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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2004 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:  This interface defines a generic data type
+*
+*/
+
+
+
+#ifndef I_ALFCONTAINER_H
+#define I_ALFCONTAINER_H
+
+
+//  INCLUDES
+#include <alf/ialfvarianttype.h>
+
+namespace Alf
+    {
+
+// FORWARD DECLARATIONS
+class IAlfSortFunction;
+
+/**
+ * An interface for Container data type.
+ * @lib hitchcockwidgetmodel.lib
+ * @since S60 ?S60_version
+ * @status Draft
+ */
+class IAlfContainer : public IAlfVariantType
+    {
+public:
+
+    /**
+     * Adds a variantData item into the container
+     * @param aData variant data to be added into the container
+     * @return void.
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual void addItem(IAlfVariantType* aData)=0;
+
+    /**
+     * Adds a variantData item into the container
+     * @param aIndex index where the data is added
+     * @param aData variant data to be added into the container
+     * @return void.
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual void addItem(uint aIndex, IAlfVariantType* aData)=0;
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the Number of items in  the container
+     *
+     * @return number of items in the container
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual int count() = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the Item at a given index in  the container
+     * @param aIndex - index at which the element is required
+     * @return item as a MlfVariantType
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual IAlfVariantType* item(uint aIndex) = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Clones the  entire container
+     *
+     * @return the cloned container
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual IAlfContainer* clone() = 0;
+
+
+    /**
+     * Removes  an item from  given index in  the container
+     * @param aIndex - index at which the element is to be removed
+     * @return item as a MlfVariantType
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual void removeItem(uint aIndex) = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Clear the Container
+     *
+     * @return void
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual void clear() = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Replace  an item from  given index in  the container
+     * @param aIndex - index at which the element is to be replaced
+     * @param aNewData - new Data to be replaced
+     * @return void
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual void replaceItem(uint aIndex, IAlfVariantType* aNewData ) = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * sorts the container using user defined sort function.
+     *
+     * @param aSortFunction - sort function.
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual void sort( const IAlfSortFunction& aSortFunction ) = 0;
+
+    /**
+     * Destructor
+     *
+     * @since S60 ?S60_version
+     */
+    virtual ~IAlfContainer(){}
+    };
+
+
+    } // namespace Alf
+
+#endif // I_ALFCONTAINER_H
+
+// End of File