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+/* === This file is part of Tomahawk Player - <http://tomahawk-player.org> ===
+ *
+ *   Copyright 2010-2011, Christian Muehlhaeuser <muesli@tomahawk-player.org>
+ *
+ *   Tomahawk is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *   (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *   Tomahawk 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 General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *   along with Tomahawk. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef ACCOUNT_H
+#define ACCOUNT_H
+
+#include <QtCore/QObject>
+#include <QtCore/QVariantMap>
+#include <QtGui/QWidget>
+
+#include "typedefs.h"
+#include "dllmacro.h"
+#include "infosystem/infosystem.h"
+#include "sip/SipPlugin.h"
+
+namespace Tomahawk
+{
+
+class DLLEXPORT Account
+{
+
+    typedef QMap< QString, bool > ACLMap;
+    
+public:
+    enum AccountTypes { InfoType, SipType };
+
+    explicit Account();
+    virtual ~Account();
+
+    QString accountServiceName(); // e.g. "Twitter", "Last.fm"
+    void setAccountServiceName( const QString &serviceName );
+
+    QString accountFriendlyName(); // e.g. screen name on the service, JID, etc.
+    void setAccountFriendlyName( const QString &friendlyName );
+    
+    bool autoConnect();
+    void setAutoConnect( bool autoConnect );
+    
+    QStringMap credentials();
+    void setCredentials( const QStringMap &credentialMap );
+    
+    QVariantMap configuration();
+    void setConfiguration( const QVariantMap &configuration );
+    QWidget* configurationWidget();
+
+    ACLMap acl();
+    void setAcl( const ACLMap &acl );
+    QWidget* aclWidget();
+
+    QSet< AccountTypes > types();
+    void setTypes( const QSet< AccountTypes > types );
+
+    Tomahawk::InfoSystem::InfoPlugin* infoPlugin();
+    SipPlugin* sipPlugin();
+};
+
+};
+
+#endif // ACCOUNT_H