[Libreoffice] How to call from one component to another (sw->starmath)

[Miklos Vajna]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 05:16:17PM +0200, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
>  I'm implementing .docx OOXML support for writing math formulas. As this is 
> something that could be used not only by Writer but also by other components, 
> I want to implement the writing of the formula in Starmath. And even if I 
> didn't want, Sm* classes (which implement and store the formulas) are in 
> starmath/ , and sw-starmath do not link against each other.
> 
>  So, the question is, how do I call from sw to starmath without linking them 
> together? I checked how the binary .doc filter does it, and it goes via ~10 
> calls deep [1] that call some UNO interfaces and store the result in some 
> private stream or whatever. But I find that needlessly complicated, as I 
> already have a pointer to SmModel and SmDocShell (I can get it the same way 
> the .doc code does) and just need to call their method, passing the XML 
> serializer object as an argument, that's it.
> 
>  The best I've come up with creating let's say 
> offapi/com/sun/star/starmath/WriteMath.idl with the function, make SmModel 
> inherit from that and cast&call using it in sw. But I have not much idea 
> about UNO, so I don't know what the stuff under offapi/ actually really is 
> about. Is this a good solution or does somebody know something better?

That looks fine, that's how the rest of writerfilter can live without
the Sw* classes. Did you check if the existing uno api is enough for
you? See the output of 'git ls-files starmath|grep uno'. If yes, then
you don't have to mess with offapi. :)
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