/*

 * Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

 * All rights reserved.

 * This component and the accompanying materials are made available

 * under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available

 * at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

 *

 * Initial Contributors:

 * Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

 *

 * Contributors:

 *

 * Description:Utility class having static helper methods.

 *

 */

#ifndef MSGUTILS_H_

#define MSGUTILS_H_

//FORWARD DECLARATIONS.

class QDateTime;

class QString;

/**

 * Utility class having static utility functions.

 */

class MsgUtils

{

public:

    // DATA

    /**

     * Character support

     */

    enum MsgCharSupport

    {

        msgCharSupportFull = 0,

        msgCharSupportReduced

    };

private:

    //constructor and destructor made private to avoid instantiation of this class.

    /**

     * Constructor

     */

    MsgUtils(){};

    /**

     * Destructor

     */

    ~MsgUtils(){};

public:

    /**

     * Converts QDateTime to formatted string.

     * @param dateTime QDateTime object to be converted to formatted string.

     * @param format determines the format of the result string.

     * @return formatted string representation of dateTime specified by format.

     * if date is invalid empty string is returned.

     * if format string is invalid, format string itself is returned.

     */

    static QString dateTimeToString(const QDateTime& dateTime,

        const QString& format);

};

#endif /* MSGUTILS_H_ */

// EOF