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/*
 * This file is part of TelepathyQt
 *
 * @copyright Copyright (C) 2012 Collabora Ltd. <http://www.collabora.co.uk/>
 * @copyright Copyright (C) 2012 Nokia Corporation
 * @license LGPL 2.1
 *
 * 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) any later version.
 *
 * 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, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
 */

/**
 * \page callbacks Callbacks Usage
 *
 * \section callbacks_overview Overview
 *
 * Callbacks are used in Telepathy-Qt by the service side high-level APIs
 * to expose methods that may/should be overriden in implementations.
 *
 * Ideally we would use virtual methods for this, but as new methods
 * can be added freely (when interfaces change), we would not be able
 * to guarantee a stable API/ABI. Other options, such as virtual padding,
 * virtual_hook and Qt slots also have their own drawbacks.
 *
 * There are 8 Callback classes, Tp::Callback0 to Tp::Callback7, which
 * define a callback with 0 to 7 arguments respectively. The first template
 * argument is always the return value type and the rest template arguments
 * are the types of the callback arguments in the order that they are passed
 * to the callback.
 *
 * Callback classes can be constructed from a functor. To make it easy to
 * use function pointers as functors, Telepathy-Qt also provides two helper
 * functions, Tp::memFun and Tp::ptrFun.
 *
 * Here is an example of their usage:
 * \code
 * // assuming a member function QString MyImpl::myFunc(const QString & s, int i);
 * Tp::Callback2<QString, const QString &, int> cb = Tp::memFun(myObj, &MyImpl::myFunc);
 *
 * // assuming a non-member or static member function QString myFunc(const QString & s, int i);
 * Tp::Callback2<QString, const QString &, int> cb = Tp::ptrFun(&myFunc);
 *
 * // assuming Tp::BaseConnectionPtr MyProtocolImpl::createConnection(const QVariantMap &parameters, DBusError *error);
 * myBaseProtocol->setCreateConnectionCallback(Tp::memFun(myProtocolImpl, &MyProtocolImpl::createConnection));
 * \endcode
 *
 * You are also free to use any other mechanism for constructing functors,
 * such as boost::bind, C++11's <functional> module or even C++11 lambda functions.
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::BaseCallback
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Base class for all the callback classes
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \fn bool Tp::BaseCallback::isValid() const
 *
 * Return whether this callback object has a valid functor assigned to it
 * or if it's a default-constructed dummy callback object.
 *
 * \return \c false if this is a default-constructed callback or
 * \c true if this callback was constructed from a functor.
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback0
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 0 arguments
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback1
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 1 argument
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback2
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 2 arguments
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback3
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 3 arguments
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback4
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 4 arguments
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback5
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 5 arguments
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback6
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 6 arguments
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */

/**
 * \class Tp::Callback7
 * \ingroup utils
 * \headerfile TelepathyQt/callbacks.h <TelepathyQt/Callbacks>
 *
 * \brief Callback with 7 arguments
 *
 * See \ref callbacks
 */