/*
    Copyright 2006 Kevin Ottens <ervin@kde.org>

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) version 3, or any
    later version accepted by the membership of KDE e.V. (or its
    successor approved by the membership of KDE e.V.), which shall
    act as a proxy defined in Section 6 of version 3 of the license.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License along with this library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/

#ifndef SOLID_IFACES_BLOCK_H
#define SOLID_IFACES_BLOCK_H

#include <solid/ifaces/deviceinterface.h>

namespace Solid
{
namespace Ifaces
{
    /**
     * This device interface is available on block devices.
     *
     * A block device is an adressable device such as drive or partition.
     * It is possible to interact with such a device using a special file
     * in the system.
     */
    class Block : virtual public DeviceInterface
    {
    public:
        /**
         * Destroys a Block object.
         */
        virtual ~Block();

        /**
         * Retrieves the major number of the node file to interact with
         * the device.
         *
         * @return the device major number
         */
        virtual int deviceMajor() const = 0;

        /**
         * Retrieves the minor number of the node file to interact with
         * the device.
         *
         * @return the device minor number
         */
        virtual int deviceMinor() const = 0;

        /**
         * Retrieves the absolute path of the special file to interact
         * with the device.
         *
         * @return the absolute path of the special file to interact with
         * the device
         */
        virtual QString device() const = 0;
    };
}
}

Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE(Solid::Ifaces::Block, "org.kde.Solid.Ifaces.Block/0.1")

#endif
