/*

* Copyright (c) 2009 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:  Interface for object query

*

*/

#ifndef __MDEOBJECTQUERY_H__

#define __MDEOBJECTQUERY_H__

#include <mdequery.h>

/* Forward declarations. */

class CMdEObject;

class CMdEObjectDef;

class CMdEPropertyDef;

class CMdEObjectDef;

class CMdESession;

/**

 * A query that fetches a set of objects from the metadata engine database.

 */

NONSHARABLE_CLASS(CMdEObjectQuery) : public CMdEQuery

	{

public:

	/* Constructors and destructor. */

	/**

	 * Destructor.

	 */

	virtual ~CMdEObjectQuery();

	/* Methods. */

    /**

    * Adds new propertyfilter. Propertyfilters determines which properties

    * are included in result.

    * @param aPropertyDef property definition of property which is wanted to

      be part of result.

    */

    IMPORT_C void AddPropertyFilterL( const CMdEPropertyDef* aPropertyDef );

    /**

    Clears propertyfilters. After call to this function all properties are 

    returned unless call to <code>AddPropertyFilterL</code> is done.

    */

    IMPORT_C void ResetPropertyFilter();

    /**

	 * Returns one of the result objects.

	 *

	 * @return  The result object that was requested. The query retains 

     *          ownership of the returned object.

	 */

	IMPORT_C CMdEObject& Result(TInt aIndex) const;

    /**

	 * Returns query's object definition.

	 *

	 * @return  object definition.

	 */

	IMPORT_C CMdEObjectDef& ObjectDef() const;

	CMdEObjectQuery();

public:

	RPointerArray<CMdEPropertyDef>& PropertyFilter();	

	RPointerArray<CMdEObjectDef>* ObjectDefs() const;

    CMdEObjectQuery(CMdESession& aSession, CMdENamespaceDef& aNamespaceDef, 

    		CMdEObjectDef& aObjectDef, RPointerArray<CMdEObjectDef>* aObjectDefs);

protected:

	/* Constructors. */

    /**

     * Constuctor.

     *

     * @param aSession  Session.

     */

	/**

	 * Second-phase constructor.

	 */

	void ObjectQueryConstructL();

    virtual void DoCancel();

private:

    /* Private methods. */

private:

    /** 

     * Properties to include when fetching results. Empty, if

     * all available properties should be fetched. 

     */

    RPointerArray<CMdEPropertyDef> iPropertyFilters;

	/**

	 * Query's object definition.

	 */

	CMdEObjectDef& iObjectDef;

	/**

	 * Query's object definition.

	 */

	RPointerArray<CMdEObjectDef>* iObjectDefs;

	/**

	 * Speed optimization to drop freetexts from results.

	 */

	TBool iFreetextsInResult;

    };

#endif  // __MDEOBJECTQUERY_H__