Copy the KDE 3.5 branch to branches/trinity for new KDE 3.5 features.

BUG:215923


git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/trinity/kdelibs@1054174 283d02a7-25f6-0310-bc7c-ecb5cbfe19da

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+/*
+    This file is part of libkabc.
+    Copyright (c) 2002 Tobias Koenig <[email protected]>
+
+    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 KABC_FORMATFACTORY_H
+#define KABC_FORMATFACTORY_H
+
+#include <qdict.h>
+#include <qstring.h>
+
+#include <kconfig.h>
+#include <klibloader.h>
+
+#include "formatplugin.h"
+
+namespace KABC {
+
+struct FormatInfo
+{
+  QString library;
+  QString nameLabel;
+  QString descriptionLabel;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Class for loading format plugins.
+ *
+ * Example:
+ *
+ * \code
+ * KABC::FormatFactory *factory = KABC::FormatFactory::self();
+ *
+ * QStringList list = factory->formats();
+ * QStringList::Iterator it;
+ * for ( it = list.begin(); it != list.end(); ++it ) {
+ *   KABC::FormatPlugin *format = factory->format( (*it) );
+ *   // do something with format
+ * }
+ * \endcode
+ */
+class KABC_EXPORT FormatFactory
+{
+  public:
+    
+    /**
+      Destructor.
+     */
+    ~FormatFactory();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the global format factory.
+     */
+    static FormatFactory *self();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a pointer to a format object or a null pointer
+     * if format type doesn't exist.
+     *
+     * @param type   The type of the format, returned by formats()
+     */
+    FormatPlugin *format( const QString &type );
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a list of all available format types.
+     */
+    QStringList formats();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the info structure for a special type.
+     */
+    FormatInfo *info( const QString &type );
+
+  protected:
+    FormatFactory();
+
+  private:
+    KLibrary *openLibrary( const QString& libName );
+
+    static FormatFactory *mSelf;
+
+    QDict<FormatInfo> mFormatList;
+};
+
+}
+#endif