Hi All,
I have started work on two AOO related projects using the now TLP Apache
Groovy language.
I would like to see if there is interest and if so, then seek consensus
to develop them further in the devtools area like the NetBeans plugin.
The first project is a Gradle build based Groovy UNO Client that would
be comparable to the Ant build based projects the NetBeans AOO plugin
generates but with a much simplified build script and compatible with
any IDE that supports Gradle.
I have working code for this that builds, jars, and runs that includes
the standard Loader mechanism.
I would like to extend this to also include AddOns, AddIns, etc.
The second project uses Groovy extensions that can add convenience
methods to existing Java UNO classes to simplify coding by doing all the
UnoRuntime.queryInterface bits in the new methods. These would be
compiled into a library jar and then made available in the Maven repository.
For example code:
leaving out try/catch for brevity and assumes we have a reference to
XSpreadsheetDocument myDoc..
current Java way....
// get the first sheet in the spreadsheet
XSpreadsheets xSheets = myDoc.getSheets() ;
XIndexAccess oIndexSheets = (XIndexAccess) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XIndexAccess.class, xSheets);
xSheet = (XSpreadsheet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XSpreadsheet.class, oIndexSheets.getByIndex(0));
// insert data into a cell
xCell = xSheet.getCellByPosition(1,0);
xCell.setFormula("Sample");
Groovy Extension way...(method names subject to change)
// get the first sheet in the spreadsheet
XSpreadsheet xSheet = myDoc.getSheetByIndex(0)
// insert data into the cell
xSheet.setTextToCell(1,0,"Sample")
I have working code for a few methods that compile, jar and are usable
by the first project but it needs a community effort.
So far all the code is written by me or borrowed from AOO SDK examples
or the Developer Guide.
There are a few Groovy UNO projects out there that do similar things
that are either unlicensed or incompatible and I would like work on a
clean Apache one from scratch and maybe get some help along the way.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Carl
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