/*

 * Copyright (c) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

 * All rights reserved.

 * This component and the accompanying materials are made available

 * under the terms of the License "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: 

 *   EAP QT configuration validator interface

 *

 */

/*

 */

#ifndef EAPQTVALIDATOR_H

#define EAPQTVALIDATOR_H

#include <QVariant>

/*!

 * @addtogroup group_eap_config_api

 * @{

 */

class HbLineEdit;

/*!

 * Eap Qt Validator interface. This interface provides a method to configure

 * the editor to use required constraints, hints, editor classes and so one

 * depending on the EAP type and the configuration identifier.

 * See updateEditor() method for further details.

 * 

 * Another important method of this class is the validate() method. With

 * that method you can check that the content and format is valid for 

 * given configuration compination.

 * 

 * An instance of validator can be created with 

 * EapQtConfigInterface::validatorEap() method.

 */

class EAP_QT_CONFIG_INTERFACE_EXPORT EapQtValidator

{

public:

    /*!

     * Validation status.

     */

    enum Status {

        /// Ok

        StatusOk,

        /// Content is invalid

        StatusInvalid,

        /// The length is not valid

        StatusInvalidLength,

        /// Invalid characters detected

        StatusInvalidCharacters,

        /// Input is too short

        StatusTooShort, 

        /// Input is too long

        StatusTooLong,  

    };

public:

    EapQtValidator() {};

    virtual ~EapQtValidator() {};

    /*!

     * Processes validation to the given input \a value.

     *

     * @param value Value to be validated

     * 

     * @return Status code.

     * 

     * - EapQtConfig::Username: All values 

     * - EapQtConfig::Password: All values

     * - EapQtConfig::Realm: All values

     * - EapQtConfig::ServerName: All values

     * - EapQtConfig::PacStorePassword: All values  

     * - EapQtConfig::PacStorePasswordConfirmation: StatusOk and StatusInvalid

     */

    virtual Status validate(QVariant value) = 0;

    /*!

     * Sets required configurations to the lineedit such as:

     * - Constraints

     * - HbInputFilter

     * - HbValidator

     * - inputMethodsHints

     * - maximum length

     * - predictive input mode

     * - number/text mode

     * 

     * Configurations depends on the Expanded EAP type and the configuration id

     * which were used to instantiate the validator.

     * 

     * @param edit LineEdit to be updated.

     */

    virtual void updateEditor(HbLineEdit* edit) = 0;

private:

    Q_DISABLE_COPY(EapQtValidator)

};

/*! @} */

#endif