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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2007-2008 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:   This file contains the header file of the IAUpdateTools functions
+*
+*/
+
+
+
+#ifndef IA_UPDATE_TOOLS_H
+#define IA_UPDATE_TOOLS_H
+
+#include <e32base.h>
+#include <e32cmn.h>
+
+class RReadStream;
+class RWriteStream;
+
+
+/**
+ * IAUpdateTools provides general tool functions
+ *
+ * @since S60 v3.2
+ */
+namespace IAUpdateTools
+    {
+
+    /**
+     * @param aTarget The old pointer data will be deleted and the pointer will point to the new data 
+     * that will contain externalization of the CIAUpdateParameters object.
+     * @param aSource CIAUpdateParameters object that will be externalized to a descriptor.
+     * @exception Leaves with system wide error code.
+     */
+    IMPORT_C void ExternalizeParametersL( HBufC8*& aTarget,
+                                          const CIAUpdateParameters& aSource );
+
+    /**
+     * Internalizes CIAUpdateParameters from the source descriptor data.
+     *
+     * @param aTarget CIAUpdateParameters object that will be internalized.
+     * @param aSource Data that is used to internalize CIAUpdateParameters object.
+     * @exception Leaves with system wide error code.
+     */
+    IMPORT_C void InternalizeParametersL( CIAUpdateParameters& aTarget, 
+                                          const TDesC8& aSource );
+
+
+    /**
+     * Externalizes the descriptor to the stream with length information
+     *
+     * @param aDes Descriptor to externalize
+     * @param aStream Target stream
+     * @exception Leaves with system wide error code.
+     */
+    IMPORT_C void ExternalizeDesL( const TDesC& aDes, 
+                                   RWriteStream& aStream );
+
+    /**
+     * Internalizes a descriptor written with ExternalizeDesL() from the stream
+     *
+     * @param Target descriptor pointer. Old descriptor is deleted if the read is 
+     * successful.
+     * @param aStream Source stream
+     * @return Length of the read data
+     * @exception Leaves with system wide error code. 
+     */
+    IMPORT_C TInt InternalizeDesL( HBufC*& aDes, 
+                                   RReadStream& aStream );
+
+
+    /**
+     * @see ExternalizeDesL
+     */
+    IMPORT_C void ExternalizeDes8L( const TDesC8& aDes, 
+                                    RWriteStream& aStream );
+
+    /**
+     * @see InternalizeDesL
+     */
+    IMPORT_C TInt InternalizeDes8L( HBufC8*& aDes, 
+                                    RReadStream& aStream );
+
+    }
+
+#endif // IA_UPDATE_TOOLS_H