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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2005-2006 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:  Plugin state main class
+*
+*/
+
+
+#ifndef M_AIPLUGINSTATE_H
+#define M_AIPLUGINSTATE_H
+
+#include "aipluginstatemachine.h"
+
+/**
+ * Plugin state interface.
+ * 
+ *  @lib aifw
+ *  @since S60 3.2
+ */
+class MAiPluginState
+    {
+public:
+    
+    /**
+     * This method is called when state is entered.
+     * 
+     * @param aStateMachine reference to the owning state machine.
+     * @param aStateChange the system state variable change that caused this 
+     *        state change.
+     */
+    virtual void Enter( MAiPluginStateMachine& aStateMachine,
+                        TAiStateChanges aStateChange ) = 0;
+    
+    /**
+     * This method handles system state variable state changes
+     * handles events in the current state.
+     * 
+     * @param aStateMachine reference to the owning state machine.
+     * @param aStateChange the system state variable change that is the cause
+     *        of this event.
+     * @return TBool did the state handle the event.
+     */
+    virtual TBool HandleEvent( MAiPluginStateMachine& aStateMachine,
+                              TAiStateChanges aStateChange ) = 0;
+    
+    /**
+     * This method is called when state is exited.
+     * 
+     * @param aStateMachine reference to the owning state machine.
+     * @param aStateChange the system state variable change that caused this 
+     *        state change.
+     */
+    virtual void Exit( MAiPluginStateMachine& aStateMachine,
+                       TAiStateChanges aStateChange ) = 0;
+
+protected:
+
+    ~MAiPluginState()
+        {
+        };
+    
+    };
+
+#endif // M_AIPLUGINSTATE_H