/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. * * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. * * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed * with this work for additional information regarding copyright * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache * License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . */ module com { module sun { module star { module chart2 { module data { /** An application that provides data for a chart must implement this interface. */ interface XDataProvider : ::com::sun::star::uno::XInterface { /** If `TRUE` is returned, a call to createDataSource with the same arguments must return a valid XDataSequence object. If `FALSE` is returned, createDataSource throws an exception. */ boolean createDataSourcePossible( [in] sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > aArguments ); /** Creates a data source object that matches the given range representation string.
This can be used for creating the necessary data for a new chart out of a previously selected range of cells in a spreadsheet.
@param aArguments Arguments that tell the data provider how to slice the given range. The properties should be defined in a separate service.For spreadsheets and text document tables there exists a service TabularDataProviderArguments describing valid values for this list.
@return a data source containing DataSequences that span the entire region given inaArguments
.
@throws ::com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
may be raised by the XDataProvider if it is
unable to interpret the arguments passed in
aArguments
appropriately.
*/
XDataSource createDataSource(
[in] sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > aArguments )
raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
/** Tries to find out with what parameters the passed
DataSource most probably was created.
if xDataSource is a data source that was created with createDataSource(), the arguments returned here should be the same than the ones passed to the function. Of course, this cannot be guaranteed. However, if detection is ambiguous, the returned arguments should be empty.
This method may merge representation strings together if adjacent ranges appear successively in the range identifiers. E.g., if the first range refers to "$Sheet1.$A$1:$A$8" and the second range refers to "$Sheet1.$B$1:$B$8", those should be merged together to "$Sheet1.$A$1:$B$8".
@param xDataSource A data source containing all data used in a chart. @return Arguments that when being passed to createDataSource() should in an ideal case return the same data source asxDataSource
.
*/
sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > detectArguments(
[in] XDataSource xDataSource );
/** If `TRUE` is returned, a call to
createDataSequenceByRangeRepresentation with the same argument must
return a valid XDataSequence object. If `FALSE` is returned,
createDataSequenceByRangeRepresentation throws an exception.
*/
boolean createDataSequenceByRangeRepresentationPossible( [in] string aRangeRepresentation );
/** creates a single data sequence for the given data range.
@param aRangeRepresentation
is a string that can be interpreted by the component that
implements this interface. The representation string is
of a form that may be used in the user interface.
@see createDataSource
@throws com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
if the given range does not contain a valid range
representation for a one-dimensional range of data.
*/
XDataSequence createDataSequenceByRangeRepresentation(
[in] string aRangeRepresentation )
raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
/** Creates a single data sequence from the string value array representation
@param aRole
The role of the sequence inside a data series. This may be any
string. However some strings are predefined and should always
be used in the same way.
@param aValueArray
is a string that contains the value representation of the
sequence to be created.
@param aRoleQualifier
is a string that describes the role of the sequence.
This may be any string. However some strings are predefined
and should always be used in the same way.
@throws com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
if the given value array does not contain a valid value array
representation.
*/
XDataSequence createDataSequenceByValueArray( [in] string aRole, [in] string aValueArray,
[in] string aRoleQualifier )
raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );
/** Returns a component that is able to change a given range
representation to another one. This usually is a
controller-component that uses the GUI to allow a user to
select a new range.
This method may return nothing, if it does not support range selection or if there is no current controller available that offers the functionality.
@return The component for selecting a new range. It must support XComponent, in order to inform the receiver about its lifetime. */ com::sun::star::sheet::XRangeSelection getRangeSelection(); }; } ; // data } ; // chart2 } ; // com } ; // sun } ; // star /* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */