[Libreoffice] new configmgr access API ...

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 01/16/2012 02:09 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 09:18 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> The UNO concept is to thread the (one and only) component context
>> instance through the code
>
> Does the configmgr need the component context just for
> Components::getExternalValue, which I imagine is to handle stuff like
>
> officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/System.xcu work, i.e.
>
>      <prop oor:name="Locale">
>        <value oor:external=
>            "com.sun.star.configuration.backend.LocaleBackend Locale"/>
>      </prop>
>
> where a com.sun.star.configuration.backend.LocaleBackend has to be
> instantiated to get the value for the locale ? Or are there other uses ?
>
> I suppose
> officecfg::Office::Common::Misc::UseLocking::get();
> for config items that don't/can't instantiate uno foo for their values
> and
> officecfg::Office::Foo::Bar::Baz::get(context); for ones that do/can is
> probably not practical ?

The context is already needed to instantiate the 
com.sun.star.configuration.ReadOnlyAccess service.

Stephan