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#ifndef DBPLUGIN_H
#define DBPLUGIN_H
#include "db/db.h"
#include "db/dbpluginoption.h"
#include "plugins/plugin.h"
/**
* @brief Interface for database plugins
*
* This is a specialization of Plugin interface, which all database plugins have to implement.
*/
class API_EXPORT DbPlugin : virtual public Plugin
{
public:
/**
* @brief Creates database instance defined by the plugin.
* @param name Name for the database.
* @param path Path to the database file.
* @param options Options for the database passed while registering the database in the application.
* @param errorMessage If the result is null (on failure) and this pointer is not null, the error message will be stored in it.
* @return Database instance on success, or null pointer on failure.
*
* Options can contain for example password for an encrypted database, or other connection options.
*/
virtual Db* getInstance(const QString& name, const QString& path, const QHash<QString,QVariant> &options, QString* errorMessage = 0) = 0;
/**
* @brief Provides label of what type is the database.
* @return Type label.
*
* The label is used for presenting to the user what kind of database this is. It's used on GUI
* to display database type in databases dialog. It's usually "SQLite3",
* but it may be something else, like for example encrypted database might provide "Encrypted SQLite3",
* or something similar.
*/
virtual QString getLabel() const = 0;
/**
* @brief Provides list of options configurable for this database plugin.
* @return List of options.
*
* DbDialog uses this to provide GUI interface, so user can configure connection options.
* For each element in the list DbDialog adds QLabel and the input widget for entering option value.
* Option values entered by user are later passed to getInstance() as second argument.
*/
virtual QList<DbPluginOption> getOptionsList() const = 0;
/**
* @brief Generates suggestion for database name.
* @param baseValue Value enterd as file path in DbDialog.
* @return Generated name suggestion.
*
* This can be simply string representation of \p baseValue,
* but the plugin may add something characteristic for the plugin.
*/
virtual QString generateDbName(const QVariant& baseValue) = 0;
/**
* @brief Tests if the given database support is provided by this plugin.
* @param db Database to test.
* @return true if the database is supported by this plugin, or false otherwise.
*
* Implementation of this method should check if given database object
* is of the same type, that those returned from getInstance().
*
* This method is used by DbManager to find out which databases are supported by which plugins,
* so when some plugin is about to be unloaded, all its databases are closed properly first.
*/
virtual bool checkIfDbServedByPlugin(Db* db) const = 0;
};
#endif // DBPLUGIN_H
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