/*

* 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:  Helper class by which a plugin can communicate with the associated dataform.

*

*/

#ifndef CPITEMDATAHELPER_H

#define CPITEMDATAHELPER_H

#include <QObject>

#include <cpglobal.h>

class QObject;

class HbWidget;

class QModelIndex;

class HbDataForm;

class HbAbstractViewItem;

class HbDataFormModelItem;

class CpItemDataHelperPrivate;

class CP_EXPORT CpItemDataHelper : public QObject

{

	Q_OBJECT

public:

    explicit CpItemDataHelper(HbDataForm *form = 0);

    virtual ~CpItemDataHelper();

	void bindToForm(HbDataForm *form);

	void addItemPrototype(HbAbstractViewItem *prototype);

    void addConnection(HbDataFormModelItem *item,

        const char *signal,

        QObject *receiver,

        const char *method);

    void removeConnection(HbDataFormModelItem *item,

        const char *signal,

        QObject *receiver,

        const char *method);

    void connectToForm(const char *signal,

        QObject *receiver,

        const char *method);

    void disconnectFromForm(const char *signal,

        QObject *receiver,

        const char *method);

    HbWidget *widgetFromModelIndex(const QModelIndex &index);

    HbDataFormModelItem *modelItemFromModelIndex(const QModelIndex &index);

private:

    CpItemDataHelperPrivate *d;

};

#endif