AIW Service Handler API: API description

AIW Service Handler API offers the main access to the AIW framework functionality.

AIW Service Handler API is a library API. From the AIW consumer application point of view, it can be categorized as a method call API. AIW Service Handler API hides the complexity of resolving and calling the AIW providers, which are implemented as ECom plug-ins.

Use cases

The most important use cases of AIW Service Handler API are the following:

• Creating a Service Handler instance
• Attaching interests
  • Base services
  • Menu services
• Initializing menu pane
• Executing service commands
  • Base service commands
  • Menu service commands
• Deleting the Service Handler instance

API class structure

The main class of AIW Service Handler API is called CAiwServiceHandler. This class is the main entity of the AIW framework. Each AIW consumer application should create an instance of that class, which can then be used for attaching application's interest, initializing the AIW menu items, and executing the AIW service commands. The CAiwServiceHandler and some of its most important methods are illustrated in Figure 1: