/*
* Copyright (c) 2002-2006 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:        Defines the ECom interface for Sen Security Mechanism plug-ins
*
*/








#ifndef SEN_PASSWORD_TRANSFORM_H
#define SEN_PASSWORD_TRANSFORM_H

// INCLUDES
#include <ecom/ecom.h>

#include "msencoreservicemanager.h"

// CLASS DECLARATION

/**
* Custom ECOM interface definition. This interface is used by
* clients to find specific security mechanism plugin instance
* implementations which implement pure virtual functions.
*/
class CSenPasswordTransform : public CBase
    {
    public: // Constructors and destructor

        /**
        * Wraps ECom object instantiation, which returns the
        * default interface implementation.
        * Note: This is not a "normal" NewL method, since normally NewL
        * methods are only defined for concrete classes.
        * Note that the implementations of this interface
        * ALSO provide NewL methods. They are the familiar
        * EPOC NewL's, which create instance of classes.
        */
        static CSenPasswordTransform* NewL(MSenCoreServiceManager& aManager);

        /**
        * Wraps ECom object instantitation, which returns the
        * interface implementation matching to given aCue.
        * IMPLEMENTATION_INFO::default_data.
        * For details, see EcomSIFDefinition.inl comments.
        * Note: This is not a "normal" NewL method, since normally NewL
        * methods are only defined for concrete classes.
        * Note that the implementations of this interface ALSO
        * provide NewL methods. They are the familiar EPOC NewL's,
        * which create instances of classes.
        * @param: aCue is the "name" of the requested implementation.
        *              Implementations advertise their cue as specified
        *              in their resource file field
        */
        static CSenPasswordTransform* NewL(const TDesC8& aCue,
                                           MSenCoreServiceManager& aManager);
        /**
        * Destructor.
        */
        virtual ~CSenPasswordTransform();

        // New functions
        
        // the actual security mechanism interface methods

        /**
        * Set transform parameters
        *  @return KErrNone or one of the system-wide error codes,
        *          KErrNotSupported, if parameter name is unknown!
        */
        virtual TInt SetParameterL(TPtrC8 aName, TPtrC8 aValue) = 0;

        /**
        * Does the actual tranform
        * @return the transformed password.
        * Caller takes ownership of the returned object. Never returns NULL.
        */
        virtual HBufC8* TransformL(TPtrC8 aPassphrase) const = 0;

    protected:

        /**
        * C++ default constructor.
        */
        CSenPasswordTransform(MSenCoreServiceManager& aServiceManager);

    protected: // Data
        // to access base64, encoding/decoding
        MSenCoreServiceManager& iServiceManager;    

    private: // Data
        /** 
        * Instance identifier key. When instance of an implementation is created 
        * by ECOM framework, the framework will assign UID for it. 
        * The UID is used in destructor to notify framework that this instance is
      * being destroyed and resources can be released.
      */
        TUid iDtor_ID_Key;
    };

// This includes the implementation of the instantiation functions and destructor
#include "senpasswordtransform.inl"

#endif // SEN_PASSWORD_TRANSFORM_H

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