Kohei Yoshida schrieb:
Hey Daniel,
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 09:29 +0200, Daniel Rentz wrote:
Hi Kohei
some thoughts about the new ExternalDocLinks API in CWS mooxlsc...
First, there is no documentation in the IDL files, please consider to
add some ;-)
Well, real men use code as the documentation. ;-)
Yes, I know ;-)
The elements of the container could implement the new service
ExternalDocLink which is a container too. Elements are the
ExternalSheetCache objects, names of the elements are the sheet names in
the external document. A new interface XExternalDocLink adds the method
addSheetCache() that looks for an existing cache similar to above.
That was in fact pretty much my first version, then I realized that it
was not consistent with the internal API from ScExternalRefManager, so I
simplified it by removing the container class.
But I can add it back for consistency's sake with the DDELink API. It
just will be mostly a glue code though since internally there is no doc
link container for each linked document.
Yes, would be nice to have it. As you said, not so difficult to
implement, as only container read-access is provided. And gives more
freedom to use it externally.
To do: do we need API to remove something from the cache, or an entire
cache, or even an entire external linked document?
I think we do, eventually. I would like to eventually export much of
ScExternalRefManager's functionality via API so that we could use it for
export filters as well as automation. But I'm still on my first
version, so not all of its functionality is made available yet.
Ok, I wrote all that came into my mind :)
Yes I know, that would be a little bit more work, but would make the new
API more consistent to the existing Calc API. :-)
Well, I'm all for API's consistency. But keep in mind that I'm not
through with my API yet. I checked it in so that we can start our
discussion on API design (like this one). :-)
I saw that Juergen Schmidt asked something too, on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
Looking forward to have this feature, thanks for your work :-)
Daniel
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