Hi Marten,
> Yes, these are hints, but you do not get this information from the IDL
> reference
> and it seems to be impossible to get this information via reflection.
>
> I created now around 3000 classes from doing reflection of the whole
> system and
> can't get this information.
The following is an interactive session (starting ooRexx in a command
line window, loading the uno/OOo support by calling the module "uno.cls"
and then querying the definition of the service
"com.sun.star.text.TextFields" using the IDL name) on Windows XP:
F:\test\ooo>rexxtry
REXX-ooRexx_3.2.0(MT) 6.02 16 Jun 2008
rexxtry.rex lets you interactively try REXX statements.
Each string is executed when you hit Enter.
Enter 'call tell' for a description of the features.
Go on - try a few... Enter 'exit' to end.
call uno.cls
........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
str="com.sun.star.text.TextFields"
........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
say ppd(uno.getDefinition(str))
UNO_SERVICE|com.sun.star.text.TextFields|
com.sun.star.container.XEnumerationAccess|UNO_INTERFACE||com.sun.star.text.TextFields
com.sun.star.util.XRefreshable|UNO_INTERFACE||com.sun.star.text.TextFields
........................................... rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT
So the "XRefreshable" interface gets listed, and very easily so...
:)
---
Behind the curtains the UNO reflection mechanism is used to get to the
information. Wrote a Java wrapper for it, which encodes the results in
form of a string, that can be easily parsed according to p.2. on
<http://wi.wu-wien.ac.at/rgf/rexx/bsf4rexx/current/refcardOOo.pdf>,
right-most column, section entitled "Table “UNOIDL String Encodings”".
If you can interface with Java "behind the curtain" from Smalltalk then
please say so and I will direct you to where to get that Java wrapper
class (it took me *quite* some efforts to create it, but it works on all
platforms: Linux, Macs, and Windows), which may help you as well in your
efforts.
---rony
P.S.: Of course I am always interested in seeing the Smalltalk snippets
from time to time to relate to another posting of yours...
