/*
  This file is part of the kcalcore library.

  SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

  SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later
*/
/*
  @file
  This file is part of the API for handling calendar data and
  defines the FreeBusyCache abstract base class.
*/

#ifndef KCALCORE_FREEBUSYCACHE_H
#define KCALCORE_FREEBUSYCACHE_H

#include "kcalendarcore_export.h"

#include "freebusy.h"

class QString;

namespace KCalendarCore
{
class Person;

/*!
  \class KCalendarCore::FreeBusyCache
  \inmodule KCalendarCore
  \inheaderfile KCalendarCore/FreeBusyCache
  \brief
  An abstract base class to allow different implementations of storing
  free busy information, e.g. local storage or storage on a Kolab server.
*/
class KCALENDARCORE_EXPORT FreeBusyCache
{
public:
    /*!
      Destructor.
    */
    virtual ~FreeBusyCache();

    /*!
      Save freebusy information belonging to an email.

      \a freebusy is a pointer to a valid FreeBusy instance.

      \a person is a valid Person instance.

      Returns true if the save was successful; false otherwise.
    */
    virtual bool saveFreeBusy(const FreeBusy::Ptr &freebusy, const Person &person) = 0;

    /*!
      Load freebusy information belonging to an email.

      \a email is a QString containing a email string in the
        "FirstName LastName <emailaddress>" format.

      Returns A pointer to the FreeBusy object loaded for the specified email; returns 0 if
        there was some problem attempting to load the FreeBusy information.
    */
    virtual FreeBusy::Ptr loadFreeBusy(const QString &email) = 0;

protected:
    /*
      TODO: appears to be unused
    */
    virtual void virtual_hook(int id, void *data);
};

}

#endif