How do I tear down soffice cleanly?

[Michael Stahl]

On 20.02.2015 18:11, Jens Tröger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've seen a lot of examples of how to start soffice in server mode, and
> then how to connect to it.  I'm using PyUNO and it works.  However, I am
> unclear on how to close down the connection cleanly, so that I won't
> have the "Document Recovery" dialog pop up next time around.  (I assume
> that something wasn't cleaned up correctly, or else the dialog wouldn't
> show?)

that indicates that documents were still open at shutdown time.

> I've asked that same questions with short code examples in the forum, to
> no avail.  Any takers?  Help would be greatly appreciated :-)
> 
>   https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=75367

i think the general idea is to first close all open documents (via
XClosable::close() - only use XComponent::dispose() if the document does
not implement XClosable), and then call XDesktop::terminate()