RSS Feed Aggregator and Blogging Smart Client

// Copyright � 2005 by Omar Al Zabir. All rights are reserved.
// 
// If you like this code then feel free to go ahead and use it.
// The only thing I ask is that you don't remove or alter my copyright notice.
//
// Your use of this software is entirely at your own risk. I make no claims or
// warrantees about the reliability or fitness of this code for any particular purpose.
// If you make changes or additions to this code please mark your code as being yours.
// 
// website http://www.oazabir.com, email OmarAlZabir@gmail.com, msn oazabir@hotmail.com

using System;
using System.Net;

namespace RSSBlogAPI
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Base class for custom Blog API. See an implementation for details.
	/// </summary>
	public abstract class BlogAPIBase
	{
		#region Private Fields

		private string _BlogId;
		private string _Username;
		private string _Password;
		private string _Url;
		private WebProxy _ProxyServer = WebProxy.GetDefaultProxy();

		#endregion

		#region Abstract Properties

		public abstract void Test();
		public abstract bool HasCategories { get; }
		public abstract bool HasBlogId { get; }
		public abstract string EngineName { get; }
		public abstract string HelpText { get; }
		public abstract Category [] GetCategories();
		public abstract string PostItem( Post post );

		#endregion

		#region General implementations of properties

		public virtual string BlogId
		{ 
			get { return _BlogId;  }
			set { _BlogId = value; }
		}

		public virtual string Username
		{ 
			get { return _Username;  }
			set { _Username = value; }
		}

		public virtual string Password
		{ 
			get { return _Password;  }
			set { _Password = value; }
		}

		public virtual string Url
		{ 
			get { return _Url;  }
			set { _Url = value; }
		}

		public WebProxy ProxyServer
		{
			get { return _ProxyServer;  }
			set { _ProxyServer = value; }
		}

		#endregion

		protected virtual HttpWebRequest CreateRequest( string method )
		{
			HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create( this.Url ) as HttpWebRequest;
			request.Proxy = this.ProxyServer;
			request.ContentType = "text/xml";
			request.Method = method;
			request.UserAgent = "RSS Feeder";

			return request;
		}
	}
}