/*

* 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:  Class to hold description about one event definition

*

*/

#ifndef __MDSEVENTDEF_H__

#define __MDSEVENTDEF_H__

#include "mdsitemdef.h"

/**

 *  Metadata eventdef class

 *

 *  This class is responsible for holding information one event

 *

 */

class CMdsEventDef : public CMdsItemDef

    {

    friend class CMdsNamespaceDef;

public:

	/**

	 * Create new event object

	 * @param aId id of event

	 * @param aName name of event

	 * @param aPriority priority of event

	 * @return pointer to new created event

	 */

    static CMdsEventDef* NewL( const TDesC& aName, const TInt32 aPriority );

	/**

	 * Create new event object

	 * @param aId id of event

	 * @param aName name of event

	 * @param aPriority priority of event

	 * @return pointer to new created event

	 */

    static CMdsEventDef* NewLC( const TDesC& aName, const TInt32 aPriority );

    /**

     * Stores event definition to DB

     * @param aNamespaceDefId namespace definition

     * @param aConnection connection to database

     */

 	void StoreToDBL( const TInt aNamespaceDefId );

 	/**

 	 * Destructor

 	 */

    virtual ~CMdsEventDef();

	TBool operator==( const CMdsEventDef& aEventDef ) const;

	inline TBool operator!=( const CMdsEventDef& aEventDef ) const;

	/**

	 * Get object priority

	 * @return object priority

	 */

	inline TInt32 GetPriority() const;

    /**

     * Get required size of serialized buffer when this is serialized.

     *

     * @return required size of serialized buffer

     */

    TUint32 RequiredBufferSize();

    /**

     * Serialize own data to serialized buffer (correct position must be set 

     * before calling) and return new position of serialized buffer.

	 *

     * @param aBuffer  serialized buffer.

     */

    TMdCOffset SerializeL(CMdCSerializationBuffer& aBuffer, TMdCOffset aFreeSpace);

private:

	/**

	 * Default constructor

	 */

    inline CMdsEventDef()

    	{}

	/**

	 * 2nd phase construction

	 * @param aName name of event

	 * @param aPriority priority of event

	 */

    void ConstructL( const TDesC& aName, TInt32 aPriority );

private: // data

	/**

	 * event priority

	 */

	TInt32 iPriority;

    };

#include "mdseventdef.inl"

#endif // __MDSEVENTDEF_H__