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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    extragear/sysadmin/libqapt/src
From:       Jonathan Michael Thomas <echidnaman () kubuntu ! org>
Date:       2011-01-04 19:23:39
Message-ID: 20110104192339.0BAD7AC8B0 () svn ! kde ! org
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SVN commit 1211740 by jmthomas:

Add a QString overload for Package::controlField(), and also give both apidox


 M  +5 -0      package.cpp  
 M  +17 -0     package.h  


--- trunk/extragear/sysadmin/libqapt/src/package.cpp #1211739:1211740
@@ -542,6 +542,11 @@
     return field;
 }
 
+QString Package::controlField(const QString &name) const
+{
+    return controlField(QLatin1String(name.toStdString().c_str()));
+}
+
 qint64 Package::currentInstalledSize() const
 {
     pkgCache::VerIterator ver = d->packageIter->CurrentVer();
--- trunk/extragear/sysadmin/libqapt/src/package.h #1211739:1211740
@@ -256,8 +256,25 @@
     */
     QString supportedUntil() const;
 
+   /**
+    * Returns the specified field of the package's debian/control file
+    *
+    * This function can be used to return data from custom control fields
+    * which do not have an official function inside APT to retrieve them.
+    * 
+    * For example, the supportedUntil() function uses this function to
+    * retrieve the value of the "Supported" field, which is Ubuntu-specific
+    * and does not have an APT function with which to obtain it.
+    *
+    * Another usecase is the GStreamer metadata fields for GStreamer packages,
+    * which are used to give information on what mimetypes/GStreamer version
+    * the package supports.
+    */
     QString controlField(const QLatin1String &name) const;
 
+    /** Overload for QString controlField(const QLatin1String &name) const; **/
+    QString controlField(const QString &name) const;
+
    /**
     * Returns the amount of hard drive space that the currently-installed
     * version of this package takes up.
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