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/*
 * This file is part of the syndication library
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2006 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_TOOLS_H
#define SYNDICATION_TOOLS_H

#include <syndication/person.h>
#include "ksyndication_export.h"


#include <QtCore/QString>

#include <ctime>

class QByteArray;
class QString;

namespace Syndication {

/** date formats supported by date parsers */

enum DateFormat
{
    ISODate, /**< ISO 8601 extended format.
              * (date: "2003-12-13",datetime: "2003-12-13T18:30:02.25",
              * datetime with timezone: "2003-12-13T18:30:02.25+01:00")
              */
    RFCDate /**< RFC 822. (e.g. "Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT") */
};

/**
 * parses a date string in ISO 8601 extended format.
 * (date: "2003-12-13",datetime: "2003-12-13T18:30:02.25",
 * datetime with timezone: "2003-12-13T18:30:02.25+01:00")
 *
 * @param str a string in ISO 8601 format
 * @return parsed date in seconds since epoch, 0 if no date could
 * be parsed from the string.
 */
//KDE5: uint, not time_t
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
time_t parseISODate(const QString& str);

/**
 * parses a date string as defined in RFC 822.
 * (Sat, 07 Sep 2002 00:00:01 GMT)
 *
 * @param str a string in RFC 822 format
 * @return parsed date in seconds since epoch, 0 if no date could
 * be parsed from the string.
 */
//KDE5: uint, not time_t
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
time_t parseRFCDate(const QString& str);

/**
 * parses a date string in ISO (see parseISODate()) or RFC 822 (see
 * parseRFCDate()) format.
 * It tries both parsers and returns the first valid parsing result found (or 0
 * otherwise).
 * To speed up parsing, you can give a hint which format you expect.
 * The method will try the corresponding parser first then.
 *
 * @param str a date string
 * @param hint the expected format
 * @return parsed date in seconds since epoch, 0 if no date could
 * be parsed from the string.
 */
//KDE5: uint, not time_t
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
time_t parseDate(const QString& str, DateFormat hint=RFCDate);


/**
 * @internal
 * returns a string representation of a datetime.
 * this is used internally to create debugging output.
 *
 * @param date the date to convert
 * @return string representation of the date, or a null string if
 * @c date is 0
 */
//KDE5: uint, not time_t
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString dateTimeToString(time_t date);

/**
 * resolves entities to respective unicode chars.
 *
 * @param str a string
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString resolveEntities(const QString& str);

/**
 * replaces the characters &lt; >, &, ", '
 * with &amp;lt; &amp;gt; &amp;amp;, &amp;quot; &amp;apos;.
 * @param str the string to escape
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString escapeSpecialCharacters(const QString& str);

/**
 * replaces newlines ("\n") by &lt;br/>
 * @param str string to convert
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString convertNewlines(const QString& str);

/**
 * converts a plain text string to HTML
 *
 * @param plainText a string in plain text.
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString plainTextToHtml(const QString& plainText);

/**
 * converts a HTML string to plain text
 *
 * @param html string in HTML format
 * @return stripped text
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString htmlToPlainText(const QString& html);

/**
 * guesses whether a string contains plain text or HTML
 *
 * @param str the string in unknown format
 * @return @c true if the heuristic thinks it's HTML, @c false
 * if thinks it is plain text
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
bool isHtml(const QString& str);

/**
 * guesses whether a string contains (HTML) markup or not. This
 * implements not an exact check for valid HTML markup, but a
 * simple (and relatively fast) heuristic.
 *
 * @param str the string that might or might not contain markup
 * @return @c true if the heuristic thinks it contains markup, @c false
 * if thinks it is markup-free plain text
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
bool stringContainsMarkup(const QString& str);

/**
 * Ensures HTML formatting for a string.
 * guesses via isHtml() if @c str contains HTML or plain text, and returns
 * plainTextToHtml(str) if it thinks it is plain text, or the unmodified @c str
 * otherwise.
 *
 * @param str a string with unknown content
 * @return string as HTML (as long as the heuristics work)
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString normalize(const QString& str);

/**
 * normalizes a string based on feed-wide properties of tag content.
 * It is based on the assumption that all items in a feed encode their
 * title/description content in the same way (CDATA or not, plain text
 * vs. HTML). isCDATA and containsMarkup are determined once by the feed,
 * and then passed to this method.
 *
 * The returned string contains HTML, with special characters &lt;, >,
 * &, ", and ' escaped, and all other entities resolved.
 * Whitespace is collapsed, relevant whitespace is replaced by respective
 * HTML tags (&lt;br/>).
 *
 * @param str a string
 * @param isCDATA whether the feed uses CDATA for the tag @c str was read from
 * @param containsMarkup whether the feed uses HTML markup in the
 *        tag @c str was read from.
 * @return string as HTML (as long as the heuristics work)
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
QString normalize(const QString& str, bool isCDATA, bool containsMarkup);

/**
 * Parses a person object from a string by identifying name and email address
 * in the string. Currently detected variants are:
 * "foo@bar.com", "Foo", "Foo &lt;foo@bar.com>", "foo@bar.com (Foo)".
  *
 * @param str the string to parse the person from.
 * @return a Person object containing the parsed information.
 */
SYNDICATION_EXPORT
PersonPtr personFromString(const QString& str);

/**
 * @internal
 * calculates a hash value for a string
 */
unsigned int calcHash(const QString& str);

/**
 * @internal
 * calculates a hash value for a byte array
 */
unsigned int calcHash(const QByteArray& array);

/**
 * @internal
 * calculates a md5 checksum for a string
 */
QString calcMD5Sum(const QString& str);

//@cond PRIVATE
/**
 * @internal
 * used internally to represent element types
 */
struct ElementType
{
    ElementType(const QString& localnamep,
                const QString& nsp=QString()); // implicit

    bool operator==(const ElementType& other) const;

    QString ns;
    QString localname;
};
//@endcond

} // namespace Syndication

#endif // SYNDICATION_TOOLS_H