kdelibs/kio/kfile/kfilemetadatareader_p.h

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#ifndef KFILEMETADATAREADER_H
#define KFILEMETADATAREADER_H
#include <kurl.h>
#include <QtCore/QHash>
#include <QtCore/QList>
#include <QtCore/QObject>
#include <QtCore/QProcess>
#include <QtCore/QString>
/**
* @brief Provides metadata extracted from files.
*
* The reading of the metadata is done asynchronously in a process.
* This assures that the caller won't get blocked and also prevents
* that the caller crashes in case if a metadata-analyzer plugin is instable.
*
* @since 4.7
* @internal
*/
class KFileMetaDataReader : public QObject
{
Q_OBJECT
public:
/**
* @param urls List of files where the metadata should be extracted from.
* @param parent Parent object.
*/
explicit KFileMetaDataReader(const QList<KUrl>& urls, QObject* parent = 0);
virtual ~KFileMetaDataReader();
/**
* If \p read is set to true also metadata that is persisted outside the
* files itself (like e.g. rating, comments or tags) are read. Per
* default the reading of context data is enabled. Pass false if only the metadata
* persisted inside the file should be read.
*/
void setReadContextData(bool read);
bool readContextData() const;
/**
* Starts the reading of the metadata inside a custom process.
* The signal finished() will get emitted if the reading has been finished.
* Use metaData() to access the read metadata.
*/
void start();
/**
* @return The read metadata of the given files. The method provides valid values
* after the signal finished() has been emitted. If it is invoked before
* an empty hash-table will be returned.
*/
QHash<KUrl, QVariant> metaData() const;
Q_SIGNALS:
/**
* Is emitted if the reading of the metadata inside a custom process has been finished.
* The method metaData() can be used afterwards to access the metadata.
*/
void finished();
private:
class Private;
Private* d;
Q_PRIVATE_SLOT(d, void slotLoadingFinished(int, QProcess::ExitStatus))
};
#endif