[Work around found] Paragraph without its numbering (Java)

[EMLM]

Hi,

In Writer, accessed with Java UNO API, I'm trying to get all paragraphs texts. When a paragraph is numbered (with a style), its number is comming with the text, sticked to it. I tried to build an Enumeration on the pragraph, but got only one object, providing with the same text result.

Example :
2The trade mark was registered...
When I would like
The trade mark was registered...

Here is a summary of my code :

[B Marcelly]

I think it is not easy to separate the numbering part from the text. You would have to explore the numbering rules associated to the paragraph (see Dev'Guide chapter 7.4.3).

If you are only interested in reading the text you can change the style of each paragraph (property ParaStyleName) to the basic style "Default" and then read the String of the paragraph. Of course don't save the document after these changes

[EMLM]

Thanks for your quick reply.

I would find it incredible if the OOo's API can't enable to access properly the (text) content of a document in such a case !

I succeeded in finding the presence of a numbering by analysing the paragraph's styles, but then I have no good solution to be sure of what should be filtered from the bad extracted text. If the paragraph numering if of type "A, B, C", should I remove all caps ! It's impossible to do this properly.

Of course, the style of the paragraphe can be changed, but this makes impossible to work properly on a document for a serious application.

Waiting for some other infos..

Cheers,

Etienne.

[EMLM]

I tried to enumerate the paragraph content with a XWordCursor.. The numbering is still fused to the first word !

[JohnV]

It appears that you can do this with a portion enumeration of your main enumeration. I think of the main enumeration as a paragraph enumeration and the portion enumeration as a word enumeration although that's an over simplification as it really picks out any piece that has different properties.

Anyway for just plain numbered paragraphs here's the code in Basic. My little test had the 1st paragraph numbered and the 2nd unnumbered. I'll leave it to you to deal with table text.

[EMLM]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

If I understand your code in the right way, this was already tested, as said on the first post :

[EMLM]

....

In fact, in the enumeration built on the paragraph itself, I get sub-part objects when there are bold, ital, or some other inner structures. With no special inner structure in the paragraph, I get only one object.

In all cases, the paragraph number is sticked to the first Word...

[JohnV]

[EMLM]

[EMLM]

I've found a way to get the good result with a small update in the document : insert a space at the beginning of the numbered paragraph, and remove it after getting the text.

[Danad]

There's an issue on the subject:

http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=68511

HTH

[EMLM]

The title of this issue is a bit strange, but yes, after a quick test with the provided document and explanations, I agree it's the same trouble.

What is strange now is that the Basic enumeration script of JohnV seems to work properly, while the same in Java is not working properly... and while the test of the issue also demonstrate the numbering trouble with Basic.

[shivakumar6g]

Hi,

I had a document with the table of contents, some 9 chapters and in that each one has 4 subparts. i want the bullet format for the content in the chapters with tab alignement.
How should i do?
For ex:

1.Information:
(bullet format)Somebody1 taking the information
(bullet format)Somebody2 taking the information
(tab) (bullet format)Somebody3 taking the information
(tab) (bullet format)Somebody4 taking the information
(bullet format)Somebody5 taking the information

[shivakumar6g]

protected void NumberingExample() {
try {
// Go to the end of the document
mxDocCursor.gotoEnd(false);
// Get the RelativeTextContentInsert interface of the document
XRelativeTextContentInsert xRelative = (XRelativeTextContentInsert)
UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XRelativeTextContentInsert.class, mxDocText);

// Use the document's factory to create the NumberingRules service, and get it's
// XIndexAccess interface
XIndexAccess xNum = (XIndexAccess) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XIndexAccess.class,
mxDocFactory.createInstance("com.sun.star.text.NumberingRules"));

// Also get the NumberingRule's XIndexReplace interface
XIndexReplace xReplace = (XIndexReplace) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XIndexReplace.class, xNum);

// Create an array of XPropertySets, one for each of the three paragraphs we're about
// to create
XPropertySet xParas[] = new XPropertySet[3];
for (int i = 0 ; i < 3 ; ++ i) {
// Create a new paragraph
XTextContent xNewPara = (XTextContent) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XTextContent.class, mxDocFactory.createInstance(
"com.sun.star.text.Paragraph"));

