CAF v2.14 release notes

the v2.x release of CAF is binary compatible for applications currently using CAF v1.0,

there are several deprecated functions which will be removed in a future release,

it is not source compatible for Content Access Agents implementing the CAF v1.0 API, they will need significant modifications to work with this release of CAF,

Content Access Agent interface UID changed to 0x10204740 for CAF v2.0 agents. This prevents CAF v2.0 trying to load CAF v1.0 agents and vice versa.

API documentation has been updated to clarify the usage of the asynchronous APIs.

New section 'Making an asynchronous SendReceive() call in an agent plugin' added to documentation.

Added new error codes: KErrCACorruptContent and KErrCACorruptRights.

API documentation has been updated for the majority of APIs and SPIs to reflect changes.

ContentAccess::CData objects can now be constructed without a CContent object

ContentAccess::CContent and ContentAccess::CData objects can now be created by supplying a URI or by passing an open RFile handle

ContentAccess::CContent now allows applications to browse the contents of files containing more than one content object, see Listing objects within a container

ContentAccess::CData now allows applications to read a particular content object within a file, see Reading data from a content object

The concept of a virtual path has been introduced to identify content within a file, see Identifying a content object within a file

Added new attribute functions to ContentAccess::CContent and ContentAccess::CManager to query attributes related to a virtual path

Added ContentAccess::RAttributeSet and ContentAccess::RStringAttributeSet to allow several attributes to be queried in one function call

File management functions similar to RFs added to ContentAccess::CManager.

Agent management functions added to ContentAccess::CManager so applications can configure or query a particular agent

Event Notification functions added to ContentAccess::CContent and ContentAccess::CManager. The events currently relate to changes in the rights status of a content object.

Agent specific commands supported in ContentAccess::CContent and ContentAccess::CManager.

ContentAccess::CSupplier and ContentAccess::CImportFile now allow the client to supply output file handles for the agent to write to. See ContentAccess::CImportFile::ContinueWithNewOutputFile().

ContentAccess::CContent, ContentAccess::CData and ContentAccess::CImportFile now use less memory

ContentAccess::CAgentConsumer has been renamed to ContentAccess::CAgentData

ContentAccess::CAgentSupplier has been renamed to ContentAccess::CAgentImportFile

ContentAccess::CAgentRightsManager added to the agent interface

Added ContentAccess::CContentIterator to simplify discovery of content objects

Added template class ContentAccess::RStreamablePtrArray that simplifies the task of transferring arrays across the client server boundary.

Agents will implement the user interface. Applications can request to suppress the agent UI using the SetProperty() function (e.g. ContentAccess::CContent::SetProperty()). See CAF and the User Interface

KDefaultContentObject string introduced to identify that the client wants to open the default content object within the file. The default is used automatically if no UniqueId is specified. If the client specifies the UniqueId KNullDesC16(), the file will be opened in exactly the same way as an RFile, no translation will occur.

ContentAccess::CData::SetQosL() renamed to ContentAccess::CData::SetProperty(). Allows it to apply to other aspects of an agent without causing confusion

Removed const from ContentAccess::CData::Read() and ContentAccess::CData::Seek() functions so agents can maintain an internal state if necessary

Allow applications to include all of CAF by just doing #include <caf/caf.h>

Agent server private directories are mapped from \private\SID\ to \private\agentname\.

Deprecated the ContentAccess::CAttribute class since it did not work well with multiple content object files

Deprecated ContentAccess::CCafMimeHeader and ContentAccess::CMimeFieldAndData, replaced with more generic ContentAccess::CMetaDataArray and ContentAccess::CMetaData

Deprecated ContentAccess::TMimeFields, not needed by new APIs

Deprecated ContentAccess::CBitset class, no longer required when retrieving attributes with new APIs

Deprecated ContentAccess::TCAFUtilsPanics used by ContentAccess::CBitset

Deprecated void CData::SetQosL(TQosAttribute aQosAttr, TInt aValue) (see ContentAccess::CData::SetQosL()), replaced by ContentAccess::CData::SetProperty().

Deprecated ContentAccess::TQosAttribute, replaced by ContentAccess::TAgentProperty

Deprecated CAttribute* CContent::NewAttributeL(TBool aPreloaded) (see ContentAccess::CContent::NewAttributeL()).

Deprecated CAttribute* CContent::NewAttributeL(TBool aPreloaded, TContentShareMode aShareMode) (see ContentAccess::CContent::NewAttributeL()).

Deprecated ContentAccess::CContent::OpenContentL(TIntent, TContentShareMode) function (see ContentAccess::CContent::OpenContentL()). The ContentAccess::TContentShareMode is now on the ContentAccess::CContent::NewL().

Deprecated TBool CData::GetMimeTypeL(TDes8& aMimeType) const; (see ContentAccess::CData::GetMimeTypeL()), can now retrieve this from string attributes.

Deprecated static void CManager::DeleteFileL (const TDesC &aFileName); (see ContentAccess::CManager::DeleteFileL()), replaced with non leaving function ContentAccess::CManager::DeleteFile().

Deprecated CImportFile * CSupplier::ImportFileL (CCafMimeHeader &aMimeHeader, const TDesC &aSuggestedFileName); (see ContentAccess::CSupplier::ImportFileL()), replaced with function that takes a ContentAccess::CMetaDataArray.

Deprecated CAttribute & CSupplierOutputFile::AttributesL(TBool aPreloaded); (see ContentAccess::CSupplierOutputFile::AttributesL()) since ContentAccess::CAttribute is deprecated.