Location of Installed Extensions

OpenOffice.org Developer's Guide

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• Extension Manager

• Extension Repositories
• The Active Extension
• Updating Extensions
• Processing Extensions
• Packaging Notes For Bundled Extensions
• Deployment Items
• Installing Extensions for All or a Single User
• Extension Manager in OpenOffice.org
• unopkg
• Location of Installed Extensions
• Extension Layers

• Checklist for Writing Extensions
• File Format
• description.xml

• Description of XML Elements
• Localized XML Elements
• Example

• Display Name
• Icon
• Extension Description
• Extension Identifiers
• Extension Versions
• Target Platform
• Simple License
• Dependencies
• Publisher Information
• System Integration
• Online Update of Extensions

• Running Online - Update
• Concept
• Example Scenario for Providing Updates
• Migration of Update Information
• Description of the Update Information
• Description of Atom Feed
• Examples

• Options Dialog

• Creating the GUI of the Options Page
• Saving and Reading Data for the Options Page
• Defining the Usage of Options Pages

• Adding a Leaf to an Existing Node
• Adding Several Leaves
• Grouping of Leaves
• Adding Nodes
• Adding Several Nodes
• Absolute Position of Leaves
• Grouping of Nodes
• Assigning Nodes to Modules
• Defining a Module
• Absolute Position of Nodes

• The Options Dialog of the Extension Manager

• Help Content

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Sometimes an extension developer needs to know the path to the root of his installed extension e.g. to load some additional data. You can use the singleton PackageInformationProvider to get an URL for an installed extension with a given Extension Identifier. For more information about Extension Identifiers see Extension Identifiers. For more information see the singleton com.sun.star.deployment.PackageInformationProvider and its interface com.sun.star.deployment.XPackageInformationProvider.

Here is a C++ example:

  ...
  namespace css = com::sun::star;
  css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > mxContext;
  ...
  css::uno::Reference< css::deployment::XPackageInformationProvider >
  xInfoProvider( css::deployment::PackageInformationProvider::get( mxContext ) );
 
  // "MY_PACKAGE_ID" is the identifier of the package whose location we want
  rtl::OUString sLocation = xInfoProvider->getPackageLocation( 
  rtl::OUString::createFromAscii( "MY_PACKAGE_ID" ) );
  ...

You will find a Java example at page : ReadFilesFromOxt

Here is an example in Basic:

Dim pip As Object, extensionLocation As String
Const extensionIdentifier = "org.toto.test3"
 
pip = GetDefaultContext.getByName("/singletons/com.sun.star.deployment.PackageInformationProvider")
extensionLocation = pip.getPackageLocation(extensionIdentifier)
' display a human readable address
MsgBox(ConvertFromURL(extensionLocation))

The package location address finishes like this : /extensionName.oxt Remember it is a folder, not the extension package itself!

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