/*

* Copyright (c) 2002-2004 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:  Base interface for component data APIs

*

*/

#ifndef __MXNCOMPONENTINTERFACE_H__

#define __MXNCOMPONENTINTERFACE_H__

//  INCLUDES

#include    <e32base.h>

#include	"xnnodeappif.h"

// CLASS DECLARATION

/**

*  Base interface for component data APIs

*  @lib xnlayoutengine.lib

*  @since Series 60 3.1

*/

namespace XnComponentInterface

    {

    _LIT8(KType, "");

    class MXnComponentInterface

		    {

        public:

        static inline const TDesC8& Type()

            {

            return KType;

            }

   			};

    template<class T> TBool MakeInterfaceL(T*& aTargetInterface, CXnNodeAppIf& aNode)

        {

        aTargetInterface = static_cast<T*>(aNode.MakeInterfaceL(T::Type()));

        return aTargetInterface ? ETrue : EFalse;

        }

      }

#endif //__MXNCOMPONENTINTERFACE_H__