core/java/android/app/IBackupAgent.aidl

/*
 * Copyright 2009, The Android Open Source Project
 *
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package android.app;

import android.os.ParcelFileDescriptor;
 
/**
 * Interface presented by applications being asked to participate in the
 * backup & restore mechanism.  End user code does not typically implement
 * this interface; they subclass BackupAgent instead.
 *
 * {@hide}
 */ 
interface IBackupAgent {
    /**
     * Request that the app perform an incremental backup.
     *
     * @param oldState Read-only file containing the description blob of the
     *        app's data state as of the last backup operation's completion.
     *        This file is empty or invalid when a full backup is being
     *        requested.
     *
     * @param data Read-write file, empty when onBackup() is called, that
     *        is the data destination for this backup pass's incrementals.
     *
     * @param newState Read-write file, empty when onBackup() is called,
     *        where the new state blob is to be recorded.
     */
    void doBackup(in ParcelFileDescriptor oldState,
            in ParcelFileDescriptor data,
            in ParcelFileDescriptor newState);

    /**
     * Restore an entire data snapshot to the application.
     *
     * @param data Read-only file containing the full data snapshot of the
     *        app's backup.  This is to be a <i>replacement</i> of the app's
     *        current data, not to be merged into it.
     *
     * @param newState Read-write file, empty when onRestore() is called,
     *        that is to be written with the state description that holds after
     *        the restore has been completed.
     */
    void doRestore(in ParcelFileDescriptor data, in ParcelFileDescriptor newState);
}