Syndication::Category Class Reference

#include <category.h>

Inheritance diagram for Syndication::Category:

Public Member Functions
virtual	~Category ()
virtual QString	debugInfo () const
virtual bool	isNull () const =0
virtual QString	label () const =0
virtual QString	scheme () const =0
virtual QString	term () const =0

Detailed Description

A category for categorizing items or whole feeds.

A category can be an informal string set by the feed author ("General", "Stuff I like"), a tag assigned by readers, as known from flickr.com or de.licio.us ("KDE", "funny"), or a term from a formally defined ontology.

To represent the category in a user interface, use label() (or term() as fallback). To create a key for e.g. storage purposes, use scheme() + term().

Author

Frank Osterfeld

Definition at line 32 of file category.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

~Category()

Syndication::Category::~Category ( )

virtual

destructor

Definition at line 12 of file category.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

debugInfo()

QString Syndication::Category::debugInfo ( ) const

virtual

Description of the category for debugging purposes.

Returns

debug string

Definition at line 16 of file category.cpp.

isNull()

virtual bool Syndication::Category::isNull ( ) const

pure virtual

returns whether this object is a null category

Implemented in Syndication::CategoryAtomImpl, and Syndication::CategoryRSS2Impl.

label()

virtual QString Syndication::Category::label ( ) const

pure virtual

An optional human-readable label of the category.

If specified, this string should be used to represent this category in a user interface. If not specified, use term() instead. TODO: specify format (HTML, plain text?) and enforce it in the impl

Returns

the label of this category, or a null string if not specified

Implemented in Syndication::CategoryAtomImpl, and Syndication::CategoryRSS2Impl.

scheme()

virtual QString Syndication::Category::scheme ( ) const

pure virtual

An optional scheme the term is part of.

This can be some vocabulary/ontology such as Dublin Core. Think of it as the term's namespace, grouping a set of categories. When managing categories, scheme() + term() identifies a category unambiguously and can be used as key.

Returns

the scheme this category is part of, or a null string if not specified

Implemented in Syndication::CategoryAtomImpl, and Syndication::CategoryRSS2Impl.

term()

virtual QString Syndication::Category::term ( ) const

pure virtual

A term identifying the category, e.g.

"general", "life", "books" or "Basketball & other sport I like". The term must be unique in its scheme (see scheme()).

In user interfaces, use it only if there is no label() available. TODO: specify format (HTML, plain text?) and enforce it in the impl

Returns

category term. This string is never empty.

Implemented in Syndication::CategoryAtomImpl, and Syndication::CategoryRSS2Impl.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• category.h
• category.cpp