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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2005 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 that validates a search criteria and creates a copy.
+*
+*/
+
+
+#ifndef POSLMCRITERIAHELPER_H
+#define POSLMCRITERIAHELPER_H
+
+//  INCLUDES
+
+// FORWARD DECLARATION
+class CPosLmSearchCriteria;
+class CPosLmAreaCriteria;
+class CPosLmTextCriteria;
+class CPosLmCompositeCriteria;
+class CPosLmCategoryCriteria;
+class CPosLmNearestCriteria;
+class CPosLmCatNameCriteria;
+
+// CLASS DECLARATION
+
+/**
+* Helper class that validates a search criteria and creates a copy.
+*/
+class PosLmCriteriaHelper
+    {
+    public: // New functions
+
+        /*
+        * Validates the specified criteria according to validation rules of the
+        * criteria classes and the validation rules of CPosLmMultiDbSearch.
+        *
+        * @param aCriteria The search criteria.
+        * @param aIsLm If ETrue, the criteria will be validated as a landmark
+        *   criteria and if EFalse, the criteria will be validated as a
+        *   category criteria.
+        * @param aUseDistanceSorting Will be set to ETrue if the criteria
+        *   should result in distance sorting, EFalse otherwise.
+        * @param aIsTopCriteria For internal use, external calls should always
+        *   use the default value.
+        * @return A copy of the criteria. Caller takes ownership of the
+        *   returned object.
+        */
+        static CPosLmSearchCriteria* ValidateAndCopyL(
+        /* IN  */       const CPosLmSearchCriteria& aCriteria,
+        /* IN  */       TBool aIsLm,
+        /* OUT */       TBool& aUseDistanceSorting,
+        /* IN  */       TBool aIsTopCriteria = ETrue
+        );
+
+    private:
+
+        static CPosLmSearchCriteria* ValidateAndCopyLC(
+        /* IN  */       const CPosLmCompositeCriteria& aCriteria,
+        /* IN  */       TBool aIsLm,
+        /* OUT */       TBool& aUseDistanceSorting
+        );
+
+        static CPosLmSearchCriteria* ValidateAndCopyLC(
+        /* IN  */       const CPosLmAreaCriteria& aCriteria
+        );
+
+        static CPosLmSearchCriteria* ValidateAndCopyLC(
+        /* IN  */       const CPosLmTextCriteria& aCriteria
+        );
+
+        static CPosLmSearchCriteria* ValidateAndCopyLC(
+        /* IN  */       const CPosLmCategoryCriteria& aCriteria
+        );
+
+        static CPosLmSearchCriteria* ValidateAndCopyLC(
+        /* IN  */       const CPosLmNearestCriteria& aCriteria
+        );
+
+        static CPosLmSearchCriteria* ValidateAndCopyLC(
+        /* IN  */       const CPosLmCatNameCriteria& aCriteria
+        );
+
+    };
+
+#endif      // POSLMCRITERIAHELPER_H
+
+// End of File