Issue 93815 - Custom properties of DocumentInfo are not accessible by BASIC code
Summary: Custom properties of DocumentInfo are not accessible by BASIC code
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: scripting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.0 RC1
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial with 1 vote (vote)
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Reported: 2008-09-12 09:42 UTC by mchris
Modified: 2022-07-23 14:53 UTC (History)
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A demo text file for this issue. Search the BASIC code. (8.62 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2008-09-12 09:44 UTC, mchris 		no flags Details
info: SDK 3.0 and online reference (419.09 KB, image/jpeg)
2022-07-23 14:53 UTC, Czesław Wolański 		no flags Details
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Description mchris 2008-09-12 09:42:22 UTC 
Try the following code in any OOo document (I've already tried it on Writer
documents and on Base forms):

Sub Main

if ThisComponent.DocumentInfo.PropertySetInfo.hasPropertyByName("MyProperty") then

ThisComponent.DocumentInfo.MyProperty="MyValue"

else

ThisComponent.DocumentInfo.addProperty("MyProperty",193,"MyValue")

endif

print ThisComponent.DocumentInfo.MyProperty ' It prints a null string
REM you have to install XRayTool to run this line
Xray ThisComponent.DocumentInfo
REM XRay tool shows the correct string "MyValue" in "MyProperty" but when you
REM double click on it, it shows a null string (really weird).

End Sub

In conclusion every time I try to access a custom property from DocumentInfo the
program returns a null string. This was not the case with previous versions.

I tried it only on OOo 3 RC1 under Win XP.
Comment 1 mchris 2008-09-12 09:44:07 UTC 
Created attachment 56467 [details]
A demo text file for this issue. Search the BASIC code.
Comment 2 mchris 2008-09-15 08:06:25 UTC 
I made some tests and I found out that it is more complicated. hasPropertyByName
method always returns true.

I don't know if assignment works because accessing a custom property always
returns a null string but in XRayTool the value is visible.

Please ab, can you investigate what the real problem is and change the description?

thank you.
Comment 3 ab 2008-09-19 13:44:34 UTC 
Needs to be evaluated
Comment 4 ab 2008-10-07 15:33:01 UTC 
Forgot to set to STARTED, OOo 3.x
Comment 5 mchris 2008-10-07 16:44:03 UTC 
Please search the possibility that DocumentInfo service is depreciated in OOo
3.0 SDK. I don't have access to this SDK yet.
Comment 6 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:55:22 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".
Comment 7 Czesław Wolański 2022-07-23 14:52:48 UTC 
Checking the issue with three versions:
- in 2.4.3 the program works as expected by the reporter
- in 3.0.0 it returns a null string indeed
- interestingly, in 4.1.12 it returns "MyValue".

The 3.0 SDK documentation states that the DocumentInfo service
is deprecated and recommends using the DocumentProperties service instead.
The online IDL reference provides the same information
(cf. the attached file).


Fixing the code in line with the new specs gives the desired effect.
Thus I see no real defect in this issue.
Comment 8 Czesław Wolański 2022-07-23 14:53:59 UTC 
Created attachment 87140 [details]
info: SDK 3.0 and online reference