer trees can be grafted into the parent's in one of
     * two ways
     *  - direct shadow tree: updates are sent to parent
     *  - indirect: the parent holds a reference (ID) to a shadow tree
     *    that's managed by the compositor.  During composition, the
     *    shadow tree is looked up and grafted appropriately
     *
     * |id| is set to 0 in the "direct" case, and to a whole number
     * in the "indirect" case.
     */
    async PLayers();

    async NotifyCompositorTransaction();

    async CancelDefaultPanZoom();
    async DetectScrollableSubframe();

    async __delete__();

state EMPTY_OR_DIRECT_COMPOSITOR:
    recv PLayers goto HAVE_CONTENT;
    recv NotifyCompositorTransaction goto EMPTY_OR_DIRECT_COMPOSITOR;
    recv __delete__;

state HAVE_CONTENT:
    recv NotifyCompositorTransaction goto HAVE_CONTENT;
    recv __delete__;
};

} // namespace layout
} // namespace mozilla
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