policy_manager/policy.h

// Copyright (c) 2014 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#ifndef CHROMEOS_PLATFORM_UPDATE_ENGINE_POLICY_MANAGER_POLICY_H
#define CHROMEOS_PLATFORM_UPDATE_ENGINE_POLICY_MANAGER_POLICY_H

#include "update_engine/policy_manager/evaluation_context.h"

namespace chromeos_policy_manager {

// The three different results of a policy request.
enum EvalStatus {
  EvalStatusFailed,
  EvalStatusSucceeded,
  EvalStatusAskMeAgainLater,
};

// The Policy class is an interface to the ensemble of policy requests that the
// client can make. A derived class includes the policy implementations of
// these.
//
// When compile-time selection of the policy is required due to missing or extra
// parts in a given platform, a different Policy subclass can be used.
class Policy {
 public:
  virtual ~Policy() {}

  // List of policy requests. A policy request takes an EvaluationContext as the
  // first argument, a returned error message, a returned value and optionally
  // followed by one or more arbitrary constant arguments.
  //
  // When the implementation fails, the method returns EvalStatusFailed and sets
  // the |error| string.

  // UpdateCheckAllowed returns whether it is allowed to request an update check
  // to Omaha.
  virtual EvalStatus UpdateCheckAllowed(EvaluationContext* ec,
                                        std::string* error,
                                        bool* result) const = 0;

 protected:
  Policy() {}

 private:
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Policy);
};

}  // namespace chromeos_policy_manager

#endif  // CHROMEOS_PLATFORM_UPDATE_ENGINE_POLICY_MANAGER_POLICY_H