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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2002 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:  Defines a public interface class MAknsDataContext.
+*
+*/
+
+
+#ifndef AKNSDATACONTEXT_H
+#define AKNSDATACONTEXT_H
+
+//  INCLUDES
+#include <AknsConstants.h>
+#include <AknsItemID.h>
+#include <coemop.h>
+
+// CLASS DECLARATION
+
+/**
+* Interface that provides context sensitive control over data allocation.
+* MAknsDataContext can be used to indicate need for specific skin items
+* and thus to ensure that they are allocated before first use.
+*
+* This is a public class with exported functions.
+* The class is not usually intended for user derivation - concrete classes
+* implementing the interface are provided by the library.
+* See @c AknsUtils::CreateDataContextForContainerL() for further 
+* details.
+*
+* @lib AknSkins.lib
+*
+* @since 2.0
+*/
+class MAknsDataContext 
+    {
+    public: // Type UID
+        /**         
+        * Type ID declaration.
+        * Type ID is used to make it possible to retrieve data context
+        * through @c MObjectProvider::MopSupplyObject interface.
+        */
+        DECLARE_TYPE_ID(0x10005a28)
+
+    public:  // Constructors and destructor    
+
+        /**
+        * Destructor.
+        * Destructor is only provided to enable deletion using base class
+        * pointer. Caller should never delete context retrieved using
+        * @c MObjectProvider interface.
+        */
+        inline virtual ~MAknsDataContext() {}
+        
+    public: // New functions
+
+        /**
+        * Reserves and allocates specified item.
+        * Instructs the data context that the specified item will be used
+        * by caller and should be allocated and cached by skin instance.
+        * Any control using cached skin items should reserve them, preferably
+        * in @c ConstructL(), by calling this method.
+        * Note that reservation does not guarantee that the item will be
+        * available in cache - it's only a tentative request for allocation.
+        *
+        * @since 2.0
+        *
+        * @param aID Item ID of the item to be reserved.
+        *
+        * @par Exceptions:
+        *   If item data allocation fails, function leaves with error code.
+        */
+        virtual void ReserveItemL( const TAknsItemID& aID ) =0;
+
+		/**
+        * Indicates that specified item will no longer be used.
+        * Instructs the data context that the specified item will not
+        * be used by caller anymore. Exact behavior (e.g. whether cached
+        * instance is deallocated) depends on the cache policy of data
+        * context and skin instance. Controls should not usually call this
+        * method, but instead allow data context (in most cases implemented
+        * by a container) go out of scope. 
+        *
+        * @since 2.0
+        * 
+        * @param aID Item ID of the item to be released.
+        */
+        virtual void ReleaseItem( const TAknsItemID& aID ) =0;
+
+    protected: // Reserved virtual functions
+
+        /**
+        * Reserved for future use.
+        *
+        * @since 2.0
+        */
+        virtual TInt Reserved1();
+
+        /**
+        * Reserved for future use.
+        *
+        * @since 2.0
+        */
+        virtual TInt Reserved2();
+
+    public: // New functions
+
+        /**
+        * Returns type UID pointer that can be used in MopSupplyObject.
+        *
+        * @since 2.0
+        *
+        * @param aId Type UID, should be the same that was given as aId
+        *   parameter of MopSupplyObject.
+        *
+        * @param aContext Pointer to an MAknsDataContext instance.
+        *
+        * @return Type UID pointer containing aContext, or @c NULL type UID
+        *   pointer if given type UID does not match MAknsDataContext or
+        *   aContext is @c NULL.
+        */
+        IMPORT_C static TTypeUid::Ptr SupplyMopObject( TTypeUid aId, 
+            MAknsDataContext* aContext );
+
+    };
+
+#endif // AKNSDATACONTEXT_H
+            
+// End of File