/*

 * Copyright (c) 1998-2009 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: 

 *

 */

 #ifndef __T_INPUTEXTRA_H__

 #define __T_INPUTEXTRA_H__

 #include <e32cons.h>

 #include <f32file.h>

 #include <e32std.h>

 #include <badesca.h> 

 #include "t_input.h"

 /**

  * This class provides useful functions to read and parse the input file.

  */

 class InputExtra : public Input

 	{

 public: 

 	/*

 	Reads multilpe files into a 8 bit buffer array

 	CDesCArray& aFilenames	[IN] - Array of filename to read

 	const TDesC& aPath		[IN] - (Optional) Path of files, if missing path must be included in aFilenames

 	RFs& aFs				[IN] - Reference to the file system handle class

 	Returns

 	HBufC8*		-  Pointer to the 8 bit file data

 	*/

 	IMPORT_C static HBufC8* ReadFilesLC(CDesCArray& aFilenames, RFs& aFs);

 	IMPORT_C static HBufC8* ReadFilesLC(CDesCArray& aFilenames, const TDesC& aPath, RFs& aFs);

 	/*

 	Reads a ascii hex file into a binary HBufC i.e. a file containing "FFAA11" will be converted into a 3 byte buffer

 	Parameters

 	const TDesC& aFilename 	[IN] - Name of file including path to read

 	RFs &aFs			[IN] - Reference to the file system handle class

 	Returns

 	HBufC8*		-  Pointer to the 8 bit file data

 	*/

 	IMPORT_C static HBufC8* ReadHexFileLC(const TDesC& aFilename, RFs& aFs);

 	/**

 	 * This function reads an entire Unicode file and returns it as an HBufC.

 	 * This function only works for Unicode builds of EPOC.

 	 */

 	IMPORT_C static HBufC* ReadFile16LC(const TDesC& aFilename, RFs& aFS);

 	};

 #endif