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+# -*- tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; py-indent-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 .
+#
+
+#
+# Translated to python from "Bootstrap.java" by Kim Kulak
+#
+
+import os
+import random
+from sys import platform
+from time import sleep
+
+import uno
+from com.sun.star.connection import NoConnectException
+from com.sun.star.uno import Exception as UnoException
+
+
+class BootstrapException(UnoException):
+    pass
+
+def bootstrap():
+    """Bootstrap OOo and PyUNO Runtime.
+    The soffice process is started opening a named pipe of random name, then the local context is used
+	to access the pipe. This function directly returns the remote component context, from whereon you can
+	get the ServiceManager by calling getServiceManager() on the returned object.
+	"""
+    try:
+       # soffice script used on *ix, Mac; soffice.exe used on Win
+        if "UNO_PATH" in os.environ:
+            sOffice = os.environ["UNO_PATH"]
+        else:
+            sOffice = "" # lets hope for the best
+        sOffice = os.path.join(sOffice, "soffice")
+        if platform.startswith("win"):
+            sOffice += ".exe"
+
+        # Generate a random pipe name.
+        random.seed()
+        sPipeName = "uno" + str(random.random())[2:]
+
+        # Start the office process, don't check for exit status since an exception is caught anyway if the office terminates unexpectedly.
+        cmdArray = (sOffice, "--nologo", "--nodefault", "".join(["--accept=pipe,name=", sPipeName, ";urp;"]))
+        os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, sOffice, cmdArray)
+
+        # ---------
+
+        xLocalContext = uno.getComponentContext()
+        resolver = xLocalContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
+            "com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", xLocalContext)
+        sConnect = "".join(["uno:pipe,name=", sPipeName, ";urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext"])
+
+        # Wait until an office is started, but loop only nLoop times (can we do this better???)
+        nLoop = 20
+        while True:
+            try:
+                xContext = resolver.resolve(sConnect)
+                break
+            except NoConnectException:
+                nLoop -= 1
+                if nLoop <= 0:
+                    raise BootstrapException("Cannot connect to soffice server.", None)
+                sleep(0.5)  # Sleep 1/2 second.
+
+    except BootstrapException:
+        raise
+    except Exception as e:  # Any other exception
+        raise BootstrapException("Caught exception " + str(e), None)
+
+    return xContext
+
+# vim: set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: