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+/*
+    This file is part of KAddressBook.
+    Copyright (c) 2002 Mike Pilone <mpilone@slac.com>
+
+    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
+    (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+    As a special exception, permission is given to link this program
+    with any edition of Qt, and distribute the resulting executable,
+    without including the source code for Qt in the source distribution.
+*/
+
+#ifndef ADDRESSEEUTIL_H
+#define ADDRESSEEUTIL_H
+
+#include <qstring.h>
+#include <kabc/addressee.h>
+
+/**
+  This class provides some utility methods for transposing an
+  addressee to different types (ie: clipboard). This class
+  is probably just temporary until these function stablize and move
+  to KABC.
+
+  NOTE: Currently these methods are not implemented properly. The
+  vCard parser in KABC needs to be updated and there is no way to get from
+  KABC::Addressee to vCard.
+*/
+class AddresseeUtil
+{
+  public:
+    /**
+      Same as above function, except that an entire list of KABC::Addressee
+      objects will be converted to vCard and put in the string.
+     */
+    static QString addresseesToClipboard( const KABC::Addressee::List &addrList );
+
+    /**
+      Convert a string from the clipboard into a list of addressee objects.
+      If the clipboard text was not a valid vcard, an empty list
+      will be returned.
+     */
+    static KABC::Addressee::List clipboardToAddressees( const QString &clipboard );
+
+    /**
+      Converts the list of addressee objects into a list of email addresses.
+     */
+    static QString addresseesToEmails( const KABC::Addressee::List &addrList );
+
+  private:
+    AddresseeUtil() {}
+    ~AddresseeUtil() {}
+};
+
+#endif