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 *
 *  Copyright 2008 Szymon Tomasz Stefanek <pragma@kvirc.net>
 *
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#ifndef __MESSAGELIST_CORE_MESSAGEITEMSETMANAGER_H__
#define __MESSAGELIST_CORE_MESSAGEITEMSETMANAGER_H__

#include <QHash>
#include <QList>

namespace MessageList
{

namespace Core
{

class MessageItem;

typedef long int MessageItemSetReference;

/**
 * This class manages sets of messageitem references.
 * It can be used to create a set, add some messages to it
 * and get a reference that later can be used to retrieve
 * the stored messages.
 *
 * It's used by Model to keep track of jobs requested
 * from outside that operate on sets of MessageItem instances.
 * Model takes care of removing the deleted MessageItem objects
 * from the sets in order to avoid invalid references.
 */
class MessageItemSetManager
{
public:
  MessageItemSetManager();
  ~MessageItemSetManager();

private:
  QHash< MessageItemSetReference, QHash< MessageItem *, MessageItem * > * > * mSets;

public:
  void clearAllSets();
  int setCount() const
    { return mSets->count(); };
  void removeSet( MessageItemSetReference ref );
  void removeMessageItemFromAllSets( MessageItem * mi );
  QList< MessageItem * > messageItems( MessageItemSetReference ref );
  MessageItemSetReference createSet();
  bool addMessageItem( MessageItemSetReference ref, MessageItem * mi );
};

} // namespace Core

} // namespace MessageList

#endif //!__MESSAGELIST_CORE_MESSAGEITEMSETMANAGER_H__
