7795 - exorcise nsIEnumerator in favor of nsISimpleEnumerator

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

...or some other more scripable interface.

I've started on this crusade several times only to be chopped at the knees by
lethargy or some other overwhelming circumstance.

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

I'll do it. I swear.

Comment 2

[Chris Waterson]

Moving out non-critical tasks.

Comment 3

[Chris Waterson]

*** Bug 8790 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Joseph Elwell]

In verifying bug 8790, I just wanted to point out that warren mentioned cleaning
up nsIBidirectionalEnumerator also... Including his original comment:

"Chris -- you started this, so I'll help you finish it. :-)

We should eradicate nsIEnumerator and nsIBidirectionalEnumerator from
throughout the codebase if we can, switching over to nsISimpleEnumerator.
Having both is bad because they're incompatible.

We probably should remove the class definitions from nsEnumeratorUtils.h and
replace them with function calls.

When we're done, we can rename nsISimpleEnumerator to nsIEnumerator too."

Comment 5

[Chris Waterson]

maybe scc'll do it. he's got balls.

Comment 6

[Scott Collins]

In fact, I'd like to use the even better enumerators where possible, i.e., |
nsIInputIterator|, |nsIOutputIterator|, |nsIForwardIterator|, |
nsIBidirectionalIterator|, |nsIRandomAccessIterator|, which will provide easy 
access to the |nsISimpleEnumerator| functionality that JS clients in particular 
still love

Comment 7

[Scott Collins]

mass re-assigning to my new bugzilla account

Comment 8

[Scott Collins]

I guess we missed the boat on these (by about a hemisphere).  Our collection
classes are pretty much frozen across the board; I don't see any realistic mass
resolution to this situation before 2.0.

Comment 9

[:aceman]

Should this be closed just because this didn't make 2.0?
The nsIEnumerator is still declared obsolete so this work should be done some day. I've not found any other bug for this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XPCOM_array_guide

Comment 10

[Eric Rahm [:erahm]]

Bug 792209 removed |nsIEnumerator.idl|.