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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
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+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+#ifndef __com_sun_star_document_FilterFactory_idl__
+#define __com_sun_star_document_FilterFactory_idl__
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XMultiServiceFactory.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/XNameContainer.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/XContainerQuery.idl>
+#include <com/sun/star/util/XFlushable.idl>
+
+
+module com { module sun { module star { module document {
+
+/** factory to create filter components.
+
+ <p>
+ After a generic TypeDetection an internal type name
+ will be known. Further a generic com::sun::star::frame::FrameLoader
+ can use this information, to search a suitable filter (may the default filter) at
+ this factory and use it for loading the document into a specified frame.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ This factory implements read/write access on the underlying configuration set.
+ and further a validate and flush mechanism for more performance and a special query mode
+ can be used here too.
+ </p>
+ */
+published service FilterFactory
+{
+ /** factory interface to create and initialize filter components.
+
+ <p>
+ <strong>Current behavior</strong><p>
+ The methods createInstance() or createInstanceWithArguments() of this interface must be
+ called with an internal type name!. This name is used internally to search a suitable
+ (mostly the default) filter for this type then. The found filter will be created, initialized
+ and returned then. Creation of a filter by using its internal filter name directly can be
+ reached by using createInstanceWithArguments() with an optional property "FilterName" only.
+ See the following example:
+
+ @code{.java}
+ private com.sun.star.uno.XInterface createFilterDirect( com.sun.star.lang.XMultiServiceFactory xFilterFactory ,
+ java.lang.String sInternalFilterName )
+ {
+ com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue aFilterProp = new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue();
+ aFilterProp.Name = "FilterName";
+ aFilterProp.Value = sInternalFilterName;
+
+ com.sun.star.uno.Any[] lProps = new com.sun.star.uno.Any[1];
+ lProps[0] = aFilterProp;
+
+ java.lang.Object aFilter = xFilterFactory.createInstanceWithArguments("", lProps);
+ return (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface)UnoRuntime.queryInterface(com.sun.star.uno.XInterface.class, aFilter);
+ }
+ @endcode
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <strong>Proposed behavior</strong><p>
+ Searching of a suitable filter for a given internal type name, must be done by the new interface
+ com::sun::star::container::XContainerQuery, available on this factory too.
+ The factory interface can be used to create filter components by its internal filter name only.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <strong>How it can be distinguished?</strong><p>
+ The new proposed implementation will throw a com::sun::star::container::NoSuchElementException
+ if the first parameter of createInstance() or createInstanceWithArguments() does not match to a valid container (means
+ filter) item. Further it will throw a com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException if the optional
+ parameter "FilterName" could not be detected inside the argument list of call createInstanceWithArguments().
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ <strong>Initialization of a filter component</strong><p>
+ Every filter, which was created by this factory can(!) be initialized with its own configuration data
+ and may given optional arguments of the corresponding createInstanceWithArguments() request. To do so the filter
+ instance must support the optional interface com::sun::star::lang::XInitialization.
+ The arguments parameter will have the following structure:
+ <ul>
+ <li>sequence< Any >[0] contains a sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue >,
+ which represent the configuration data set of this filter. The used properties are the same, as
+ they are available at the container interface of this factory service. (see below)</li>
+ <li>Every following item of the argument list sequence< Any >[1..n] contains the copied argument of the
+ corresponding createInstanceWithArguments() call. That means: Item 0 or the original list was copied as
+ item 1 of the destination list ... etc.
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ */
+ interface com::sun::star::lang::XMultiServiceFactory;
+
+ /** provides read access to the complete set of configuration data.
+
+ <p>
+ Every container item is specified as a set of properties and will be
+ represented by a sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue > structure.
+ Follow properties are supported:
+ (But note: not all of them must be present every time!)
+ </p>
+ <table border=1>
+ <tr>
+ <td><strong>Property Name</strong></td>
+ <td><strong>Value Type</strong></td>
+ <td><strong>Description</strong></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>Name</em></td>
+ <td>[string]</td>
+ <td>The internal name is the only value, which makes a container item unique.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>UIName</em></td>
+ <td>[string]</td>
+ <td>It contains the localized name for this filter for the current locale.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>UINames</em></td>
+ <td>[sequence< string >]</td>
+ <td>It contains all available localized names for this filter. The are organized
+ in pairs and represented as a structure of sequence< com::sun::star::beans::PropertyValue >.
+ The name of such property must be interpreted as locale; its value as the localized
+ filter name corresponding to this locale.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>Type</em></td>
+ <td>[string]</td>
+ <td>Every filter is registered for a type. This value contains the internal name of it.
+ (see service TypeDetection for further information)</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>DocumentService</em></td>
+ <td>[string]</td>
+ <td>It's the UNO service name of the document type, which can be handled by this filter.
+ (e.g. com::sun::star::text::TextDocument)</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>FilterService</em></td>
+ <td>[string]</td>
+ <td>It means the UNO implementation name of the filter component.
+ Note: It really means the implementation instead of the UNO service name.
+ Because it's not possible to distinguish between more than one filters; if all of them
+ uses a generic identifier!</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>Flags</em></td>
+ <td>[integer]</td>
+ <td>They describe the filter more specific.<br>
+ (e.g. they mark it as IMPORT/EXPORT or DEFAULT filter.)</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>UserData</em></td>
+ <td>[string]</td>
+ <td>This field contains filter specific configuration data.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>FileFormatVersion</em></td>
+ <td>[integer]</td>
+ <td>It specifies the supported file format version if there exist more than ones.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><em>TemplateName</em></td>
+ <td>[string]</td>
+ <td>It's the name of a suitable default template.</td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Note:<br>
+ All elements of this container will be addressed by his internal name,
+ and it must be an unambiguous value.
+ </p>
+ */
+ interface com::sun::star::container::XNameAccess;
+
+ /** provides a write access to the configuration data.
+ */
+ [optional] interface com::sun::star::container::XNameContainer;
+
+ /** provides search on the configuration data set.
+
+ <p>
+ Against simple property search it provides some complex algorithms too.
+ For further information please read the SDK documentation.
+ </p>
+ */
+ interface com::sun::star::container::XContainerQuery;
+
+ /** can be used to perform container changes.
+
+ <p>
+ Because the complexness of such configuration set can be very high,
+ it seems not very useful to update the underlying configuration layer
+ on every container change request immediately. Another strategy can be to
+ make all changes (adding/changing/removing of items) and call flush at the end.
+ That will validate the whole container and reject inconsistent data sets.
+ Only in case all made changes was correct, they will be written back to the
+ configuration. Further this interface provides the possibility, that interested
+ changes listener can be registered too.
+ </p>
+ */
+ [optional] interface com::sun::star::util::XFlushable;
+};
+
+
+}; }; }; };
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */