/*

* Copyright (c) 2006 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:  A utility class for converting arrays to descriptors and vise versa

*

*/

#ifndef DESARRAYCONVERTER_H

#define DESARRAYCONVERTER_H

#include <nssvasmrrd.h> // NssRRDText

/**

* A utility class for converting arrays to descriptors and vise versa

*/

class CDesArrayConverter : public CBase

	{

	public:

		/**

        * Converts the stream data into the array of fixed size descriptors

        * @param aSource 8-bit descriptor to convert

        */

		static CArrayFixFlat<NssRRDText>* DesC8ToArrayLC( const TDesC8& aSource );

    	/**

        * Constructs DesC8 descriptor from the given array slice. Almost a 

        * counterpart of the DesC8ToArrayLC

        * @param aArray Array to convert

        * @param aStartIndex First element to convert. Zero-based

        * @param aCount number of elements to convert. 

        * @leave KErrArgument if aStartIndex or aCount are out of the array bounds

        */

    	static TDesC8* ArrayToDesC8LC( const CArrayFixFlat<NssRRDText>& aArray, 

    											TInt aStartIndex, TInt aCount );

	};

#endif // DESARRAYCONVERTER_H