devicemanager.h

/*
    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 Kevin Ottens <ervin@kde.org>
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only OR LGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-LGPL
*/
 
#ifndef SOLID_IFACES_DEVICEMANAGER_H
#define SOLID_IFACES_DEVICEMANAGER_H
 
#include <QObject>
 
#include <QStringList>
 
#include <solid/deviceinterface.h>
 
namespace Solid
{
namespace Ifaces
{
/**
 * This class specifies the interface a backend will have to implement in
 * order to be used in the system.
 *
 * A device manager allows to query the underlying platform to discover the
 * available devices. It has also the responsibility to notify when a device
 * appears or disappears.
 */
class DeviceManager : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
 
public:
    /**
     * Constructs a DeviceManager
     */
    DeviceManager(QObject *parent = nullptr);
    /**
     * Destructs a DeviceManager object
     */
    ~DeviceManager() override;
 
    /**
     * Retrieves the prefix used for the UDIs off all the devices
     * reported by the device manager
     */
    virtual QString udiPrefix() const = 0;
 
    /**
     * Retrieves a set of interfaces the backend supports
     */
    virtual QSet<Solid::DeviceInterface::Type> supportedInterfaces() const = 0;
 
    /**
     * Retrieves the Universal Device Identifier (UDI) of all the devices
     * available in the system. This identifier is unique for each device
     * in the system.
     *
     * @returns the UDIs of all the devices in the system
     */
    virtual QStringList allDevices() = 0;
 
    /**
     * Retrieves the Universal Device Identifier (UDI) of all the devices
     * matching the given constraints (parent and device interface)
     *
     * @param parentUdi UDI of the parent of the devices we're searching for, or QString()
     * if there's no constraint on the parent
     * @param type DeviceInterface type available on the devices we're looking for, or DeviceInterface::Unknown
     * if there's no constraint on the device interfaces
     * @returns the UDIs of all the devices having the given parent and device interface
     */
    virtual QStringList devicesFromQuery(const QString &parentUdi, Solid::DeviceInterface::Type type = Solid::DeviceInterface::Unknown) = 0;
 
    /**
     * Instantiates a new Device object from this backend given its UDI.
     *
     * @param udi the identifier of the device instantiated
     * @returns a new Device object if there's a device having the given UDI, nullptr otherwise
     */
    virtual QObject *createDevice(const QString &udi) = 0;
 
Q_SIGNALS:
    /**
     * This signal is emitted when a new device appears in the system.
     *
     * @param udi the new device identifier
     */
    void deviceAdded(const QString &udi);
 
    /**
     * This signal is emitted when a device disappears from the system.
     *
     * @param udi the old device identifier
     */
    void deviceRemoved(const QString &udi);
};
}
}
 
#endif