/***************************************************************************
  qgsoptionalexpression.h - QgsOptionalExpression

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 begin                : 8.9.2016
 copyright            : (C) 2016 by Matthias Kuhn
 email                : matthias@opengis.ch
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 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
 *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
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#ifndef QGSOPTIONALEXPRESSION_H
#define QGSOPTIONALEXPRESSION_H

#include "qgsoptional.h"
#include "qgsexpression.h"

#include "qgis_core.h"


/**
 * \ingroup core
 *
 * \brief An expression with an additional enabled flag.
 *
 * This can be used for configuration options where an expression can be enabled
 * or disabled but when disabled it shouldn't lose it's information for the case
 * it gets re-enabled later on and a user shouldn't be force to redo the configuration.
 *
 */



class CORE_EXPORT QgsOptionalExpression : public QgsOptional<QgsExpression>
{
  public:

    /**
     * Construct a default optional expression.
     * It will be disabled and with an empty expression.
     */
    QgsOptionalExpression() = default;

    /**
     * Construct an optional expression with the provided expression.
     * It will be enabled.
     */
    QgsOptionalExpression( const QgsExpression &expression );

    /**
     * Construct an optional expression with the provided expression and enabled state.
     */
    QgsOptionalExpression( const QgsExpression &expression, bool enabled );


    /**
     * Save the optional expression to the provided QDomElement.
     *
     * The caller is responsible to pass an empty QDomElement and to append it to
     * a parent element.
     *
     */
    void writeXml( QDomElement &element ) const;

    /**
     * Read the optional expression from the provided QDomElement.
     *
     */
    void readXml( const QDomElement &element );
};


#if defined(_MSC_VER)
#ifndef SIP_RUN
template class CORE_EXPORT QgsOptional<QgsExpression>;
#endif
#endif


#endif // QGSOPTIONALEXPRESSION_H
