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authorzecke <zecke>2003-04-13 18:07:10 (UTC)
committer zecke <zecke>2003-04-13 18:07:10 (UTC)
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More API doc
QString -> const QString& QString = 0l -> QString::null
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diff --git a/libopie2/opiepim/backend/ocontactaccessbackend.h b/libopie2/opiepim/backend/ocontactaccessbackend.h
index 821f5bf..ebeb42d 100644
--- a/libopie2/opiepim/backend/ocontactaccessbackend.h
+++ b/libopie2/opiepim/backend/ocontactaccessbackend.h
@@ -14,16 +14,21 @@
* version.
* =====================================================================
* ToDo: Define enum for query settings
* =====================================================================
* Version: $Id$
* =====================================================================
* History:
* $Log$
+ * Revision 1.5 2003/04/13 18:07:10 zecke
+ * More API doc
+ * QString -> const QString&
+ * QString = 0l -> QString::null
+ *
* Revision 1.4 2002/11/13 14:14:51 eilers
* Added sorted for Contacts..
*
* Revision 1.3 2002/11/01 15:10:42 eilers
* Added regExp-search in database for all fields in a contact.
*
* Revision 1.2 2002/10/07 17:34:24 eilers
* added OBackendFactory for advanced backend access
@@ -39,47 +44,64 @@
*/
#ifndef _OCONTACTACCESSBACKEND_H_
#define _OCONTACTACCESSBACKEND_H_
#include "ocontact.h"
#include "opimaccessbackend.h"
-#include "qregexp.h"
+#include <qregexp.h>
+/**
+ * This class represents the interface of all Contact Backends.
+ * Derivates of this class will be used to access the contacts.
+ * As implementation currently XML and vCard exist. This class needs to be implemented
+ * if you want to provide your own storage.
+ * In all queries a list of uids is passed on instead of loading the actual record!
+ *
+ * @see OContactAccessBackend_VCard
+ * @see OContactAccessBackend_XML
+ */
class OContactAccessBackend: public OPimAccessBackend<OContact> {
public:
OContactAccessBackend() {}
virtual ~OContactAccessBackend() {}
- /** Return if database was changed externally.
+ /**
+ * Return if database was changed externally.
* This may just make sense on file based databases like a XML-File.
* It is used to prevent to overwrite the current database content
* if the file was already changed by something else !
* If this happens, we have to reload before save our data.
* If we use real databases, this should be handled by the database
* management system themselve, therefore this function should always return false in
* this case. It is not our problem to handle this conflict ...
* @return <i>true</i> if the database was changed and if save without reload will
* be dangerous. <i>false</i> if the database was not changed or it is save to write
* in this situation.
*/
virtual bool wasChangedExternally() = 0;
virtual QArray<int> matchRegexp( const QRegExp &r ) const = 0;
- /** Return all possible settings.
+ /**
+ * Return all possible settings.
* @return All settings provided by the current backend
* (i.e.: query_WildCards & query_IgnoreCase)
*/
virtual const uint querySettings() = 0;
- /** Check whether settings are correct.
+ /**
+ * Check whether settings are correct.
* @return <i>true</i> if the given settings are correct and possible.
*/
virtual bool hasQuerySettings (uint querySettings) const = 0;
- virtual QArray<int> sorted( bool ascending, int sortOrder, int sortFilter, int cat ) = 0;
+ /**
+ * FIXME!!!
+ * Returns a sorted list of records either ascendinf or descending for a giving criteria and category
+ */
+ virtual QArray<int> sorted( bool ascending, int sortOrder, int sortFilter, int cat ) = 0;
};
#endif