A qt-interest mail archive search

This example does a search on the qt-interest mailinglist archives. It uses TQHttp to issue the search command and to fetch the results. The GUI parts were done using TQt Designer.

The implementation of the HTTP requests (archivedialog.ui.h):

/****************************************************************************
** $Id: qt/archivedialog.ui.h   3.3.8   edited Jan 29 15:54 $
**
** Copyright (C) 1992-2007 Trolltech ASA.  All rights reserved.
**
** This file is part of an example program for TQt.  This example
** program may be used, distributed and modified without limitation.
**
*****************************************************************************/

/****************************************************************************
** ui.h extension file, included from the uic-generated form implementation.
**
** If you wish to add, delete or rename functions or slots use
** TQt Designer which will update this file, preserving your code. Create an
** init() function in place of a constructor, and a destroy() function in
** place of a destructor.
*****************************************************************************/

void ArchiveDialog::init()
{
    connect(&articleSearcher, SIGNAL(done(bool)), this, SLOT(searchDone(bool)));
    connect(&articleFetcher, SIGNAL(done(bool)), this, SLOT(fetchDone(bool)));
    connect(myListView, SIGNAL(selectionChanged(TQListViewItem*)), this, SLOT(fetch(TQListViewItem*)));
    connect(myLineEdit, SIGNAL(returnPressed()), this, SLOT(search()));
    connect(myListView, SIGNAL(returnPressed(TQListViewItem*)), this, SLOT(fetch(TQListViewItem*)));
    connect(myPushButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(close()));
}

void ArchiveDialog::fetch( TQListViewItem *it )
{
    TQUrl u(it->text(1));
    articleFetcher.setHost(u.host());
    articleFetcher.get(it->text(1));
}

void ArchiveDialog::fetchDone( bool error )
{
    if (error) {
        TQMessageBox::critical(this, "Error fetching",
                              "An error occurred when fetching this document: "
                              + articleFetcher.errorString(),
                              TQMessageBox::Ok, TQMessageBox::NoButton);
    } else {
        myTextBrowser->setText(articleFetcher.readAll());
    }
}

void ArchiveDialog::search()
{
    if (articleSearcher.state() == TQHttp::HostLookup
        || articleSearcher.state() == TQHttp::Connecting
        || articleSearcher.state() == TQHttp::Sending
        || articleSearcher.state() == TQHttp::Reading) {
        articleSearcher.abort();
    }

    if (myLineEdit->text() == "") {
        TQMessageBox::critical(this, "Empty query",
                              "Please type a search string.",
                              TQMessageBox::Ok, TQMessageBox::NoButton);
    } else {
        TQApplication::setOverrideCursor(TQCursor(TQt::WaitCursor));

        articleSearcher.setHost("lists.trolltech.com");

        TQHttpRequestHeader header("POST", "/qt-interest/search.php");
        header.setValue("Host", "lists.trolltech.com");
        header.setContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

        TQString encodedTopic = myLineEdit->text();
        TQUrl::encode(encodedTopic);
        TQString searchString = "qt-interest=on&search=" + encodedTopic;

        articleSearcher.request(header, searchString.utf8());
    }

}

void ArchiveDialog::searchDone( bool error )
{
    if (error) {
        TQMessageBox::critical(this, "Error searching",
                              "An error occurred when searching: "
                              + articleSearcher.errorString(),
                              TQMessageBox::Ok, TQMessageBox::NoButton);
    } else {
        TQString result(articleSearcher.readAll());

        TQRegExp rx("<a href=\"(http://lists\\.trolltech\\.com/qt-interest/.*)\">(.*)</a>");
        rx.setMinimal(TRUE);
        int pos = 0;
        while (pos >= 0) {
            pos = rx.search(result, pos);
            if (pos > -1) {
                pos += rx.matchedLength();
                new TQListViewItem(myListView, rx.cap(2), rx.cap(1));
            }
        }
    }

    TQApplication::restoreOverrideCursor();
}

Main (main.cpp):

/****************************************************************************
** $Id: qt/main.cpp   3.3.8   edited Jan 11 14:37 $
**
** Copyright (C) 1992-2007 Trolltech ASA.  All rights reserved.
**
** This file is part of an example program for TQt.  This example
** program may be used, distributed and modified without limitation.
**
*****************************************************************************/

#include "archivedialog.h"
#include <qapplication.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    TQApplication a( argc, argv );
    ArchiveDialog ad;
    ad.show();

    TQObject::connect( &a, SIGNAL(lastWindowClosed()),
                      &a, SLOT(tquit()) );

    return a.exec();
}