/*

* Copyright (c) 2008 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: video collection view plugin's ui utils class

* 

*/

#ifndef __VIDEOCOLLECTIONVIEWUTILS_H__

#define __VIDEOCOLLECTIONVIEWUTILS_H__

#include <qobject.h>

class VideoCollectionViewUtils : public QObject

{

    Q_OBJECT

public:

    /**

     * Returns singleton instance for this class.

     * 

     * WARNING! Not safe to call this from destructor of another function scope static object!

     * 

     * @return The singleton instance.

     */

    static VideoCollectionViewUtils& instance();

    /**

     * Saves the sorting role and order to cenrep.

     * 

     * @param role The sorting role.

     * @param order The sorting order (e.g. ascending or descending).

     * @return Zero if operation succeeded, less than zero in error cases.

     */

    int saveSortingValues(int role, Qt::SortOrder order);

    /**

     * Loads the sorting role and order from cenrep.

     * 

     * @param role On return contains the sorting role.

     * @param order On return contains the sorting order

     * @return Zero if operation succeeded, less than zero in error cases.

     */

    int loadSortingValues(int& role, Qt::SortOrder& order);

    /**

     * Get service icon resource strings from cenrep.

     * 

     * @param icon On return contains the resource string for icon image.

     * @param iconPressed On return contains the resource string for pressed icon image.

     * @return Zero if operation succeeded, less than zero in error cases. 

     */

    int getServiceIconStrings(QString& icon, QString& iconPressed);

    /**

     * Get service URI string.

     * 

     * @return Service URI string. Invalid string in error cases.

     */

    QString getServiceUriString();

public slots:

    /**

     * Shows status msgs

     *

     * @param statusCode status code

     * @param additional additional data gotten from the status 

     */

    void showStatusMsgSlot(int statusCode, QVariant &additional);

private:

    /**

     * disables copy-constructor and assingment operator

     */

    Q_DISABLE_COPY(VideoCollectionViewUtils)

    /**

     * constructor

     */

    VideoCollectionViewUtils();

    /**

     * destructor

     */

    virtual ~VideoCollectionViewUtils();

};

#endif //__VIDEOCOLLECTIONUIUTILS_H__