nsIAutoCompleteItem format ( nsILDAPMessage message )

Returns an nsIAutoCompleteItem generated from the data in the given nsILDAPMessage.

Arguments:

message: message to be formatted

Returns:

nsIAutoCompleteItem

nsIAutoCompleteItem formatException ( PRInt32 state , nsresult errorCode )

This method formats an error condition into an nsIAutoCompleteItem for display to the user. Specifically, the state that the session was in when the error occured (aState) is formatted into a general error message which is put in the value attribute of the item, and the specific error (aErrorCode) is formatted into another message which is put in an nsISupportsString in the param attribute of the item.

Arguments:

state: state of autocomplete session when error occurred

errorCode: specific error encountered

Returns:

newly generated item

void getAttributes ( out PRUint32 count , out arrayof char* attrs )

Gets a list of all the LDAP attributes that should be requested from the LDAP server when a lookup is done. This avoids wasting server time, bandwidth, and client time processing unused attributes.

Note that this is only required to be called by the nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession implementation when the nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession::formatter IDL attribute is set. . So if for some reason, the LDAP attributes to be returned by searches has to change (eg because the user changed a preference), the nsILDAPAutoCompleteSession::formatter IDL attribute should be re-set to the same object to force a new getAttributes() call.

Arguments:

count: number of attributes in the array

attrs: list of LDAP attributes to request