Hi Stephan, thanks for the explanation- it makes things clear.
Would you happen to know if running an uno server or connecting to it, is affected by this? Background: Robinson Tyron put up on github recently a python utility to convert xls sheets to csv using headless option in response to another post https://github.com/colonelqubit/libreconverter I ran into issues running libreconverter.py It works with 4.0.0.3 but fails for 4.2 with error about whitespace in oovbaapi.rdb I tried viewing the file and had error, so posted this issue. I don't have immediate need to see .rdb files thanks Neeraj On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sberg...@redhat.com>wrote: > On 12/10/2013 05:18 AM, Neeraj Rai wrote: > >> I pulled a 4.2 version on Nov 23 and again today. Both seem to show this >> behaviour. >> The regview doesn't show the rdb file >> >> $./instdir/ure/bin/regview ./instdir/program/types/oovbaapi.rdb >> open registry "./instdir/program/types/oovbaapi.rdb" failed >> >> I created an rdb file using idlc and regmerge, which has no such issue. >> I suspect this is causing some other unexplained issues for me on centos >> 6.2. >> Has anyone else run into this ? >> Any advise on how to approach would be appreciated. >> > > Beginning with LO 4.1, we move away from the old .rdb format for UNOIDL > type data and gradually replace it with a new format (that is more compact > and faster to process). > > The LO SDK still uses the old format for now. If you build .rdb files for > external applications or LO extensions, you will do so with the existing > SDK tools (idlc, regmerge, regview) and the generated files are in the old > format. > > The .rdb files that are included in LO itself (ure/share/misc/types.rdb, > program/types/offapi.rdb, program/types/oovbaapi.rdb) already use the new > format since LO 4.1. This should be mostly transparent to SDK users, as > most of the tools that operate on .rdb files (cppumaker, javamaker, etc.) > will accept both the old and the new format as input. (And at runtime, the > URE and LO of course also accept both formats now.) > > Only the low-level tools regmerge and regview have not been updated, they > continue to only work with the old format. However, beginning with LO 4.2, > there is a new tool unoidl-read to convert any .rdb file (both old and new > format) into readable form. For now, it is only a build-time tool (in > workdir; and if you call it manually you need to extend LD_LIBRARY_PATH so > it finds its libs), and you call it with the rdb file to translate, > preceded by any rdb files necessary to resolve types mentioned in later rdb > files. > > That is, to show the content of instdir/program/types/oovbaapi.rdb on > Linux, do > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=instdir/ure/lib workdir/LinkTarget/Executable/unoidl-read >> instdir/ure/share/misc/types.rdb instdir/program/types/offapi.rdb >> instdir/program/types/oovbaapi.rdb >> > > (And yes, I really need to write all this down somewhere...) > > Stephan > -- ===== Intuition - is the inability to figure out the facts on which we based the decision.
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