695938 - XPIDL compiler should require [noscript] for nsIID

Status: NEW

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

In a very small number of places, we use nsIID directly in our IDL (rather than nsIIDRef or nsIIDPtr) for out parameters to eliminate a level of indirection (the C++ method takes an nsIID* rather than an nsIID**). XPConnect can't handle this, so it currently avoids dealing with such methods in XPCConvert::IsMethodReflectable() by examining XPT_TDP_POINTER.

However, those bits are going away in bug 692342. As such, we should enforce this in the compiler.

Comment 1

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

AFAICT, the only remaining use of nsIID in IDL files is nsIVariant::getAsArray.