/***************************************************************************
File                 : AbstractFileFilter.h
Project              : LabPlot/SciDAVis
Description          : file I/O-filter related interface for plugins
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Copyright            : (C) 2009-2013 Alexander Semke (alexander.semke@web.de)
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#ifndef ABSTRACTFILEFILTER_H
#define ABSTRACTFILEFILTER_H

// #include <QtPlugin>
#include "backend/lib/XmlStreamReader.h"
#include <QXmlStreamWriter>

class AbstractDataSource;

class AbstractFileFilter : public QObject {
	Q_OBJECT
// 	Q_INTERFACES(AbstractFileFilter)

	public:
		AbstractFileFilter() {};
		virtual ~AbstractFileFilter() {}
		enum ImportMode {Append, Prepend, Replace};
		
		virtual void read(const QString& fileName, AbstractDataSource* dataSource, ImportMode mode = Replace) = 0;
		virtual void write(const QString& fileName, AbstractDataSource* dataSource) = 0;

		virtual void loadFilterSettings(const QString& filterName) = 0;
		virtual void saveFilterSettings(const QString& filterName) const = 0;

		virtual void save(QXmlStreamWriter*) const = 0;
		virtual bool load(XmlStreamReader*) = 0;

	signals:
		void completed(int) const; //!< int ranging from 0 to 100 notifies about the status of a read/write process		
};

#endif
