/**

 * 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 comment class represents a comment (on a picture or a music track etc)

 *

 */

#ifndef SMFCOMMENT_H_

#define SMFCOMMENT_H_

#include <QDateTime>

#include <qdatastream.h>

#include <QSharedData>

#include "smfclientglobal.h"

#include <QMetaType>

class SmfCommentPrivate;

/**

 * @ingroup smf_common_group

 * The comment class represents a comment (on a picture or a music track etc)

 */

class SMFCOMMON_EXPORT SmfComment

	{

public:

	/**

	 * Constructor with default argument

	 */

	SmfComment( );

	/**

	 * Copy Constructor

	 * @param aOther The reference object

	 */

	SmfComment( const SmfComment &aOther );

	/**

	 * Overloaded = operator

	 * @param aOther The reference object

	 * @return The current object reference

	 */

	SmfComment& operator=(const SmfComment &aOther);

	/**

	 * Destructor

	 */

	~SmfComment( );

	/**

	 * Method to get the comment text

	 * @return The comment text

	 */

	QString text( ) const;

	/**

	 * Method to get the comment time stamp

	 * @return The comment time stamp value

	 */

	QDateTime timeStamp( ) const;

	/**

	 * Method to get the id of the comment

	 * @return The ID value 

	 */

	QString id( ) const;

	/**

	 * Method to set the comment text

	 * @param aText The comment text to be set

	 */

	void setText( const QString &aText );

	/**

	 * Method to set the time stamp

	 * @param aDateTime The comment time stamp value to be set

	 */

	void setTimeStamp( const QDateTime &aDateTime );

	/**

	 * Method to set the id of the comment

	 * @param aId The ID value to be set

	 */

	void setId( const QString &aId );

private:

	QSharedDataPointer<SmfCommentPrivate> d;

	friend QDataStream &operator<<( QDataStream &aDataStream, 

			const SmfComment &aComment );

	friend QDataStream &operator>>( QDataStream &aDataStream, 

			SmfComment &aComment );

	};

/**

 * Method for Externalization. Writes the SmfComment object to 

 * the stream and returns a reference to the stream.

 * @param aDataStream Stream to be written

 * @param aComment The SmfComment object to be externalized

 * @return reference to the written stream

 */

SMFCOMMON_EXPORT QDataStream &operator<<( QDataStream &aDataStream, 

		const SmfComment &aComment );

/**

 * Method for Internalization. Reads a SmfComment object from 

 * the stream and returns a reference to the stream.

 * @param aDataStream Stream to be read

 * @param aComment The SmfComment object to be internalized

 * @return reference to the stream

 */

SMFCOMMON_EXPORT QDataStream &operator>>( QDataStream &aDataStream, 

		SmfComment &aComment);

// Make the class SmfComment known to QMetaType, so that as to register it.

Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(SmfComment)

Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(QList<SmfComment>)

#endif /* SMFCOMMENT_H_ */