Syndication::Item Class Reference

#include <item.h>

Public Member Functions
virtual	~Item ()
virtual QMultiMap< QString, QDomElement >	additionalProperties () const =0
virtual QList< PersonPtr >	authors () const =0
virtual QList< CategoryPtr >	categories () const =0
virtual QString	commentPostUri () const =0
virtual int	commentsCount () const =0
virtual QString	commentsFeed () const =0
virtual QString	commentsLink () const =0
virtual QString	content () const =0
virtual time_t	datePublished () const =0
virtual time_t	dateUpdated () const =0
virtual QString	debugInfo () const
virtual QString	description () const =0
virtual QList< EnclosurePtr >	enclosures () const =0
virtual QString	id () const =0
virtual QString	language () const =0
virtual QString	link () const =0
virtual SpecificItemPtr	specificItem () const =0
virtual QString	title () const =0

Detailed Description

An item from a news feed.

Author

Frank Osterfeld

Definition at line 57 of file item.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Syndication::Item::~Item ( )

virtual

destructor

Definition at line 34 of file item.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

virtual QMultiMap<QString, QDomElement> Syndication::Item::additionalProperties ( ) const

pure virtual

returns a list of item metadata not covered by this class.

Can be used e.g. to access format extensions.

The returned map contains key value pairs, where the key is the tag name of the element, namespace prefix are resolved to the corresponding URIs. The value is the XML element as read from the document.

For example, to access the <itunes:keywords> element, use additionalProperties()["http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtdkeywords"].

Currently this is only supported for RSS 0.91..0.94/2.0 and Atom formats, but not for RDF (RSS 0.9 and 1.0).

virtual QList<PersonPtr> Syndication::Item::authors ( ) const

pure virtual

returns a list of persons who created the item content.

If there is a distinction between authors and contributors (Atom), both are added to the list, where authors are added first.

Returns

list of authors (and possibly other contributing persons)

virtual QList<CategoryPtr> Syndication::Item::categories ( ) const

pure virtual

returns a list of categories this item is filed in.

See Category for more information on categories.

Returns

a list of categories

virtual QString Syndication::Item::commentPostUri ( ) const

pure virtual

URI that can be used to post comments via an HTTP POST request using the Comment API.

For more details on the Comment API, see http://wellformedweb.org/story/9

Returns

URI for posting comments, or a null string if not set

virtual int Syndication::Item::commentsCount ( ) const

pure virtual

The number of comments posted for this item.

Returns

the number of comments associated to this item, or -1 if not specified

virtual QString Syndication::Item::commentsFeed ( ) const

pure virtual

URL of feed syndicating comments belonging to this item.

Returns

comments feed URL, or a null string if not set

virtual QString Syndication::Item::commentsLink ( ) const

pure virtual

Link to an HTML site which contains the comments belonging to this item.

Returns

URL to the comments page, or a null string if not set

virtual QString Syndication::Item::content ( ) const

pure virtual

returns the content of the item.

If provided, this is the most comprehensive text content available for this item. If it is empty, use description() (which might also contain complete article content).

This string may contain HTML markup. (Importantly, occurrences of the characters <,'
', '&', '\'' and '"' are escaped).

Returns

content string as HTML, or a null string if not set

virtual time_t Syndication::Item::datePublished ( ) const

pure virtual

returns the date when the item was initially published.

Returns

publication date, as seconds since epoch (Jan 1st 1970), or 0 (epoch) if not set

virtual time_t Syndication::Item::dateUpdated ( ) const

pure virtual

returns the date when the item was modified the last time.

If no such date is provided by the feed, this method returns the value of datePublished().

Returns

modification date, as seconds since epoch (Jan 1st 1970)

QString Syndication::Item::debugInfo ( ) const

virtual

returns a description of the item for debugging purposes

Returns

debug string

Definition at line 38 of file item.cpp.

virtual QString Syndication::Item::description ( ) const

pure virtual

returns the description of the item.

The description can either be a tag line, a short summary of the item content up to a complete article. If content() is non-empty, it

This string may contain HTML markup. (Importantly, occurrences of the characters <,'
', '&', '\'' and '"' are escaped).

Returns

the description as HTML, or a null string if not specified

virtual QList<EnclosurePtr> Syndication::Item::enclosures ( ) const

pure virtual

returns a list of enclosures describing files available on the net.

(often used for audio files, so-called "Podcasts").

Returns

a list of enclosures associated with this item

virtual QString Syndication::Item::id ( ) const

pure virtual

returns an identifier that identifies the item within its feed.

The ID must be unique within its feed. If no ID is provided by the feed source, a hash from title, description and content is returned. Generated hash IDs start with "hash:".

virtual QString Syndication::Item::language ( ) const

pure virtual

returns the language used in the item's content

Returns

TODO: tell about language codes and link them

virtual QString Syndication::Item::link ( ) const

pure virtual

returns a link to the (web) resource described by this item.

In most cases, this will be a website containing the full article associated with this item.

Returns

a URL, or a null string if not specified

virtual SpecificItemPtr Syndication::Item::specificItem ( ) const

pure virtual

returns the format-specific item this object abstracts from.

Use it if you need to access format-specifics that are not covered by this abstraction.

virtual QString Syndication::Item::title ( ) const

pure virtual

The title of the item.

This string may contain HTML markup.(Importantly, occurrences of the characters <,'
', '&', '\'' and '"' are escaped).

Returns

the title of the item as HTML, or a null string if not specified

---

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

• item.h
• item.cpp