Symbian3/PDK/Source/GUID-83BE15D8-511F-592D-A93B-C71BD6FB1B08.dita
author Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:02:22 +0000
changeset 3 46218c8b8afa
parent 1 25a17d01db0c
child 5 f345bda72bc4
permissions -rw-r--r--
week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Ignore whitespace changes - Everywhere: Within whitespace: At end of lines:
3
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     2
<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     3
<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     4
"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     5
and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     6
<!-- Initial Contributors:
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     7
    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     8
Contributors: 
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
     9
-->
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
    10
<!DOCTYPE concept
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
    11
  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
    12
<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-83BE15D8-511F-592D-A93B-C71BD6FB1B08"><title>What are tables</title><shortdesc>This topic describes the structure of a table. A table is an item that can be stored in the Comms Database. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>A table is a set of records. All records in a table are the same type. A table is also a container and an element. </p> <p>There are two types of table: </p> <ul><li id="GUID-C7ECF6E7-7011-5C3C-892C-CD8A11258309"><p>a table that has records defined at system compile time - these records have named fields and are defined by Symbian OS. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-D7BCD0AA-ECCC-500C-991A-1484F4970A2A"><p>a table that consists of records defined at run time - these records are user defined records - they are not known to Symbian OS when Symbian OS is built. </p> </li> </ul> <section><title>Tables that have records defined at system compile
46218c8b8afa week 10 bug fix submission (SF PDK version): Bug 1892, Bug 1897, Bug 1319. Also 3 or 4 documents were found to contain code blocks with SFL, which has been fixed. Partial fix for broken links, links to Forum Nokia, and the 'Symbian platform' terminology issues.
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents: 1
diff changeset
    13
          time</title> <p>A table that has records defined at system compile time is represented by the templated class <xref href="GUID-1CDD0B97-8B00-3373-9908-512C9BC1CF51.dita"><apiname>CMDBRecordSet</apiname></xref> <codeph>&lt;T&gt;</codeph>. The template parameter defines the record type. The template parameter is a Symbian OS defined record. </p> <p>You create a table object on the heap. You use the <codeph>new
1
25a17d01db0c Addition of the PDK content and example code for Documentation_content according to Feature bug 1607 and bug 1608
Dominic Pinkman <Dominic.Pinkman@Nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
    14
          (Eleave)</codeph> construction to create this object. </p> <fig id="GUID-6B7087D6-BA28-578D-8BF8-83FFC9486FB0"><image href="GUID-DB571D42-03F4-50F9-974D-B905707FC5F4_d0e91479_href.png" placement="inline"/></fig> <p>The CommsDat API implements the table as an array of records and uses <xref href="GUID-1CDD0B97-8B00-3373-9908-512C9BC1CF51.dita"><apiname>RPointerArray</apiname></xref> <codeph>&lt;T&gt;</codeph> as the array. The CommsDat API implements <codeph>RPointerArray&lt;T&gt;</codeph> in the base class <xref href="GUID-1CDD0B97-8B00-3373-9908-512C9BC1CF51.dita"><apiname>CMDBRecordSetBase</apiname></xref>, because this behaviour is common to all tables. Tools and applications can access the array and can use the sort behaviour provided by <codeph>RPointerArray&lt;T&gt;</codeph> to sort records. </p> </section> <section><title>Tables that have user defined records</title> <p>A table that has user defined records is represented by the <xref href="GUID-1CDD0B97-8B00-3373-9908-512C9BC1CF51.dita"><apiname>CMDBGenericRecord</apiname></xref>. The class has the behaviour that allows it to represent a record and a set of records. Internally, the class has an array that can contain the records. </p> <p>You use the <xref href="GUID-1CDD0B97-8B00-3373-9908-512C9BC1CF51.dita"><apiname>CommsDat::CCDRecordBase::RecordFactoryL()</apiname></xref> factory function to create a <xref href="GUID-1CDD0B97-8B00-3373-9908-512C9BC1CF51.dita"><apiname>CMDBGenericRecord</apiname></xref> object. </p> </section> </conbody></concept>