1030576 - Broken link to "ContractID"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Franz Sarmiento]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

Reading this article: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Components.classes The first sentence, the link to ContractID which is https://developer.mozilla.org/en/ContractID leads to a 404.

It suggested a search, the first result was this link: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIClassInfo/contractID
In that link, it points to: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_Interface_Reference/nsIClassInfo#Attributes
Which I found was also broken.

Comment 1

[Greg]

I would like to add that once I got to this 404, clicking on "File a bug" also didn't work. So that's another bug.

Comment 2

[Greg]

(In reply to Greg from comment #1)
> I would like to add that once I got to this 404, clicking on "File a bug"
> also didn't work. So that's another bug.

(That's using Firefox 32.0 beta1).

Comment 3

[Florian Scholz [:fscholz] (MDN)]

Redirected https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIClassInfo/contractID to
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIClassInfo

Comment 4

[Greg]

Thanks Florian! However, it's not very clear in the new link what a ContractID is (to me), why it's needed, and what the point of it is given there's another "ClassID".

Also, what are the built-in ContractIDs? Why is there also a "Service" providers list and why are three (or more) of these types of "IDs" necessary? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/JavaScript_code_modules/Services.jsm

Also, when is mozilla going to get rid of ContractIDs, ClassIDs, Services, etc. and just have a single class metaphor like NodeJS does it?