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#ifndef QABSTRACTCONTACTFILTER_H
#define QABSTRACTCONTACTFILTER_H

#include <QList>
#include "qtcontactsglobal.h"
#include "qcontactmanager.h"
#include "qcontactsortorder.h"
#include "qcontactfilter.h"

QTM_USE_NAMESPACE
class CntAbstractContactFilter
{
public:
    enum FilterSupport {
        /* The filter is not supported */
        NotSupported = 0,
        /* The filter is illegal. Filtering is not allowed and the operation
         * should fail immediately with an error.
         */
        IllegalFilter,
        /* The filter is supported natively */
        Supported,
        /* The filter is not fully natively supported, but for performance
         * reasons the contact filter implementation pretends supporting the
         * filter when it actually maps the filter to another, less strict
         * filter.
         * 
         * For example if the caller uses match flag QContactFilter::MatchExactly,
         * the filter actually gives the result as QContactFilter::MatchContains
         * (because of the limitations in the underlying database).
         * 
         * The result then needs to be filtered by the caller (for example by
         * using QContactManagerEngine::testFilter).
         */
        SupportedPreFilterOnly
    };
public:
    virtual QList<QContactLocalId> contacts(
            const QContactFilter &filter,
            const QList<QContactSortOrder> &sortOrders,
            bool &filterSupported,
            QContactManager::Error* error) = 0;
    virtual bool filterSupported(const QContactFilter& filter) = 0;
};

#endif /* QABSTRACTCONTACTFILTER_H */
