kde-playground/kdepimlibs/syndication/abstractparser.h
Ivailo Monev a9b00154bc generic: replace forward class declarations with header inclusions
Signed-off-by: Ivailo Monev <xakepa10@laimg.moc>
2019-07-31 18:05:48 +00:00

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/*
* This file is part of the syndication library
*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Frank Osterfeld <osterfeld@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 SYNDICATION_ABSTRACTPARSER_H
#define SYNDICATION_ABSTRACTPARSER_H
#include <syndication/specificdocument.h>
#include "ksyndication_export.h"
#include <QString>
namespace Syndication {
class DocumentSource;
/**
* Interface for all parsers. The parsers for the various formats must
* implement this interface and register themselves at the ParserRegistry.
*
* @author Frank Osterfeld
*/
class SYNDICATION_EXPORT AbstractParser
{
public:
/**
* virtual destructor
*/
virtual ~AbstractParser();
/**
* Lets the parser check if it can parse the passed source.
* Parser implementations should do a _quick_ check for the file
* format (i.e. check for feed format and version number in the root
* element) to find out if the source is in a supported format. They
* should _not_ completely parse the document to test for full
* compliance to the format specification.
*
* @param source the document source to be checked
* @return whether @c source seems to be in a format supported by the
* parser
*/
virtual bool accept(const DocumentSource& source) const = 0;
/**
* Lets the parser parse a document source. The parser returns a
* valid document instance if successful, or an invalid one if
* not.
*
* @see SpecificDocument::isValid()
* @param source The document source to be parsed
* @return a newly created document parsed from @c source
*/
virtual SpecificDocumentPtr parse(const DocumentSource& source) const = 0;
/**
* Returns the name of the format supported by this
* parser.
*
* @return a string like "rss2", "atom" or "rdf"
*/
virtual QString format() const = 0;
};
} // namespace Syndication
#endif // SYNDICATION_ABSTRACTPARSER_H