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/*
Gwenview: an image viewer
Copyright 2008 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau@free.fr>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program 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 General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Cambridge, MA 02110-1301, USA.

*/
#ifndef ABSTRACTSEMANTICINFOBACKEND_H
#define ABSTRACTSEMANTICINFOBACKEND_H

#include <lib/gwenviewlib_export.h>

// Qt
#include <QObject>
#include <QSet>

// KDE

// Local

class KUrl;

namespace Gwenview {


typedef QString SemanticInfoTag;


/**
 * This class represents the set of tags associated to an url.
 *
 * It provides convenience methods to convert to and from QVariant, which are
 * useful to communicate with SemanticInfoDirModel.
 */
class GWENVIEWLIB_EXPORT TagSet : public QSet<SemanticInfoTag> {
public:
	TagSet();
	TagSet(const QSet<SemanticInfoTag>&);

	QVariant toVariant() const;
	static TagSet fromVariant(const QVariant&);
};


/**
 * A POD struct used by AbstractSemanticInfoBackEnd to store the metadata
 * associated to an url.
 */
struct SemanticInfo {
	int mRating;
	QString mDescription;
	TagSet mTags;
};


/**
 * An abstract class, used by SemanticInfoDirModel to store and retrieve metadata.
 */
class AbstractSemanticInfoBackEnd : public QObject {
	Q_OBJECT
public:
	AbstractSemanticInfoBackEnd(QObject* parent);

	virtual TagSet allTags() const = 0;

	virtual void refreshAllTags() = 0;

	virtual void storeSemanticInfo(const KUrl&, const SemanticInfo&) = 0;

	virtual void retrieveSemanticInfo(const KUrl&) = 0;

	virtual QString labelForTag(const SemanticInfoTag&) const = 0;

	/**
	 * Return a tag for a label. Will emit tagAdded() if the tag had to be
	 * created.
	 */
	virtual SemanticInfoTag tagForLabel(const QString&) = 0;

Q_SIGNALS:
	void semanticInfoRetrieved(const KUrl&, const SemanticInfo&);

	/**
	 * Emitted whenever a new tag is added to allTags()
	 */
	void tagAdded(const SemanticInfoTag&, const QString& label);
};


} // namespace

#endif /* ABSTRACTSEMANTICINFOBACKEND_H */
