On 18.12.2015 02:58, Carl Marcum wrote:
> 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?
Sounds great, interesting and helpful, go for it !!!
---rony
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