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/* Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 * found in the LICENSE file.
 */

/* This file defines the API for handling the passing of data types between
 * your module and the page.
 */

/* PP_VarType is an enumeration of the different types that can be contained
 * within a PP_VAR structure.
 */
enum PP_VarType {
  PP_VARTYPE_UNDEFINED = 0,
  PP_VARTYPE_NULL = 1,
  PP_VARTYPE_BOOL = 2,
  PP_VARTYPE_INT32 = 3,
  PP_VARTYPE_DOUBLE = 4,
  PP_VARTYPE_STRING = 5,
  PP_VARTYPE_OBJECT = 6
};

/* The value of a Var. */
[union] struct PP_VarValue {
  /* Value if type is PP_VARTYPE_BOOL. */
  PP_Bool as_bool;
  /* Value if type is PP_VARTYPE_INT32. */
  int32_t as_int;
  /* Value if type is PP_VARTYPE_DOUBLE. */
  double_t as_double;
  /* Internal ID for strings and objects. The identifier is an opaque handle
   * assigned by the browser to the plugin. It is guaranteed never to be 0,
   * so a plugin can initialize this ID to 0 to indicate a "NULL handle."
   */
  int64_t as_id;
};

/* The PP_VAR struct is a variant data type and can contain any
 * value of one of the types named in the PP_VarType enum. This structure is
 * for passing data between native code which can be strongly typed and the
 * browser (JavaScript) which isn't strongly typed.
 *
 * JavaScript has a "number" type for holding a number, and does not
 * differentiate between floating point and integer numbers. The
 * JavaScript operations will try to optimize operations by using
 * integers when possible, but could end up with doubles. Therefore,
 * you can't assume a numeric PP_Var will be the type you expect.
 * Your code should be capable of handling either int32_t or double for
 * numeric PP_Vars sent from JavaScript.
 */
[passByValue] struct PP_Var {
  /* Type. */
  PP_VarType type;
  /* Type-dependent value. */
  PP_VarValue value;
};