/*

* Copyright (c) 2006 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* 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:  MBSElement.h

*

*/

#ifndef __MBSELEMENT_H

#define __MBSELEMENT_H

#include <e32std.h>

enum TBSElementType

	{

	EBSInt,

	EBSText,

	EBSList,

	EBSBuffer,

	EBSBitmap,

	EBSFile

	};

/**

 * Class encapsulating the structure type branding items

 *

 * @since

 */

class RWriteStream;

class CBSBitmap;

NONSHARABLE_CLASS( MBSElement )

    {

    public:

    	/*

    	* Element type

    	* @return the element type

    	*/

		virtual TBSElementType ElementType() = 0;

    	/*

    	* Element id

    	* @return the element id

    	*/

		virtual const TDesC8& ElementId() = 0;

    	/*

    	* Integer data

    	* Panics if trying to get wrong type data.

    	* @return the integer data of the item

    	*/

		virtual TInt IntDataL() = 0;

    	/*

    	* Text data

    	* Panics if trying to get wrong type data.

    	* @return the text data of the item

    	*/

		virtual const TDesC& TextDataL() = 0;

    	/*

    	* 8-bit buffer data

    	* Panics if trying to get wrong type data.

    	* @return the text data of the item

    	*/

		virtual const TDesC8& BufferDataL() = 0;

    	/*

    	* Bitmap data

    	* Panics if trying to get wrong type data.

    	* @return the text data of the item

    	*/

        virtual const CBSBitmap& BitmapDataL() = 0;

    	/*

    	* Structure data

    	* Panics if trying to get wrong type data.

    	* @return the list data

    	*/

    	virtual TArray<MBSElement*> GetStructureL() = 0;

		/*

		* Finds the first entry from the list of a list type element with

		* the given element id. Note that if there are several subelements

		* with the same elementId then TBrandingElementIterator should be

		* used to iterate through them.

		* @param aElementId elementId of the subelement to be found.

		* @return the subelement

		*/

		virtual const MBSElement& FindSubEntryL( const TDesC& aElementId ) = 0;

        /*

        * Writes the internal state to stream.

        * @param aWriteStream output stream;

        */

        virtual void ExternalizeL( RWriteStream& aWriteStream ) = 0;

        /*

        * Deletes the element.

        */

		virtual void Close() = 0;

		/*

		* Destructor

		*/

	    virtual ~MBSElement() {};

    };

#endif //__MBSELEMENT_H