Hi Stephan,

just got to see your answer, hence my rather late answer:

maybe a very stupid question, still wondering whether constants wrapped as "Any" were intended. Using reflection via Java the following constants employ Any (for unsigned long):

What kind of reflection do you mean---Java reflection or UNO reflection? Please give some example code snippet.

Java reflection, here's the snippet dumping CONSTANTS:

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   static void dumpConstants(XTypeDescription xtd)
   {
       TypeClass tc=xtd.getTypeClass();

       XConstantsTypeDescription xitd = (XConstantsTypeDescription)
           UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XConstantsTypeDescription.class, xtd);

       XConstantTypeDescription ximtd [] = xitd.getConstants();
       int i2=0;
       String type="", name="";
       for (i2=0; i2<ximtd.length; i2++)
       {
           name = getUnqualifiedName(ximtd[i2].getName());
           Object rgfConstType = ximtd[i2].getConstantValue();
           say("\t\t\t"+i2+": "+name+" - "+ximtd[i2].getConstantValue()
               + " - " + pp(rgfConstType.getClass())
           );
       }
       say("");
   }
--------------- cut here -------------


and here's the output for <com.sun.star.sync.SyncOptions>:

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                        0: NONE - Any[Type[unsigned long], 0] - <class 
com.sun.star.uno.Any>
                        1: DONT_COPY - Any[Type[unsigned long], 1] - <class 
com.sun.star.uno.Any>
                        2: DONT_REMOVE - Any[Type[unsigned long], 2] - <class 
com.sun.star.uno.Any>
                        3: SERVER_WINS - Any[Type[unsigned long], 256] - <class 
com.sun.star.uno.Any>
                        4: CLIENT_WINS - Any[Type[unsigned long], 512] - <class 
com.sun.star.uno.Any>
                        5: CREATE_BACKUP - Any[Type[unsigned long], 65536] - 
<class com.sun.star.uno.Any>
--------------- cut here ---------------


Dumping the entire module "com.sun.star" the following constants are the only 
ones which show up as Any, if I am not mistaken:

    * <com.sun.star.sync.SyncOptions>
    * <com.sun.star.sync.SyncAction>
    * <com.sun.star.sync.SyncType>
    * <com.sun.star.sync.SyncMode>
    * <com.sun.star.sync.SyncEvent>
    * <com.sun.star.corba.iop.ServiceIdGroup>
    * <com.sun.star.corba.iop.ProfileIdGroup>

These constant groups have members of UNO type UNSIGNED LONG. They are represented in Java as final fields of Java type int (and you have to know that the values have to be interpreted as unsigned when you use them), no Any involved.

Hmm, I see. However, there are no "int", but "java.lang.Integer" datatypes.

There are two constants groups with java.lang.Long: <com.sun.star.embed.Aspects> and <com.sun.star.embed.EmbedMisc>.

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        xtd=[<com.sun.star.embed.Aspects>:         <CONSTANTS>
                        0: MSOLE_CONTENT - 1 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        1: MSOLE_THUMBNAIL - 2 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        2: MSOLE_ICON - 4 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        3: MSOLE_DOCPRINT - 8 - <class java.lang.Long>

        xtd=[<com.sun.star.embed.EmbedMisc>:       <CONSTANTS>
                        0: MS_EMBED_RECOMPOSEONRESIZE - 1 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        1: MS_EMBED_ONLYICONIC - 2 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        2: MS_EMBED_INSERTNOTREPLACE - 4 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        3: MS_EMBED_STATIC - 8 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        4: MS_EMBED_CANTLINKINSIDE - 16 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        5: MS_EMBED_CANLINKBYOLE1 - 32 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        6: MS_EMBED_ISLINKOBJECT - 64 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        7: MS_EMBED_INSIDEOUT - 128 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        8: MS_EMBED_ACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE - 256 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        9: MS_EMBED_RENDERINGISDEVICEINDEPENDENT - 512 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        10: MS_EMBED_INVISIBLEATRUNTIME - 1024 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        11: MS_EMBED_ALWAYSRUN - 2048 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        12: MS_EMBED_ACTSLIKEBUTTON - 4096 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        13: MS_EMBED_ACTSLIKELABEL - 8192 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        14: MS_EMBED_NOUIACTIVATE - 16384 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        15: MS_EMBED_ALIGNABLE - 32768 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        16: MS_EMBED_SIMPLEFRAME - 65536 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        17: MS_EMBED_SETCLIENTSITEFIRST - 131072 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        18: MS_EMBED_IMEMODE - 262144 - <class java.lang.Long>
                        19: MS_EMBED_IGNOREACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE - 524288 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        20: MS_EMBED_WANTSTOMENUMERGE - 1048576 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        21: MS_EMBED_SUPPORTSMULTILEVELUNDO - 2097152 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        22: EMBED_ACTIVATEIMMEDIATELY - 4294967296 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
                        23: EMBED_NEVERRESIZE - 8589934592 - <class 
java.lang.Long>
------------------- cut here ------------------

Regards,

---rony





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