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  • PaoloB
    #1

    Mocking OpenOffice in python?

    Hi everyone,

    during our development, we need to write some unit tests that interact
    with OpenOffice through pyUno.

    Is there anyone who has got any experience on it? As OpenOffice is
    quite a large beast, and interaction is rather complex, I would like
    to know if there is someone who is willing to share experience (and,
    possibly, code).

    Ciao

    PaoloB

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    • Méta-MCI
      #2
      Re: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

      Hi!


      Under windows, I drive OOo, from Python, via COM/OLE-automation.

      It's run OK, but some bugs, in the OOo-COM-Python, had stop my
      devloppements.. .

      However, this way is usable (only on Win, ok?)



      @-salutations
      --
      Michel Claveau


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        • Carsten Haese
          #3
          Re: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

          On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 01:39 -0700, PaoloB wrote:
          Hi everyone,
          >
          during our development, we need to write some unit tests that interact
          with OpenOffice through pyUno.
          >
          Is there anyone who has got any experience on it? As OpenOffice is
          quite a large beast, and interaction is rather complex, I would like
          to know if there is someone who is willing to share experience (and,
          possibly, code).
          I have some experience with pyuno, but your question is very open-ended.
          It would be helpful if you asked specific questions or gave more
          background on what kind of interaction you're trying to achieve.

          The generic answer to your request for code examples is that there's a
          tutorial with example code at
          http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html, and then there's
          the API documentation at
          http://api.openoffice.org/Developers...persGuide.html.

          -Carsten


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            • Shane Geiger
              #4
              Re: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

              My take was that this is an effort to manipulate these files without the
              need for Open Office, so I replied as follows:

              Open Office files (.ods and perhaps .odt) are just zipped or gzipped.
              Unpack that and then you are dealing with manipulating regular text
              files--probably HTML.


              Carsten Haese wrote:
              On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 01:39 -0700, PaoloB wrote:
              >
              >Hi everyone,
              >>
              >during our development, we need to write some unit tests that interact
              >with OpenOffice through pyUno.
              >>
              >Is there anyone who has got any experience on it? As OpenOffice is
              >quite a large beast, and interaction is rather complex, I would like
              >to know if there is someone who is willing to share experience (and,
              >possibly, code).
              >>
              >
              I have some experience with pyuno, but your question is very open-ended.
              It would be helpful if you asked specific questions or gave more
              background on what kind of interaction you're trying to achieve.
              >
              The generic answer to your request for code examples is that there's a
              tutorial with example code at
              http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html, and then there's
              the API documentation at
              http://api.openoffice.org/Developers...persGuide.html.
              >
              -Carsten
              >
              >
              >
              --
              Shane Geiger
              IT Director
              National Council on Economic Education
              sgeiger@ncee.ne t | 402-438-8958 | http://www.ncee.net

              Leading the Campaign for Economic and Financial Literacy


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                • PaoloB
                  #5
                  Re: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

                  On 14 Mar, 14:48, Carsten Haese <cars...@uniqsy s.comwrote:
                  On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 01:39 -0700, PaoloB wrote:
                  Hi everyone,
                  >
                  during our development, we need to write some unit tests that interact
                  with OpenOffice through pyUno.
                  >
                  Is there anyone who has got any experience on it? As OpenOffice is
                  quite a large beast, and interaction is rather complex, I would like
                  to know if there is someone who is willing to share experience (and,
                  possibly, code).
                  >
                  I have some experience with pyuno, but your question is very open-ended.
                  It would be helpful if you asked specific questions or gave more
                  background on what kind of interaction you're trying to achieve.
                  >
                  The generic answer to your request for code examples is that there's a
                  tutorial with example code athttp://udk.openoffice. org/python/python-bridge.html, and then there's
                  the API documentation athttp://api.openoffice. org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide .html.
                  >
                  -Carsten
                  Hi Carsten,

                  basically, our project (PAFlow) is an application for producing
                  documents in public administrations .

                  We create templates using OpenOffice, that are filled automatically
                  using data from the application itself.

                  Now, interacting with OpenOffice is slow, and our tests get a lot of
                  time to be executed automatically.

                  We are trying to mock OpenOffice, so that we can run our tests without
                  using a true OpenOffice for our tests, except when we express test the
                  filling of data and production of document.

                  Ciao

                  PaoloB


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                    • PaoloB
                      #6
                      Re: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

                      On 14 Mar, 14:52, Shane Geiger <sgei...@ncee.n etwrote:
                      My take was that this is an effort to manipulate these files without the
                      need for Open Office, so I replied as follows:
                      >
                      Open Office files (.ods and perhaps .odt) are just zipped or gzipped.
                      Unpack that and then you are dealing with manipulating regular text
                      files--probably HTML.
                      No.

                      What I was trying was to build a fake OpenOffice server, so that we
                      could interact with a fake OpenOffice during our unit test. As
                      OpenOffice is quite slow, this could improve the performance of our
                      unit tests.

                      However, your suggestion is interesting.

                      Ciao

                      PaoloB

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                        • olive
                          #7
                          Re: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

                          On Mar 14, 9:39 am, "PaoloB" <pibi...@gmail. comwrote:
                          Hi everyone,
                          Since OO is shipped with Py 2.3 only, I use Jython to drive OO through
                          its Java API.

                          Our app is a mix of:
                          - ODT XML scrapping/templating based on Dom4j which, surprisingly,
                          when use with Jython, is the most pythonic XML API I have tried so far
                          (I find better than minidom, ElementTree or even lxml which is my
                          choice under CPython).
                          - OObean integrated in Java Gui and driven by Jython.

                          I don't like Java much though, but this is what our management wants
                          us to use.
                          By chance, Jython is tolerated so far.

                          Olive.

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                            • Gerrit Muller
                              #8
                              Re: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

                              Méta-MCI schreef:
                              Hi!
                              >
                              >
                              Under windows, I drive OOo, from Python, via COM/OLE-automation.
                              >
                              It's run OK, but some bugs, in the OOo-COM-Python, had stop my
                              devloppements.. .
                              >
                              However, this way is usable (only on Win, ok?)
                              >
                              Do you have some (small) example program of using OOo from Python via
                              COM/OLE?

                              Can you give any indication of the kind of bugs that you hit?

                              kind regards, Gerrit Muller

                              Gaudi Systems Architecting <www.gaudisite. nl>

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