/*

* Copyright (c) 2007 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 

                 CCbsMessageClient class.

*

*                CCbsMessageClient provides the interface e.g for Cover UI for

*                accessing the CBS server.

*

*

*/

#ifndef     CCBSMESSAGECLIENT_H

#define     CCBSMESSAGECLIENT_H

// INCLUDES

//  CLASS DECLARATION

/**

*   CBS Message API e.g for Cover UI's needs. This API is a smaller snapshot

*   of CBS Client API.

*

*   @lib CbsClient.lib

*   @since 3.2

*/

class CCbsMessageClient : public CBase

    {

    public:     // New functions

        /**

        *   Instantiates new CCbsMessageClient object. During instantaion

        *   connection to CBS Server is created.

        *

        *   @return     A new instance of CCbsMessageClient

        */

        IMPORT_C static CCbsMessageClient* NewL();

        /**

        *   Finds a message by given handle.

        *

        *   @param  aHandle     Handle to the message.

        *   @param  aMessage    Return: contains the message information.

        *   @return             Error code.

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt FindMessageByHandle(

            const TCbsMessageHandle& aHandle,

            TCbsMessage& aMessage ) = 0;

        /**

        *   Finds the topic by the given number.

        *

        *   Return values:        

        *

        *   @param  aNumber         Number of the topic

        *   @param  aTopic          Return: contains the topic information

        *   @return KErrNone        Topic returned as parameter

        *   @return KErrNotFound    Topic was not found

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt FindTopicByNumber( const TCbsTopicNumber aNumber,

            TCbsTopic& aTopic ) = 0;

        /**

        *   Returns the total amount of topics the topic list contains.

        *

        *   @return                 Contains the total amount of topics.

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt TopicCount() = 0;

        /**

        *   Returns information about a topic from the topic list.        

        *

        *   @param  aIndex       Index to the topic.

        *   @param  aTopic       It will contain the topic information.

        *   @return KErrArgument Topic was not found. Rest of return values

        *                        indicate a file error.

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt GetTopic( const TInt aIndex, TCbsTopic& aTopic ) = 0;

        /**

        *   Returns the total amount of unread messages.

        *

        *   @return             Number of unread messages

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt UnreadMessageCount() = 0;

        /**

        *   Returns the total amount of messages the topic contains.

        *

        *   Return codes:

        *               

        *   

        *

        *   @param  aNumber         Number of the topic.

        *   @param  aCount          Number of messages in given topic.

        *   @return KErrNotFound    Invalid handle

        *   @return KErrNone        aCount contains the number of messages 

        *                           in topic

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt GetMessageCount( const TCbsTopicNumber aNumber,

            TInt& aCount ) = 0;

        /**

        *   Returns message information.

        *

        *   @param  aNumber         Number of the topic

        *   @param  aIndex          Index to the message in topic.

        *   @param  aMessage        Returns: the message information

        *   @return KErrNotFound    Topic or message not found

        *   @return KErrNone        aMessage contains the message information

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt GetMessage( const TCbsTopicNumber aNumber, const TInt aIndex,

            TCbsMessage& aMessage ) = 0;

        /**

        *   Returns the message contents.

        *

        *   @param  aHandle     Handle to the message.

        *   @param  aBuffer     It will contain the contents (as much as it fits).

        *   @return             Error code.

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt GetMessageContents(

            const TCbsMessageHandle& aHandle,

            TDes& aBuffer ) = 0;

        /**

        *   Sets the message as read.

        *

        *   @param  aHandle     Handle to the message to be set read.

        *   @return             Error code.

        */

        IMPORT_C virtual TInt SetMessageAsRead( const TCbsMessageHandle& aHandle ) = 0;

    protected:

        /**

        *   Default constructor.

        */

        CCbsMessageClient();

    };

#endif      //  CCBSMESSAGECLIENT_H

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