/*

* 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:   CVideoCollectionUtils class definition*

*/

#ifndef __VIDEOCOLLECTIONUTILS_H__

#define __VIDEOCOLLECTIONUTILS_H__

// INCLUDES

#include <QObject>

#include <QString>

#include <mpxmedia.h>

class VideoCollectionUtils

{    

    /**

     * disable copy-constructor and assignment operator

     */

	Q_DISABLE_COPY(VideoCollectionUtils) 

public: 

    /**

     * Returns singleton instance for this class.

     * 

     * @return The singleton instance.

     */

    static VideoCollectionUtils& instance();

    /**

     * Gets QString value from provided media -object based on attribute provided

     * 

     * @param CMPXMedia* pointer to media object from where to get data

     * @param TMPXAttributeData& attribute to look for

     * @param QString& wanted value

     * 

     * @return bool true data value gotten ok

     */

    template<class T>

    bool mediaValue(const CMPXMedia *media, const TMPXAttributeData& attribute, QString& result)

    {

        bool status = false;

        if( media && media->IsSupported(attribute))

        {

            HBufC* valueText = NULL;        

            valueText = media->ValueText( attribute ).Alloc();

            if (valueText && valueText->Length() > 0)

            {

                // temp QString needed to make sure string is initialized correctly (Error  #424)

                QString text((QChar*)valueText->Des().Ptr(),valueText->Length());

                result = text;

                status = true;

            }

            delete valueText;

        }

        return status;

    }

    /**

     * Gets typed value from provided media -object based on attribute provided

     * 

     * @param CMPXMedia* pointer to media object from where to get data

     * @param TMPXAttributeData& attribute to look for

     * @param T& wanted value

     * 

     * @return bool true data value gotten ok

     */

    template<class T>

    bool mediaValue(const CMPXMedia *media, const TMPXAttributeData& attribute, T& result)

    {

        bool status = false;

        if(media && media->IsSupported(attribute))

        {

            T *pointer = 0;

            pointer = media->Value<T>(attribute);

            if(pointer)

            {

                result = *pointer;

                status = true;

            }

        }          

        return status;

    }

    /**

     * Gets typed pointer from provided media -object based on attribute provided

     * 

     * @param CMPXMedia* pointer to media object from where to get data

     * @param TMPXAttributeData& attribute to look for

     * 

     * @return T* pointer to wanted data (NULL if does not succeed)

     */

    template<class T>

    T* mediaValuePtr(const CMPXMedia *media, const TMPXAttributeData& attribute)

    {

        T *pointer = 0;

        if(media && media->IsSupported(attribute))

        {

            pointer = media->Value<T>(attribute);

        }          

        return pointer;

    }

    /**

     * Prepares length string from given value.

     * 

     * @param length Length value in seconds.

     * @return Length as string (for example "1min 45sec").

     */

    QString prepareLengthString(quint32 length);

    /**

     * Prepares size string from the given value.

     * 

     * @param size Size value in bytes

     * @return Size as string (for example "450 kB").

     */

    QString prepareSizeString(quint32 size);

public:

    static QString mPrepareLengthStringReturnValue;

    static QString mPrepareSizeStringReturnValue;

private: 

	/**

	 * Default constructor

     */

    VideoCollectionUtils();	

	/**

     * Destructor

     */

	~VideoCollectionUtils();	

};

#endif  // __VIDEOCOLLECTIONUTILS_H__

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