1 This directory is for components that have the Content Module as the
2 uppermost layer they depend on. They may depend only on the Content
3 API (content/public) and on lower layers (e.g. base/, net/, ipc/
6 Components that have bits of code that need to live in different
7 processes (e.g. some code in the browser process, some in the renderer
8 process, etc.) should separate the code into different subdirectories.
9 Hence for a component named 'foo' you might end up with a structure
12 components/foo - DEPS, OWNERS, foo.gypi
13 components/foo/browser - code that needs the browser process
14 components/foo/common - for e.g. IPC constants and such
15 components/foo/renderer - code that needs renderer process
17 These subdirectories should have DEPS files with the relevant
18 restrictions in place, i.e. only components/*/browser should
19 be allowed to #include from content/public/browser.
21 Note that there may also be an 'android' subdir, with a Java source
22 code structure underneath it where the package name is
23 org.chromium.components.foo, and with subdirs after 'foo'
24 to illustrate process, e.g. 'browser' or 'renderer':
26 components/foo/android/OWNERS, DEPS
27 components/foo/android/java/src/org/chromium/components/foo/browser/
28 components/foo/android/javatests/src/org/chromium/components/foo/browser/
30 Code in a component should be placed in a namespace corresponding to
31 the name of the component; e.g. for a component living in
32 //components/foo, code in that component should be in the foo::
33 namespace. Note that it used to be the rule that all code under
34 //components should be in the components:: namespace; this is being