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* Copyright (c) 2004-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of the License "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: 

*

*/

/**

 @file

 @publishedAll

 @released

*/

#ifndef __CAF_METADATAARRAY_H__

#define __CAF_METADATAARRAY_H__

#include <e32base.h>

#include <f32file.h>

class RWriteStream;

class RReadStream;

namespace ContentAccess

	{

	class CMetaData;

	/**

	Stores an array of CMetaData objects for use in a supplier import operation

	It provides search and routines (for both 8 bit and Unicode) to find the

	value corresponding to a particular field in the array.

  	Applications should use the unicode search function whenever possible because 

	it removes the risk of losing information during the unicode to 8 bit 

	conversion.

	*/

	class CMetaDataArray : public CBase

		{

	public:

		IMPORT_C static CMetaDataArray* NewL();

		IMPORT_C static CMetaDataArray* NewLC();

		/** Construct a CMetaDataArray from a stream

		@param aStream the stream containing the metadata array

		@return a new CMetaDataArray

		*/

		IMPORT_C static CMetaDataArray* NewL(RReadStream& aStream);

		/** Destructor */

		virtual ~CMetaDataArray();

		/** Adds a new meta data,

		@param aField The name used to index the value of interest

		@param aData		The data

		*/		

		IMPORT_C void AddL(const TDesC8& aField, const TDesC8& aData);

		/** Adds a new meta data,

		@param aField The name used to index the value of interest

		@param aData		The data

		*/		

		IMPORT_C void AddL(const TDesC& aField, const TDesC& aData);

		/** Retrieves the MetaData at the given index

		*

		* @param aIndex	The index of the meta-data

		* @return		

		*/

		IMPORT_C const CMetaData& operator [] (TInt aIndex) const;

		/** The number of metadata objects in the list

		*/

		IMPORT_C TInt Count() const;

		/** Find the unicode data for a given unicode field. 

		@param aField	The field to retrieve

		@param aMatchCase ETrue To perform case sensitive search, EFalse - To perform non case sensitive search

		@return The corresponding data or else a zero length string if the field was not found	

		*/

		IMPORT_C const TDesC& SearchL(const TDesC& aField, TBool aMatchCase = EFalse) const;

		/** Find the 8 bit data for a given 8 bit field. 

		@param aField8	The field to retrieve

		@param aMatchCase ETrue To perform case sensitive search, EFalse - To perform non case sensitive search

		@return The corresponding data or else a zero length string if the field was not found

		*/

		IMPORT_C const TDesC8& SearchL(const TDesC8& aField8, TBool aMatchCase = EFalse) const;

		/** Externalizes the CMetaDataArray object to a stream.

		* 

		* @param aStream	The stream to write the header information to.

		*/

		IMPORT_C void ExternalizeL(RWriteStream& aStream) const;

	private:

		CMetaDataArray();

		void InternalizeL(RReadStream& aStream);

	private:

		RPointerArray <CMetaData> iArray;  

		// Length of the longest data item in the array

		TInt iMaxFieldLength;

		};

	}

#endif