/**

 * Copyright (c) 2010 Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd.

 * All rights reserved.

 * This component and the accompanying materials are made available

 * under the terms of the "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:

 * Chandradeep Gandhi, Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd - Initial contribution

 *

 * Contributors:

 * Manasij Roy, Nalina Hariharan

 * 

 * Description:

 * The SmfClient class provides a set of APIs to get list of service provider

 * who implement the given interface. Calling GetServices of the instance of this

 * class is mandatory before using any other interface.

 *

 */

#ifndef SMFCLIENT_H

#define SMFCLIENT_H

#include <QObject>

#include "smfclientglobal.h"

#ifdef WRITE_LOG 

#include <QFile>

#include <QTextStream>

#endif

//Forward declarations

class SmfProvider;

class SmfClientPrivate;

/**

 * @ingroup smf_client_group 

 * Interface for a base service provider. Other service provider classes contains 

 * implementation of this base class so that each has access to service provider 

 * information.

 * All of the functionality described here should be implemented by a service

 * specific plug-in object.

 */

class  SMFCLIENT_EXPORT SmfClient

{

public:

	/**

	 * Constructs SmfClient

	 */

	SmfClient();

	~SmfClient();

  /**

   * @param name of the service 

   * @return service provider list

   * 

   * More overloaded APIs will be provided later

   */

  QList<SmfProvider>* GetServices(const QString& serviceName); 

  //QList<SmfProvider>* GetServices(const QString& serviceName, const QString& providerName);

  //QList<SmfProvider>* GetServices(const QString& serviceName, const SmfProvider& provider);

	/**

	* Debugging purpose only

	*/

	void writeLog(QString log)const;

private:

  /**

   * Private impl wrapper.

   */

  SmfClientPrivate* m_private;

  /**

   * List of SmfProvider to be returned to the requested code

   */

  QList<SmfProvider>* m_providerList;

};

#endif // SMFCLIENT_H