I've looked at the bootstrap() function in Bootstrap.java and
a similar function for Python.
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#
# Translated to python from "Bootstrap.java" by Kim Kulak
#
import os
import random
from sys import platform
from time import sleep
import uno
from com.sun.star.connection import NoConnectException
from com.sun.star.uno import Exception as UnoException
class BootstrapException(UnoException):
pass
def bootstrap():
"""Bootstrap OOo and PyUNO Runtime.
The soffice process is started opening a named pipe of random name, then the local context is used
to access the pipe. This function directly returns the remote component context, from whereon you can
get the ServiceManager by calling getServiceManager() on the returned object.
"""
try:
# soffice script used on *ix, Mac; soffice.exe used on Windoof
sOffice = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "soffice")
if platform.startswith("win"):
sOffice += ".exe"
# Generate a random pipe name.
random.seed()
sPipeName = "uno" + str(random.random())[2:]
# Start the office proces, don't check for exit status since an exception is caught anyway if the office terminates unexpectedly.
cmdArray = (sOffice, "-nologo", "-nodefault", "".join(["-accept=pipe,name=", sPipeName, ";urp;"]))
os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, sOffice, cmdArray)
# ---------
xLocalContext = uno.getComponentContext()
resolver = xLocalContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
"com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", xLocalContext)
sConnect = "".join(["uno:pipe,name=", sPipeName, ";urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext"])
# Wait until an office is started, but loop only nLoop times (can we do this better???)
nLoop = 20
while True:
try:
xContext = resolver.resolve(sConnect)
break
except NoConnectException:
nLoop -= 1
if nLoop <= 0:
raise BootstrapException("Cannot connect to soffice server.", None)
sleep(0.5) # Sleep 1/2 second.
except BootstrapException:
raise
except Exception, e: # Any other exception
raise BootstrapException("Caught exception " + str(e), None)
return xContext