CTK/Libs/CommandLineModules/Backend/XMLChecker/ctkCmdLineModuleBackendXMLChecker.h

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#ifndef CTKCMDLINEMODULEBACKENDXMLCHECKER_H
#define CTKCMDLINEMODULEBACKENDXMLCHECKER_H

#include "ctkCmdLineModuleBackend.h"

#include "ctkCommandLineModulesBackendXMLCheckerExport.h"

#include <QScopedPointer>

struct ctkCmdLineModuleBackendXMLCheckerPrivate;

/**
 * @ingroup CommandLineModulesBackendXMLChecker_API
 *
 * @brief Provides a ctkCmdLineModuleBackend implementation
 * to pretend to run a command line process, but actually
 * it returns a fixed, static piece of XML which can then
 * be validated by the core library.
 */
class CTK_CMDLINEMODULEBACKENDXMLCHECKER_EXPORT ctkCmdLineModuleBackendXMLChecker : public ctkCmdLineModuleBackend
{

public:

  ctkCmdLineModuleBackendXMLChecker();
  ctkCmdLineModuleBackendXMLChecker(const QString &xmlToValidate);
  ~ctkCmdLineModuleBackendXMLChecker();

  virtual QString name() const;
  virtual QString description() const;

  /**
   * @brief This back-end can handle the "xml checker" URL scheme.
   * @return Returns the schemes this back-end can handle.
   */
  virtual QList<QString> schemes() const;

  /**
   * @brief Returns the last modified time of the module at \c location.
   * @param location The location URL of the module for which to get the timestamp.
   * @return A timestamp.
   */
  virtual qint64 timeStamp(const QUrl &location) const;

  /**
   * @brief Get the raw XML description from the module at \c location.
   * @param location The location URL of the module for which to get the XML description.
   * @return The raw XML description.
   *
   * This method always calls the executable with a \c &ndash;&ndash;xml argument and returns
   * the complete data emitted on the standard output channel.
   */
  virtual QByteArray rawXmlDescription(const QUrl& location);

  /**
   * @brief Run a front-end for this module in a local process.
   * @param frontend The front-end to run.
   * @return A future object for communicating with the running process.
   */
  virtual ctkCmdLineModuleFuture run(ctkCmdLineModuleFrontend *frontend);

  void setXML(const QString& xml);
  QString xml() const;

private:

  QScopedPointer<ctkCmdLineModuleBackendXMLCheckerPrivate> d;

};

#endif // CTKCMDLINEMODULEBACKENDLOCALPROCESS_H