/*
* Copyright (c) 2007 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:  Factory plugin implementation that can construct container widgets.
*
*/


#ifndef ALFCONTAINERWIDGETFACTORYPLUGIN_H
#define ALFCONTAINERWIDGETFACTORYPLUGIN_H

// INCLUDES
#include <alf/ialffactoryplugin.h>

namespace Alf
{

/**
 * AlfContainerWidgetFactoryPlugin is a widget factory plugin implementation
 * that can be used to create container widgets.
 *
 * Can be used to create container widgets and associated products.
 */
class AlfContainerWidgetFactoryPlugin : public IAlfFactoryPlugin
    {
public:
    // Constructors and destructor

    /**
     * Default Symbian constructor to create the factory plugin.
     */
    static AlfContainerWidgetFactoryPlugin* newL();

    // From base class MAlfPluginFactory

    /**
     * Create container widget factory product.
     * @since Series 60 5.0
     * @param aProduct Product to create.
     * @param aInitData Initialization data for product
     * @return Instance or NULL
     */ 
    IAlfInterfaceBase* createProduct( const char* aProduct, void* aInitData );    
    
     /**
      * Count available products this factory can produce.
      *
      * @since S60 5.0
      * @return Product count
      */
     int productCount() const;

     /**
      * Fetch product info by index
      *
      * @param aIndex List index
      * @since S60 5.0
      * @return Descriptor describing product
      */
     const char* productInfo(int aIndex) const;
      
     // From base class IAlfInterfaceBase

     /**
      * Creates interface based on the given type.
      * 
      * @since Series 60 5.0
      * @param aType Interface type to create.
      * @return Requested interface.
      */ 
     IAlfInterfaceBase* makeInterface(const IfId& aType);
     
    };

} // Namespace Alf

#endif // ALFCONTAINERWIDGETFACTORYPLUGIN_H