1/* This file is part of the KDE libraries
2 Copyright (c) 1999 Matthias Kalle Dalheimer <kalle@kde.org>
3 Copyright (c) 2000 Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>
4 Copyright (c) 2005 Joseph Wenninger <kde@jowenn.at>
5
6 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
8 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
9 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10
11 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
14 Library General Public License for more details.
15
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
17 along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to
18 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
19 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
20*/
21
22#ifndef KRANDOM_H
23#define KRANDOM_H
24
25#include <kdecore_export.h>
26
27#include <QtCore/QString>
28
29/**
30 * \headerfile krandom.h <KRandom>
31 *
32 * @short Helper class to create random data
33 *
34 * This namespace provides methods which generate random data.
35 */
36namespace KRandom {
37 /**
38 * Generates a uniform random number.
39 * @return A random number in the range [0, RAND_MAX). The RNG is seeded
40 * on first use.
41 */
42 KDECORE_EXPORT int random();
43
44 /**
45 * Generates a random string. It operates in the range [A-Za-z0-9]
46 * @param length Generate a string of this length.
47 * @return the random string
48 */
49 KDECORE_EXPORT QString randomString(int length);
50}
51
52
53#endif
54
55