contentmgmt/contentaccessfwfordrm/engineering/dox/RightsManagerAPI.dox
author andy simpson <andrews@symbian.org>
Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:41:51 +0000
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// Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
// All rights reserved.
// This component and the accompanying materials are made available
// under the terms of the License "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:
// <hr>
// The Rights manager API gives simple access to the rights within a CAF agent implementing a DRM scheme. 
// The rights are represented in a generic form using the <code>ContentAccess::CRightsInfo</code> class. This simple class
// just holds a text description of the rights and some simple properties assocaiated with those
// rights.
// The Rights manager also allows applications to determine which content files are assocated with
// each Rights object and vice versa.
// <hr>
// The <code>ContentAccess::CRightsManager</code> object is created by the <code>ContentAccess::CManager</code> object to look at the rights stored by a 
// particular content access agent.
// // create the CManager object
// CManager* manager = CManager::NewL();
// //Create RPointerArray to store pointers to the agents
// RPointerArray <CAgent> agentArray;
// // Get the list of agents
// manager->ListAgentsL(agentArray);
// // Create a CRightsManager for the first agent
// CRightsManager *rightsManager = manager->CreateRightsManagerL(agentArray[0]);
// <hr>
// The <code>ContentAccess::CRightsManager::ListAllRightsL()</code> function produces a list of all the rights stored
// in the given a DRM agent.
// // Create the array to store Rights objects
// RStreamablePtrArray<CRightsInfo> myArray;
// CleanupClosePushL(myArray);
// // Get the Rights objects from the agent
// rightsManager->ListAllRightsL(myArray);
// // count the number of Rights objects
// TInt numRights = myArray.Count();
// // clear the contents of the array
// CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy();
// <hr>
// The <code>ContentAccess::CRightsManager::ListRightsL()</code> function produces a list of all the rights stored
// in the given a DRM agent that are associated with the file at a given URI.
// // Create the array to store Rights objects
// RStreamablePtrArray<CRightsInfo> myArray;
// CleanupClosePushL(myArray);
// // Get the Rights objects assocated with the content
// rightsManager->ListRightsL(myArray, uri);
// // Count the number of Rights objects associated with the content
// TInt numRights = myArray.Count();
// // clear the contents of the array
// CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy();
// <hr>
// The <code>ContentAccess::CRightsManager::ListRightsL()</code> function produces a list of all the rights stored
// in the given a DRM agent that are associated with the content object at a given virtual path
// // Create the array to store Rights objects
// RStreamablePtrArray<CRightsInfo> myArray;
// CleanupClosePushL(myArray);
// // Get the Rights objects assocated with the content
// rightsManager->ListRightsL(myArray, virtualPath);
// // Count the number of Rights objects associated with the content
// TInt numRights = myArray.Count();
// // clear the contents of the array
// CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy();
// <hr>
// The <code>ContentAccess::CRightsManager::ListContentL()</code> function produces a list of all the content
// that is associated with the given Rights object.
// // Create the array to store Rights objects
// RStreamablePtrArray<CRightsInfo> rightsArray;
// CleanupClosePushL(rightsArray);
// rightsManager->ListAllRightsL(rightsArray);
// // get the first CRightsInfo object
// CRightsInfo* rightsObject = rightsArray[0];
// RStreamablePtrArray<CVirtualPath> contentArray;
// CleanupClosePushL(contentArray);
// // Get the array of content objects associated with the rights
// rightsManager->ListContentL(contentArray, rightsObject);
// // count the number of content objects
// TInt numContentObjects = contentArray.Count();
// // produce listing
// // Finished
// CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(2);		// rightsArray, contentArray
// <hr>
// The <code>ContentAccess::CRightsManager::GetRightsDataL()</code> function allows an application to 
// retrieve a pointer to a Rights object. The Rights object is derived from <code>MAgentRightsBase</code>.
// // Retrieve the full Rights object 
// // The application will need to cast it to the agent's derived Rights class before using it.
// MAgentRightsBase* rightsObject = rightsManager->GetRightsDataL(rightsObject);
// <hr>
// The <code>ContentAccess::CRightsManager::DeleteRightsObject()</code> function allows an application to 
// delete rights stored by the agent.
// // Delete the Rights object
// TInt result = rightsManager->DeleteRightsObject(rightsObject);
// It is also possible to delete all the rights associated with a particular content object.
// // Delete all the Rights objects associated with the given content object
// TInt result = rightsManager->DeleteAllRights(virtualPath);
// <hr>
// 
//

/**
 @page CAFRightsManager Rights Manager API
 - @ref RightsManagerAPI
 - @ref CreatingRightsManager
 - @ref ListingAllRights 
 - @ref ListingRightsURI
 - @ref ListingRightsVP
 - @ref ListingContent
 - @ref RetrievingRights 
 - @ref DeletingRights 
 @section RightsManagerAPI Rights manager API
 @section CreatingRightsManager Creating a CRightsManager Object
 @code
 @endcode
 @section ListingAllRights Listing all Rights objects
 @code
 @endcode
 @section ListingRightsURI List the rights associated with a content file
 @code
 @endcode
 @section ListingRightsVP List the rights associated with a content object
 @code
 @endcode
 @section ListingContent List the content associated with a Rights object
 @code
 @endcode
 @section RetrievingRights Retrieving a Rights Object
 @code
 @endcode
 @section DeletingRights Deleting a Rights Object
 @code
 @endcode
 @code
 @endcode
*/