/*
    Copyright 2006-2007 Kevin Ottens <ervin@kde.org>

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3, or any
    later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
    successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
    act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License along with this library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/

#ifndef SOLID_CAMERA_H
#define SOLID_CAMERA_H

#include <solid/solid_export.h>

#include <solid/deviceinterface.h>

#include <QtCore/QStringList>
#include <QtCore/QVariant>

namespace Solid
{
    class CameraPrivate;
    class Device;

    /**
     * This device interface is available on digital camera devices.
     *
     * A digital camera is a device used to transform images into
     * data. Nowaday most digital cameras are multifunctional and
     * able to take photographs, video or sound. On the system side
     * they are a particular type of device holding data, the access
     * method can be different from the typical storage device, hence
     * why it's a separate device interface.
     */
    class SOLID_EXPORT Camera : public DeviceInterface
    {
        Q_OBJECT
        Q_PROPERTY(QStringList supportedProtocols READ supportedProtocols)
        Q_PROPERTY(QStringList supportedDrivers READ supportedDrivers)
        Q_DECLARE_PRIVATE(Camera)
        friend class Device;

    private:
        /**
         * Creates a new Camera object.
         * You generally won't need this. It's created when necessary using
         * Device::as().
         *
         * @param backendObject the device interface object provided by the backend
         * @see Solid::Device::as()
         */
        explicit Camera(QObject *backendObject);

    public:
        /**
         * Destroys a Camera object.
         */
        virtual ~Camera();


        /**
         * Get the Solid::DeviceInterface::Type of the Camera device interface.
         *
         * @return the Camera device interface type
         * @see Solid::DeviceInterface::Type
         */
        static Type deviceInterfaceType() { return DeviceInterface::Camera; }



        /**
         * Retrieves known protocols this device can speak.  This list may be dependent
         * on installed device driver libraries.
         *
         * @return a list of known protocols this device can speak
         */
        QStringList supportedProtocols() const;

        /**
         * Retrieves known installed device drivers that claim to handle this device
         * using the requested protocol.  If protocol is blank, returns a list of
         * all drivers supporting the device.
         *
         * @param protocol The protocol to get drivers for.
         * @return a list of installed drivers meeting the criteria
         */
        QStringList supportedDrivers(QString protocol = QString()) const;

        /**
         * Retrieves a driver specific string allowing to access the device.
         *
         * For example for the "gphoto" driver it will return a list of the
         * form '("usb", vendor_id, product_id)'.
         *
         * @return the driver specific data
         */
        QVariant driverHandle(const QString &driver) const;
    };
}

#endif
