[Kde-silk] [Draft]PictureProvider DataEngine

[Alessandro Diaferia]

2009/10/16 Onur - Hayri Bakici <thehayro at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
> greetz
>
> greetz
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Sorry for my sporadic phantoms people... I just wanted to know what's the
status of this dataengine. As sebas said the idea makes sense but has the
dataengine been written right now?

Cheers
-- 
Alessandro Diaferia
KDE Developer
KDE e.V. member
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