[Kde-silk] [Draft]PictureProvider DataEngine

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday 16 October 2009 01:16:15 Onur - Hayri Bakici wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i started to plan the pictureprovider DataEngine class.
> since flickr has a complete different api-structure than picasa i had the
>  idea to make two packages: PicturePackage and AlbumPackage.
> The reason: with picasa, every picture is in at least one album. so if we
>  are searching for pictures in picasa, we also get information in which
>  album they belong. In flickr it is not that way. pictures in flickr do not
>  necessarily belong to an album. Also, in flickr, to get the whole
>  information about a picture, we have to call another query. Nevertheless,
>  i think the
> picturePackage-struct should have an albumId.
> my idea of the packages:
> 
> 
> typedef struct {
>     QString id;
>     QDate published;
>     QDate updated;
>     QString title;
>     QString link;
>     uint width;
>     uint height;
>     uint size; //necessary?
>     QString thumbnail;
>     QStringList tags;
> } PicturePackage;
> 
> typedef struct {
>     QString id;
>     QString title;
>     QString author;
>     QList<PicturePackage*> photos;
> } AlbumPackage;
> 
> 
> In the picasa DataEngine (picasainterface.cpp) is a method listAllAlbums.
>  in this case the AlbumPackage can be used? What do you think?
> 
> I did some research and i found some other Image Host sites such as
>  imageShack, Fotolog, CrunchBase and photoBucket. Of course i bumped into
>  some limits: 
> * ImageShack has (at first sight) no fuction call to search
>  for pictures, only to upload and manipulate images and albums. 
> * FotoLog
>  can (as far as i know) only be accessed as a facebook app 
>  * Crunchbase's
>  response method is only in JSON
> 
> Photobucket responses in xml, like flickr and picasa.
> So anyways, about the queries.
> sice some image Host sites also provide videos, i suggest to make the
>  queries like in the videoProvider query.

That makes sense (sorry for taking a couple of days to reply).
-- 
sebas

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