Symbian3/SDK/Source/GUID-3101392C-A9FF-5F56-8872-5A03D053565E.dita
author Dominic Pinkman <dominic.pinkman@nokia.com>
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:49 +0100
changeset 13 48780e181b38
parent 0 89d6a7a84779
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Week 28 contribution of SDK documentation content. See release notes for details. Fixes bugs Bug 1897 and Bug 1522.

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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-3101392C-A9FF-5F56-8872-5A03D053565E"><title> Using a Management Plane session to query all Access Points: Tutorial</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>The <xref href="GUID-55FE59B7-4FA9-3B1A-BD4C-9B7611FE75C2.dita"><apiname>RConnectionServ</apiname></xref> API has to be accessed through the <xref href="GUID-61E0CD76-A2E3-5066-84A8-146EECA8ADCD.dita">Sockets Server</xref> client API, so you need to ensure that <filepath>esock.lib</filepath> is included in the MMP file. </p> <section><title>Querying the status of an Access Point</title> <p>The <xref href="GUID-55FE59B7-4FA9-3B1A-BD4C-9B7611FE75C2.dita#GUID-55FE59B7-4FA9-3B1A-BD4C-9B7611FE75C2/GUID-E80C3173-3777-317A-8007-E9C331FAD9AE"><apiname>RConnectionServ::AccessPointStatusQuery()</apiname></xref> function retrieves information about the properties of one or more Access Points from the attached Tier specified earlier using the previous <codeph>Connect()</codeph> function. </p> <p> <xref href="GUID-55FE59B7-4FA9-3B1A-BD4C-9B7611FE75C2.dita#GUID-55FE59B7-4FA9-3B1A-BD4C-9B7611FE75C2/GUID-A2ED3E49-53F0-3BFD-8E77-DE543BAADA93"><apiname>RConnectionServ::AccessPointStatusQuery(const
          CConnectionServParameterBundle&amp; aQuery, CConnectionServParameterBundle&amp;
          aResult, TRequestStatus&amp; aStatus)</apiname></xref>  </p> <p>The parameter <codeph>aQuery</codeph> is an ‘In’ parameter. It is created and deleted by the caller, <xref href="GUID-A0741C04-7E9D-3E20-96C0-22CEEFCE3238.dita"><apiname>CConnectionServParameterBundle</apiname></xref>, of this function. The parameter will be deleted after completing the Access Point status query. The parameter contains structured data types in <xref href="GUID-9E2F2DFF-2CBE-38E2-BB8D-423C2228C201.dita"><apiname>CConnectionServParameterSetContainers</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-F4D933B7-A0B4-3D58-BD1E-ECAF4D9953D1.dita"><apiname>XParameterSet</apiname></xref> -derived types. These data types specify the group of Access Points to be returned and the information about the Access Points to be queried. </p> <p>The parameter <codeph>aResult</codeph> is an ‘Out’ parameter. It is created and deleted by the caller, <xref href="GUID-A0741C04-7E9D-3E20-96C0-22CEEFCE3238.dita"><apiname>CConnectionServParameterBundle</apiname></xref>, of this function. The parameter will be deleted after completing the Access Point status query. </p> <p>The time taken to complete the query depends on the implementation of the <xref href="GUID-4841AEDF-D22C-57D0-872D-7BD8B6A29CF5.dita">Tiers Manager</xref> stack plug-in that serves the request. It is an asynchronous request. There can only be one outstanding query at a time. Further queries before completion of an outstanding query result in <codeph>KErrInUse</codeph>. </p> </section> <section><title>Cancelling an Access Point status query</title> <p> <xref href="GUID-55FE59B7-4FA9-3B1A-BD4C-9B7611FE75C2.dita#GUID-55FE59B7-4FA9-3B1A-BD4C-9B7611FE75C2/GUID-BDF7E376-AC0E-3723-A2FC-1C45D1ED56A4"><apiname>RConnectionServ::CancelAccessPointStatusQuery()</apiname></xref>  </p> <p>This function cancels the current Access Point status query. </p> </section> <section><title>Example Code</title> <p>The following example shows how to find information about all the Access Points that are known to the device. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-79A6D545-BFB4-51E3-9C8A-B0608F36A71C" xml:space="preserve">
// Start the session as mentioned in starting a session
 
// Create bundle (This bundle is owned by this class so the destructor of this class    
// must delete the bundle)
iQueryBundle = CConnectionServParameterBundle::NewL();


// Set up the filter for our query
TAccessPointStatusFilter availFilter;

// a) We want to match against this attribute
availFilter.Configured(EAccessPointFlagMatchTrue);

// b) Don’t even try to find these things out as we’re not interested at present
availFilter.Restricted(EAccessPointFlagIgnore);
availFilter.Available(EAccessPointFlagIgnore);
availFilter.Started(EAccessPointFlagIgnore);

// Call helper function to create query structure
iQueryBundle-&gt;AddMatchConditionL(availFilter);

// Call helper function to specify what we want to get for each Access Point
iQueryBundle-&gt;AddParameterSetToReturnL(XAccessPointGenericParameterSet::TypeId());

// Create container for result
iStatusBundle = CConnectionServParameterBundle::NewL();

// Make call- the iStatus is a TRequestStatus owned by your active object
iConnServ.AccessPointStatusQuery(*iQueryBundle, *iStatusBundle, iStatus);
</codeblock> <p>At this point, a return to the Active Scheduler is necessary because the query uses active objects. So the passed in <xref href="GUID-E0B34F3E-D4C4-3232-B8B1-7DB35B454646.dita"><apiname>TRequestStatus</apiname></xref> functions are not completed until those active objects have run. </p> <p>The <codeph>RunL()</codeph> of the active object runs on completion of the <codeph>AccessPointStatusQuery()</codeph> call, as shown below: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-EE660CAC-E120-57CE-9AD4-5B60C61FBB36" xml:space="preserve">
/*virtual*/
void CMyActiveObjectClass::RunL()
  {
  // Some function to handle errors
  MyErrorHandler(iStatus.Int());

  // Process results
  CConnectionServParameterSetContainer* parSetCtr;
  TInt i=0;
  while(parSetCtr = iStatusBundle-&gt;GetParamSetContainer(i++))
    {
XAccessPointGenericParameterSet* genParamSet =
       XAccessPointGenericParameterSet::FindInParamSetContainer(parSetCtr);

    if(!genParamSet) continue;
    TUint apId = genParamSet-&gt;AccessPointInfo().AccessPoint();
    TAccessPointStatus apStatus = genParamSet-&gt;AccessPointStatus();

    // Your function to process result
    ProcessResult(apId,apStatus);
  }
}

// Later, in the destructor of this class, the bundles must be deleted
delete iQueryBundle;
delete iStatusBundle;</codeblock> </section> </conbody></concept>