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charitha Madusanka commented on ODFTOOLKIT-308:
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Exposing ODF toolkit functions through a command line interface idea is a very
interesting. Here is abstraction of my approach.
First we need to identify the functions we provide through the CLI and
implement that fuctions ( ex : search, merge, replace, format ....)
Then we need to figure out commands structure. ( eg. odf < function > <option
... > <files....> ).
We can to use a Java CLI parsing library [1][2] to process the command line
options.
Finally we need to invoke the back-end functions appropriate to command.
[1] - http://commons.apache.org/cli/
[2] - http://pholser.github.com/jopt-simple/
> GSoC: ODF Command Line Tools
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: ODFTOOLKIT-308
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-308
> Project: ODF Toolkit
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Rob Weir
> Assignee: Rob Weir
> Labels: gsoc2012, mentor
>
> GNU/Linux, and UNIX before then has shown the great power of a text
> processing via simple command line tools, combined with operating facilities
> for piping and redirection. This filter-baed text processing is what makes
> shell programming so powerful. But it only works well for text documents.
> But what about more complex, WYSIWYG documents, spreadsheets, word
> processors, with more complex formats, often not text based at all? The tool
> set becomes far weaker.
> The Apache ODF Toolkit is a Java API that gives a high level view of a
> document, and enables programmatic manipulation of a document. We have
> functions for doing things like search & replace. There is a lot you can do
> using the ODF Toolkit. But it still requires Java programming, and that
> limits its reach to professional programmers.
> What if we could write, using the ODF Toolkit, a set of command line
> utilities that made it easy to do both simple and complex text manipulation
> tasks form a command line, things like:
> 1) Concatenate documents
> 2) Replace slide 3 in presentation A with slide 3 from presentation B
> 3) Apply the styles of document A to all documents in the current directory
> 4) Find all occurances of "sausages" in the given document and add a
> hyperlink to sausages.com
> and so on.
> Clearly analogs of cat, grep, diff and sed are obvious ones. Maybe something
> awk-like that works with spreadsheets? No need to be slavish to the original
> tools, but create something of similar power, but which operate on ODF
> documents. For example, an alternative solution might be to write a new
> shell processor that has native commands for ODF document manipulation.
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