williamr@4: // Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
williamr@4: // All rights reserved.
williamr@4: // This component and the accompanying materials are made available
williamr@4: // under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
williamr@4: // which accompanies this distribution, and is available
williamr@4: // at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
williamr@4: //
williamr@4: // Initial Contributors:
williamr@4: // Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
williamr@4: //
williamr@4: // Contributors:
williamr@4: //
williamr@4: // Description:
williamr@4: // Interface class describing class that may be used as
williamr@4: // serializer for binary data
williamr@4: //
williamr@2: 
williamr@2: 
williamr@2: 
williamr@2: /**
williamr@4:  @file
williamr@4:  @publishedAll
williamr@4:  @released
williamr@4: */
williamr@4: #ifndef XMLENGMDATASERIALIZER_H
williamr@4: #define XMLENGMDATASERIALIZER_H
williamr@4: 
williamr@4: #include <xml/dom/xmlengnode.h>
williamr@4: 
williamr@4: /**
williamr@4: This interface is used to serialize binary data stored in a node, external
williamr@4: memory chunk (RChunk) or file.  This interface may be implemented by client
williamr@4: applications.
williamr@4: @see TXmlEngSerializationOptions
williamr@4: */
williamr@2: class MXmlEngDataSerializer
williamr@2:     {
williamr@2: public:
williamr@4:     /** 
williamr@4: 	Serializes the node.  The implementor of this class must allocate and own
williamr@4: 	the memory returned by this method until serialization is complete.
williamr@4:     @param aNode A node to serialize
williamr@4:     @return The serialized node
williamr@4: 	@leave - One of the system-wide error codes
williamr@4:     */
williamr@2:     virtual TPtrC8 SerializeDataL(TXmlEngNode aNode) = 0;
williamr@2:     };
williamr@2: 
williamr@2: 
williamr@4: #endif /* XMLENGMDATASERIALIZER_H */