[api-dev] Using Java for reflecting UNO types, a little question

[Rony G. Flatscher]

Hi there, maybe I am overlooking the obvious. When creating a service object like: o = context.getServiceManager().createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop", context ); and therafter using reflection (theCoreReflection is a reference to "/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection.theCoreReflection" from a default bootstraped context, ie. context=Bootstrap.bootstrap()): XIdlClass xidl=theCoreReflection.getType(o); String name=xidl.getName(); // returns the fully qualified type name will return as type "com.sun.star.uno.XInterface" instead of "com.sun.star.frame.Desktop". This is true for any service one instantiates via Java. --- Also, any interface object will also return an XIdlClass representing "com.sun.star.uno.XInterface" instead of the class representing the respective interface class. ---. Is this working as designed (the behaviour is the same on OOo 1.5 and 2.0) ? If so, how can one unambiguously retrieve the typename of any object at runtime from Java (ie. get its fully qualified class name)? Regards, ---rony