documentvisitor.h

/*
    This file is part of the syndication library
    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 Frank Osterfeld <osterfeld@kde.org>
 
    SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.0-or-later
*/
 
#ifndef SYNDICATION_DOCUMENTVISITOR_H
#define SYNDICATION_DOCUMENTVISITOR_H
 
#include "syndication_export.h"
 
namespace Syndication
{
class SpecificDocument;
 
namespace Atom
{
class EntryDocument;
class FeedDocument;
}
 
namespace RDF
{
class Document;
}
 
namespace RSS2
{
class Document;
}
 
/**
 * Visitor interface, following the Visitor design pattern. Use this if you
 * want to process documents and the way how to handle the document depends
 * on it's concrete type (e.g. RSS2::Document, RDF::Document...).
 *
 * TODO: insert code example
 *
 * @author Frank Osterfeld
 */
class SYNDICATION_EXPORT DocumentVisitor // krazy:exclude=dpointer
{
public:
    /**
     * destructor
     */
    virtual ~DocumentVisitor();
 
    /**
     * call this method to handle a document. Depending on the concrete type
     * of the document, a specialized visit method is called.
     *
     * @param document the document to process
     * @return whether this visitor handles the type of the document.
     */
    virtual bool visit(SpecificDocument *document);
 
    /**
     * reimplement this method to handle RSS2-like (RSS 0.9x, 2.0) documents.
     *
     * @param document the RSS2 document to visit
     * @return whether the visitor handled the document.
     * Reimplementations of this method must return @c true.
     */
    virtual bool visitRSS2Document(Syndication::RSS2::Document *document);
 
    /**
     * reimplement this method to handle RDF (i.e. RSS 1.0) documents.
     *
     * @param document the RDF document to visit
     * @return whether the visitor handled the document.
     * Reimplementations of this method must return @c true.
     */
    virtual bool visitRDFDocument(Syndication::RDF::Document *document);
 
    /**
     * reimplement this method to handle Atom feed documents (most Atom
     * feeds are of this type).
     *
     * @param document the atom feed document to visit
     * @return whether the visitor handled the document.
     * Reimplementations of this method must return @c true.
     */
    virtual bool visitAtomFeedDocument(Syndication::Atom::FeedDocument *document);
 
    /**
     * reimplement this method to handle Atom entry documents.
     *
     * @param document the atom entry document to visit
     * @return whether the visitor handled the document.
     * Reimplementations of this method must return @c true.
     */
    virtual bool visitAtomEntryDocument(Syndication::Atom::EntryDocument *document);
};
 
} // namespace Syndication
 
#endif // SYNDICATION_DOCUMENTVISITOR_H