QGIS/python/server/qgsserverinterface.sip

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                          qgsserverinterface.sip

  Class defining the interface made available to server plugins.
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  begin                : 2014-09-10
  copyright            : (C) 2014 by Alessandro Pasotti
  email                : a dot pasotti at itopen dot it
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 *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
 *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
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/**
 * \class QgsServerInterface
 * \brief Class defining the interface made available to server plugins.
 *
 * This class provides methods to access the request handler and
 * the capabilties cache. A method to read the environment
 * variables set in the main FCGI loop is also available.
 * Plugins can add listeners (instances of QgsServerFilter) with
 * a certain priority through the registerFilter( QgsServerFilter* , int) method.
 */


typedef QMultiMap<int, QgsServerFilter*> QgsServerFiltersMap;

class QgsServerInterface
{
%TypeHeaderCode
  #include "qgsserverinterface.h"
%End

  public:
    /**Returns the current request handler*/
    virtual QgsRequestHandler* requestHandler( ) = 0 /KeepReference/;
    /**Returns the capabilities cache*/
    virtual QgsCapabilitiesCache* capabiblitiesCache() = 0 /KeepReference/;
    // Tansfer ownership to avoid garbage collector to call dtor
    /** Register a filter with the given priority. The filter's requestReady()
     * and responseReady() methods will be called from the loop*/
    virtual void registerFilter( QgsServerFilter* filter /Transfer/, int priority = 0 ) = 0;
    /**Return an environment variable set by FCGI*/
    virtual QString getEnv(const QString& name ) const = 0;
    // Commented because of problems with typedef QgsServerFiltersMap, provided
    // methods to alter the filters map into QgsRequestHandler API
    // virtual QgsServerFiltersMap filters( ) = 0;

private:
    /** Constructor */
    QgsServerInterface( );

};