New framework: KF5Syndication

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 11:02:31 PM Frank Osterfeld wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > KF5Syndication is an RSS/Atom parsing library. It also provides API to
>> > fetch feeds directly from network.
>> >
>> > It's a Tier 3 Framework (depends on KCodecs and KIO). AFAIK it's currently
>> > being used only by Akregator.
>>
>> The Akonadi RSS resources (still lingering in some work branch, I assume?)
>> and some plasmoids were also using it.
>>
>> As for the dependencies: The KIO dependency is used only by a single class,
>> “DataRetriever”, which is a rather thin wrapper around KIO::get to download
>> the feed file. The actual parser only requires KCodecs from KF. So I wonder
>> if it would make sense to either drop the retriever classes completely,
>> split them into another library (too tiny I guess), or make them optional
>> in the build.
>
> If KIO is really needed only to fetch the feeds then I would say we can drop
> it. If Akregator ever gets ported to Akonadi :), then the retrieval will be
> handled by the resource and other applications using Syndication will probably
> prefer their own retrieval methods and can always fall back to just calling
> KIO::get themselves.
>
> Dan
>
>>
>> Frank
>
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As a hint, for KDE Connect what I'm working on is to use
KIO::AccessManager so in practice the framework only depends on
QtNetwork (QNetworkAccessManager) and then a hook is provided to feed
the KIO implementation.
This is also what QtWebKit does.

HTH,
Aleix