/*

* Copyright (c) 2008-2009 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:    UString converter implementation class that converts symbian data 

*                types to UString types

*

*/

#ifndef GLXUSTRINGCONVERTER_H

#define GLXUSTRINGCONVERTER_H                           

#include "glxmedia.h"

namespace osncore

    {

    //template <class T> class AlfPtrVector;  

    class UString;

    }

using namespace osncore;

// ================================================

// DO NOT USE THIS CLASS IF NOT GLXDATAPROVIDER.DLL

// ================================================

//

/**

 * CGlxUStringConverter class that converts the symbian types to UString type

 */

NONSHARABLE_CLASS(CGlxUStringConverter): public CBase

{

public:

    /**

     * Constructor

     * @param aMedia The media object

     */

    CGlxUStringConverter();

    /**

     * Two phase construction

     * @param aMedia The media object

     */ 

    IMPORT_C static CGlxUStringConverter* NewL();

    /**

     * Two phase construction

     * @param aMedia The media object

     */

    static CGlxUStringConverter* NewLC();

    /**

     * The function that converts symbian types to UString

     * @param aMedia The media object

     * @param aAttribute The attribute used to extract the data to be converted

     * @param aFormatString Holds the information regarding the format in which data

     * should be.

     */

	IMPORT_C void AsStringL(const TGlxMedia& aMedia, const TMPXAttribute& aAttribute, TInt aFormatString, HBufC*& aString ) const;

private:

    ~CGlxUStringConverter();

	/**

     * Returns the item size in the required format

     */

	void GetFormattedItemSizeL(const CGlxMedia& media, HBufC*& aString) const;

	/**

     * Returns the item location in the required format

     * @param aCoordinate holds the coordinate information

     */

	void GetFormatLocationL( const TCoordinate& aCoordinate, HBufC*& aString )const;

	/**

     * Returns the item duration in the required format

     * @param aDuration holds the duration information

     */

	void GetFormattedDurationL( const TReal& aDuration, HBufC*& aString ) const;

	/**

     * Returns the item resolution in the required format

     * @param aSize holds the resolution size information

     */

	void GetFormatResolutionL( const TSize& aSize, HBufC*& aString ) const;

private:

};

#endif //GLXUSTRINGCONVERTER_H