/*
    This file is part of oxaccess.

    Copyright (c) 2009 Tobias Koenig <tokoe@kde.org>

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 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 Library General Public
    License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
    along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to the
    Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
    02110-1301, USA.
*/

#ifndef OXA_OBJECTUTILS_H
#define OXA_OBJECTUTILS_H

#include "folder.h"
#include "object.h"

class KJob;

#include <QDomDocument>
#include <QDomElement>

namespace OXA {

namespace ObjectUtils
{
  Object parseObject( const QDomElement &propElement, Folder::Module module );
  void addObjectElements( QDomDocument &document, QDomElement &propElement, const Object &object, void *preloadedData = 0 );

  /**
   * Returns the dav path that is used for the given @p module.
   */
  QString davPath( Folder::Module module );

  /**
   * On some actions (e.g. creating or modifiying items) we have to preload
   * data asynchronously. The following methods allow to do that in a generic way.
   */

  /**
   * Checks whether the @p object needs preloading of data.
   */
  bool needsPreloading( const Object &object );

  /**
   * Creates a preloading job for the @p object.
   */
  KJob* preloadJob( const Object &object );

  /**
   * Converts the data loaded by the preloading @p job into pointer
   * that will be passed to addObjectElements later on.
   */
  void* preloadData( const Object &object, KJob *job );
}

}

#endif