nsIVariant
xpcom/ds/nsivariant.idlscriptable xpconnect has magic to transparently convert between nsivariant and js types.
...but we mark all the methods and attributes [noscript] since any nsivariant object will be automatically converted to a js type anyway.

nsIAnnotationService
method overview void setpageannotation(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname, in nsivariant avalue, in long aflags, in unsigned short aexpiration); void setitemannotation(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname, in nsivariant avalue, in long aflags, in unsigned short aexpiration); void setpageannotationstring(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname, in astring avalue, in long aflags, in unsigned short aexpiration); boolean setitemannotationstring(in long long ...
...g aname,[const, array, size_is(adatalen)] in octet adata, in unsigned long adatalen, in autf8string amimetype, in long aflags, in unsigned short aexpiration); void setitemannotationbinary(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname,[const, array, size_is(adatalen)] in octet adata, in unsigned long adatalen, in autf8string amimetype, in long aflags, in unsigned short aexpiration); nsivariant getpageannotation(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname); nsivariant getitemannotation(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname); astring getpageannotationstring(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname); astring getitemannotationstring(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname); long getpageannotationint32(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname); long get...
...tring name, [optional] out unsigned long resultcount, [retval, array, size_is(resultcount)] out nsiuri results); void getitemswithannotation(in autf8string name, [optional] out unsigned long resultcount, [retval, array, size_is(resultcount)] out long long results); void getpageannotationnames(in nsiuri auri, [optional] out unsigned long count, [retval, array, size_is(count)] out nsivariant result); void getitemannotationnames(in long long aitemid, [optional] out unsigned long count, [retval, array, size_is(count)] out nsivariant result); boolean pagehasannotation(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname); boolean itemhasannotation(in long long aitemid, in autf8string aname); void removepageannotation(in nsiuri auri, in autf8string aname); vo...
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nsIContentPrefService
to create an instance, use: var contentprefservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/content-pref/service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsicontentprefservice); method overview void addobserver(in astring aname, in nsicontentprefobserver aobserver); nsivariant getpref(in nsivariant agroup, in astring aname, [optional] in nsicontentprefcallback acallback); nsipropertybag2 getprefs(in nsivariant agroup); nsipropertybag2 getprefsbyname(in astring aname); boolean haspref(in nsivariant agroup, in astring aname); void removegroupedprefs(); void removeobserver(in astring aname, in nsicontentprefobserver aobserver...
...); void removepref(in nsivariant agroup, in astring aname); void removeprefsbyname(in astring aname); void setpref(in nsivariant agroup, in astring aname, in nsivariant avalue); attributes attribute type description dbconnection mozistorageconnection the database connection to the content preferences database.
... nsivariant getpref( in nsivariant agroup, in astring aname, in nsicontentprefcallback acallback optional ); parameters agroup the group for which to retrieve a preference; this may be specified as either a uri or as a string; in either case, the group consists of all sites matching the hostname portion of the specified uri.
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nsIAbCard/Thunderbird3
: anniversaryyear, anniversarymonth, anniversaryday birthyear, birthmonth, birthday webpage1 (work), webpage2 (home) custom1, custom2, custom3, custom4 notes integral properties: lastmodifieddate popularityindex prefermailformat (see nsiabprefermailformat) boolean properties: allowremotecontent inherits from: nsiabitem method overview nsivariant getproperty(in autf8string name, in nsivariant defaultvalue); [noscript] astring getpropertyasastring(in string name); [noscript] autf8string getpropertyasautf8string(in string name); [noscript] pruint32 getpropertyasuint32(in string name); [noscript] boolean getpropertyasbool(in string name); void setproperty(in autf8string name, in nsivariant value);...
... nsivariant getproperty(in autf8string name, in nsivariant defaultvalue); parameters name the case-sensitive name of the property to get.
...these functions convert values in the same manner as the default implementation of nsivariant.
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mozIStorageRow
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: mozistoragevaluearray method overview nsivariant getresultbyindex(in unsigned long aindex); nsivariant getresultbyname(in autf8string aname); methods getresultbyindex() returns the value from a specific column in the row, using a zero-based index to identify the column.
... nsivariant getresultbyindex( in unsigned long aindex ); parameters aindex the zero-based index of the column number whose value is to be returned.
... return value an nsivariant object containing the value of the specified column.
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nsIScriptableIO
erence as with other components: var scriptableio = components.classes["@mozilla.org/io/scriptable-io;1"] .getservice(); scriptableio.getfile("profile", "cookies.txt"); method overview nsifile getfile(in astring alocation, in astring afilename); nsifile getfilewithpath(in astring afilepath); nsisupports newinputstream(in nsivariant abase, in astring amode, [optional] in astring acharset, [optional] in astring areplacechar, [optional] in unsigned long abuffersize); nsisupports newoutputstream(in nsivariant abase, in astring amode, [optional] in astring acharset, [optional] in astring areplacechar, [optional] in unsigned long abuffersize, [optional] in unsigned long apermissions); nsiuri newuri...
...(in nsivariant auri); methods getfile() retrieves a reference to a file or directory on disk.
... nsiuri newuri( in nsivariant auri ); parameters auri the file for which to create a new nsiuri object.
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nsIStructuredCloneContainer
method overview nsivariant deserializetovariant(); astring getdataasbase64(); void initfrombase64(in astring adata,in unsigned long aformatversion); void initfromvariant(in nsivariant adata); attributes attribute type description formatversion unsigned long get the version of the structured clone algorithm which was used to generate this container's serialized buffer.
... methods deserializetovariant() deserialize the object this container holds, returning it wrapped as an nsivariant.
... nsivariant deserializetovariant(); parameters none.
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nsITaggingService
to use this service, use: var taggingsvc = components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/tagging-service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsitaggingservice); method overview void taguri(in nsiuri auri, in nsivariant atags); void untaguri(in nsiuri auri, in nsivariant atags); nsivariant geturisfortag(in astring atag); nsivariant gettagsforuri(in nsiuri auri, [optional] out unsigned long length, [retval, array, size_is(length)] out wstring atags); attributes attribute type description alltags nsivariant ...
... void taguri( in nsiuri auri, in nsivariant atags ); parameters auri the url to tag.
... void untaguri( in nsiuri auri, in nsivariant atags ); parameters auri the url to un-tag.
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nsIXPConnect
nsixpconnectjsobjectholder holdobject(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr aobject); void initclasses(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr aglobaljsobj); nsixpconnectjsobjectholder initclasseswithnewwrappedglobal(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in nsisupports acomobj, in nsiidref aiid, in nsiprincipal aprincipal, in nsisupports aextraptr, in pruint32 aflags); nsivariant jstovariant(in jscontextptr ctx, in jsval value); nsivariant jsvaltovariant(in jscontextptr cx, in jsvalptr ajsval); void movewrappers(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr aoldscope, in jsobjectptr anewscope); [noscript,notxpcom] void notejscontext(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in nscctraversalcallbackref acb); void releasejscontext(in jscontextptr ajsc...
... obsolete since gecko 2.0 jsval varianttojs(in jscontextptr ctx, in jsobjectptr scope, in nsivariant value); void wrapjs(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr ajsobj, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); void wrapjsaggregatedtonative(in nsisupports aouter, in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr ajsobj, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); nsixpconnectjsobjectholder wrapnative(in jscontextptr ajscontext, in...
... return value missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description jstovariant() nsivariant jstovariant( in jscontextptr ctx, in jsval value ); parameters ctx missing description value missing description return value missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description jsvaltovariant() wraps the given jsval in an nsivariant and returns the new variant.
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extIPreferenceBranch
method overview boolean has(in astring aname) extipreference get(in astring aname) nsivariant getvalue(in astring aname, in nsivariant adefaultvalue) void setvalue(in astring aname, in nsivariant avalue) void reset() attributes attribute type description root readonly attribute astring the name of the branch root.
... all readonly attribute nsivariant array of extipreference listing all preferences in this branch.
... nsivariant getvalue(in astring aname, in nsivariant adefaultvalue) parameters aname the name of a preference adefaultvalue the default value of a preference.
... void setvalue(in astring aname, in nsivariant avalue) parameters aname the name of a preference avalue the value of a preference return value reset() resets all preferences in a branch back to their default values.

amIWebInstallListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview boolean onwebinstallblocked(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); void onwebinstalldisabled(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); boolean onwebinstallrequested(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); note: prior to gecko 8.0, al...
...boolean onwebinstallblocked( in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, in pruint32 acount optional ); parameters awindow the window that triggered the installs.
...void onwebinstalldisabled( in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, in pruint32 acount optional ); parameters awindow the window that triggered the installs.
...boolean onwebinstallrequested( in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, in pruint32 acount optional ); parameters awindow the window that triggered the installs.

mozIStorageBindingParams
method overview void bindbyindex(in unsigned long aindex, in nsivariant avalue); void bindblobbyindex(in unsigned long aindex, [array, const, size_is(avaluesize)] in octet avalue, in unsigned long avaluesize); void binddoublebyindex(in unsigned long aindex, in double avalue); native code only!
... void bindbyname(in autf8string aname, in nsivariant avalue); void bindblobbyname(in autf8string aname, [array, const, size_is(avaluesize)] in octet avalue, in unsigned long avaluesize); void binddoublebyname(in autf8string aname, in double avalue); native code only!
... void bindbyindex( in unsigned long aindex, in nsivariant avalue ); parameters aindex the zero-based numerical index for the parameter to be bound.
... void bindbyname( in autf8string aname, in nsivariant avalue ); parameters aname the name of the named index for the parameter to be bound.

mozIStorageFunction
last changed in gecko 1.9.1.4 (firefox 3.5.4) inherits from: nsisupports method overview nsivariant onfunctioncall(in mozistoragevaluearray afunctionarguments); methods onfunctioncall() the implementation of the function.
... nsivariant onfunctioncall( in mozistoragevaluearray afunctionarguments ); parameters afunctionarguments a mozistoragevaluearray holding the arguments passed in to the function.
... return value an nsivariant this is the return value of the function.
...class squarefunction : public mozistoragefunction { public: ns_imethod onfunctioncall(mozistoragevaluearray *aarguments, nsivariant **_result) { print32 value; nsresult rv = aarguments->getint32(&value); ns_ensure_success(rv, rv); nscomptr<nsiwritablevariant> result = do_createinstance("@mozilla.org/variant;1"); ns_ensure_true(result, ns_error_out_of_memory); rv = result->setasint64(value * value); ns_ensure_success(rv, rv); ns_addref(*_result = result); return ns_ok; } }; // ...

nsIXSLTProcessor
to create an instance, use: var xsltprocessor = components.classes["@mozilla.org/document-transformer;1?type=xslt"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsixsltprocessor); method overview void clearparameters(); nsivariant getparameter(in domstring namespaceuri, in domstring localname); void importstylesheet(in nsidomnode style); void removeparameter(in domstring namespaceuri, in domstring localname); void reset(); void setparameter(in domstring namespaceuri, in domstring localname, in nsivariant value); nsidomdocument transformtodocument(in nsidomnode source); nsidomdocumentfragment transformtofragment...
...nsivariant getparameter( in domstring namespaceuri, in domstring localname ); parameters namespaceuri the namespaceuri of the xslt parameter.
... return value an nsivariant containing the value of the parameter.
...void setparameter( in domstring namespaceuri, in domstring localname, in nsivariant value ); parameters namespaceuri the namespaceuri of the xslt parameter.

XUL Questions and Answers - Archive of obsolete content
for more information please look at the following link: nsextensionmanager.js is nsivariant fully supported using python?
...pass a python string/int/etc to the method requiring an nsivariant.
... a python object is convered when implmenting an interface taking an nsivariant.