1 /* This file is part of the KDE project
2    Copyright (C) 2004 Lucijan Busch <lucijan@kde.org>
3 
4    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
6    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
7    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
8 
9    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
12    Library General Public License for more details.
13 
14    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
15    along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
16    the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
17  * Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
18 */
19 
20 #ifndef KEXIPARTDATASOURCE_H
21 #define KEXIPARTDATASOURCE_H
22 
23 class KexiProject;
24 class KDbFieldList;
25 class KDbCursor;
26 
27 namespace KexiPart
28 {
29 class DataSourcePrivate;
30 class Item;
31 class Part;
32 
33 /**
34  * this class provides a datasource framework for e.g. tables and queries
35  * using this framework one can query for
36  *  - a list of datasources
37  *  - the fileds in datasources
38  *  - variables (e.g. query variables)
39  */
40 class KEXICORE_EXPORT DataSource
41 {
42 public:
43     explicit DataSource(Part *part);
44     virtual ~DataSource();
45 
46     /**
47      * @returns a list of fileds for the datasource
48      * @arg id is the document id for the source
49      */
50     virtual KDbFieldList *fields(KexiProject *project, const KexiPart::Item &item) = 0;
51 
52     /**
53      * @returns the cursor
54      */
55     virtual KDbCursor *cursor(KexiProject *project, const KexiPart::Item &item, bool buffer) = 0;
56 
57     /**
58      * @returns the part providing this datasource
59      */
60     Part *part() const;
61 
62 private:
63     DataSourcePrivate * const d;
64 };
65 
66 }
67 
68 #endif
69 
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