Rss-Bridge/lib/BridgeInterface.php

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<?php
2018-11-16 21:48:59 +01:00
/**
* This file is part of RSS-Bridge, a PHP project capable of generating RSS and
* Atom feeds for websites that don't have one.
*
* For the full license information, please view the UNLICENSE file distributed
* with this source code.
*
* @package Core
* @license http://unlicense.org/ UNLICENSE
* @link https://github.com/rss-bridge/rss-bridge
*/
/**
* The bridge interface
*
* A bridge is a class that is responsible for collecting and transforming data
* from one hosting provider into an internal representation of feed data, that
* can later be transformed into different feed formats (see {@see FormatInterface}).
*
* For this purpose, all bridges need to perform three common operations:
*
* 1. Collect data from a remote site.
* 2. Extract the required contents.
* 3. Add the contents to the internal data structure.
*
* Bridges can optionally specify parameters to customize bridge behavior based
* on user input. For example, a user could specify how many items to return in
* the feed and where to get them.
*
* In order to present a bridge on the home page, and for the purpose of bridge
* specific behaviour, additional information must be provided by the bridge:
*
* * **Name**
* The name of the bridge that can be displayed to users.
*
* * **Description**
* A brief description for the bridge that can be displayed to users.
*
* * **URI**
* A link to the hosting provider.
*
* * **Maintainer**
* The GitHub username of the bridge maintainer
*
* * **Parameters**
* A list of parameters for customization
*
* * **Icon**
* A link to the favicon of the hosting provider
*
* * **Cache timeout**
* The default cache timeout for the bridge.
*/
interface BridgeInterface {
/**
* Collects data from the site
*/
public function collectData();
/**
* Returns the description
*
* @return string Description
*/
public function getDescription();
/**
* Returns an array of collected items
*
* @return array Associative array of items
*/
public function getItems();
/**
* Returns the bridge maintainer
*
* @return string Bridge maintainer
*/
public function getMaintainer();
/**
* Returns the bridge name
*
* @return string Bridge name
*/
public function getName();
/**
* Returns the bridge icon
*
* @return string Bridge icon
*/
public function getIcon();
/**
* Returns the bridge parameters
*
* @return array Bridge parameters
*/
public function getParameters();
/**
* Returns the bridge URI
*
* @return string Bridge URI
*/
public function getURI();
/**
* Returns the cache timeout
*
* @return int Cache timeout
*/
public function getCacheTimeout();
/**
* Returns parameters from given URL or null if URL is not applicable
*
* @param string $url URL to extract parameters from
* @return array|null List of bridge parameters or null if detection failed.
*/
public function detectParameters($url);
}