/*  -*- mode: C++; c-file-style: "gnu" -*-
    bodypartformatter.h

    This file is part of KMail's plugin interface.
    Copyright (c) 2004 Marc Mutz <mutz@kde.org>,
                       Ingo Kloecker <kloecker@kde.org>

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*/

#ifndef __KMAIL_INTERFACE_BODYPARTFORMATTER_H__
#define __KMAIL_INTERFACE_BODYPARTFORMATTER_H__

namespace MessageViewer {

  class HtmlWriter;

namespace Interface {

  class BodyPart;
  class BodyPartURLHandler;

  class BodyPartFormatter {
  public:
    virtual ~BodyPartFormatter() {}

    /**
  @li Ok returned when format() generated some HTML
  @li NeedContent returned when format() needs the body of the part
  @li AsIcon returned when the part should be shown iconified
  @li Failed returned when formatting failed. Currently equivalent to Ok
    */
    enum Result { Ok, NeedContent, AsIcon, Failed };

    /**
  Format body part \a part by generating some HTML and writing
  that to \a writer.

  @return the result code (see above)
    */
    virtual Result format( BodyPart * part, HtmlWriter * writer ) const = 0;
  };

  /**
      @short interface for BodyPartFormatter plugins

      The interface is queried by for types, subtypes, and the
      corresponding bodypart formatter, and the result inserted into
      the bodypart formatter factory.

      Subtype alone or both type and subtype may be "*", which is
      taken as a wildcard, so that e.g. type=text subtype=* matches
      any text subtype, but with lesser specificity than a concrete
      mimetype such as text/plain. type=* is only allowed when
      subtype=*, too.
  */
  class BodyPartFormatterPlugin {
  public:
    virtual ~BodyPartFormatterPlugin() {}

    virtual const BodyPartFormatter * bodyPartFormatter( int idx ) const = 0;
    virtual const char * type( int idx ) const = 0;
    virtual const char * subtype( int idx ) const = 0;

    virtual const BodyPartURLHandler * urlHandler( int idx ) const = 0;
  };

} // namespace Interface

}
#endif // __KMAIL_INTERFACE_BODYPARTFORMATTER_H__