// Get the XPropertySet interface of the new paragraph and put it in our array
xParas[i] = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XPropertySet.class, xNewPara);

// Insert the new paragraph into the document after the fish section. As it is
// an insert
// relative to the fish section, the first paragraph inserted will be below
// the next two
xRelative.insertTextContentAfter (xNewPara, mxFishSection);

// Separate from the above, but also needs to be done three times

// Get the PropertyValue sequence for this numbering level
PropertyValue[] aProps = (PropertyValue []) xNum.getByIndex(i);

// Iterate over the PropertyValue's for this numbering level, looking for the
// 'NumberingType' property
for (int j = 0 ; j < aProps.length ; ++j) {
if (aProps[j].Name.equals ("NumberingType")) {
// Once we find it, set it's value to a new type,
// dependent on which
// numbering level we're currently on
switch ( i ) {
case 0 : aProps[j].Value = new Short(NumberingType.ROMAN_UPPER);
break;
case 1 : aProps[j].Value = new Short(NumberingType.CHARS_UPPER_LETTER);
break;
case 2 : aProps[j].Value = new Short(NumberingType.ARABIC);
break;
}
// Put the updated PropertyValue sequence back into the
// NumberingRules service
xReplace.replaceByIndex (i, aProps);
break;
}
}
}
// Get the XParagraphCursor interface of our text cursor
XParagraphCursor xParaCursor = (XParagraphCursor) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XParagraphCursor.class, mxDocCursor);
// Go to the end of the document, then select the preceding paragraphs
mxDocCursor.gotoEnd(false);
xParaCursor.gotoPreviousParagraph false);
xParaCursor.gotoPreviousParagraph true);
xParaCursor.gotoPreviousParagraph true);

// Get the XPropertySet of the cursor's currently selected text
XPropertySet xCursorProps = (XPropertySet) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
XPropertySet.class, mxDocCursor);

// Set the updated Numbering rules to the cursor's property set
xCursorProps.setPropertyValue ("NumberingRules", xNum);
mxDocCursor.gotoEnd(false);

// Set the first paragraph that was inserted to a numbering level of 2 (thus it will
// have Arabic style numbering)
xParas[0].setPropertyValue ("NumberingLevel", new Short ((short) 2));

// Set the second paragraph that was inserted to a numbering level of 1 (thus it will
// have 'Chars Upper Letter' style numbering)
xParas[1].setPropertyValue ("NumberingLevel", new Short((short) 1));

// Set the third paragraph that was inserted to a numbering level of 0 (thus it will
// have 'Roman Upper' style numbering)
xParas[2].setPropertyValue("NumberingLevel", new Short((short) 0));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace (System.out);
}
}

Trying to execute the above method it is getting error as "Exception in thread "main" com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException:
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Job.remoteUnoRequestRaisedException(Job.java:177)
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.Job.execute(Job.java:143)
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.JobQueue.enter(JobQueue.java:335)
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.JobQueue.enter(JobQueue.java:304)
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environments.remote.JavaThreadPool.enter(JavaThreadPool.java:91)
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote.java_remote_bridge.sendRequest(java_remote_bridge.java:639)
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote.ProxyFactory$Handler.request(ProxyFactory.java:151)
at com.sun.star.lib.uno.bridges.java_remote.ProxyFactory$Handler.invoke(ProxyFactory.java:133)
at $Proxy13.setPropertyValue(Unknown Source)"

The error is at setting the Numbering to xProps array is at ,.........

// Set the first paragraph that was inserted to a numbering level of 2 (thus it will
// have Arabic style numbering)
xParas[0].setPropertyValue ("NumberingLevel", new Short ((short) 2));

// Set the second paragraph that was inserted to a numbering level of 1 (thus it will
// have 'Chars Upper Letter' style numbering)
xParas[1].setPropertyValue ("NumberingLevel", new Short((short) 1));

// Set the third paragraph that was inserted to a numbering level of 0 (thus it will
// have 'Roman Upper' style numbering)
xParas[2].setPropertyValue("NumberingLevel", new Short((short) 0));