Appending_documents

To load one writer document from URL and append it after another a ITextDocument , you can use the insertDocument method.

	private void appendDocument(String url) {
		
		try {
			<THEDOCUMENT>.getViewCursorService().getViewCursor().getTextCursorFromStart().insertDocument(url) ;
		} catch (NOAException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} 
		
	}

The method above might work for most cases, but sometimes it results in something ugly. The following snippet shows how to copy the content of one document into another.

This might become integrated in next NOA version somehow, but not sure (Markus Krüger).

   public static void main(String[] args) {
      ...
      ...
      IDocumentService documentService = ...;

      String template = "template.odt";
      String target = "target.odt";
      
      //load source
      IDocument documentTemplate = documentService.loadDocument(template,
          DocumentDescriptor.DEFAULT_HIDDEN);
      ITextDocument textDocumentTemplate = (ITextDocument) documentTemplate;
      //marks the text in the document to be used as source
      IViewCursor templateViewCursor = textDocumentTemplate.getViewCursorService().getViewCursor();
      templateViewCursor.getPageCursor().jumpToEndOfPage();
      ITextRange end = templateViewCursor.getTextCursorFromEnd().getEnd();
      templateViewCursor.getPageCursor().jumpToStartOfPage();
      templateViewCursor.goToRange(end, true);

      //load target
      IDocumentDescriptor descriptor = DocumentDescriptor.DEFAULT;
      descriptor.setAsTemplate(true);
      IDocument document = documentService.loadDocument(target, descriptor);
      ITextDocument textDocument = (ITextDocument) document;

      //go to end of target document
      IViewCursor viewCursor = textDocument.getViewCursorService().getViewCursor();
      IPageCursor pageCursor = viewCursor.getPageCursor();     
      pageCursor.jumpToEndOfPage();

      //maybe insert a page break before
      ITextCursor textCursor = viewCursor.getTextCursorFromEnd();
      textCursor.insertPageBreak();

      //copy from soruce to target
      copy(textDocumentTemplate, textDocument);
  }

  private static void copy(ITextDocument sourceDoc, ITextDocument targetDoc) throws Exception {
    // the controllers 
    XController xController_sourceDoc = sourceDoc.getXTextDocument().getCurrentController();
    XController xController_targetDoc = targetDoc.getXTextDocument().getCurrentController();
    // getting the data supplier of our source doc 
    XTransferableSupplier xTransferableSupplier_sourceDoc = (XTransferableSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTransferableSupplier.class,
        xController_sourceDoc);
    // saving the selected contents 
    XTransferable xTransferable = xTransferableSupplier_sourceDoc.getTransferable();
    // getting the data supplier of our target doc 
    XTransferableSupplier xTransferableSupplier_targetDoc = (XTransferableSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTransferableSupplier.class,
        xController_targetDoc);
    // inserting the source document there 
    xTransferableSupplier_targetDoc.insertTransferable(xTransferable);
  }

previously, before version 2.0.8 of NOA, you had to use something like this (source: http://ubion.ion.ag/mainForumFolder/noa_forum/0022?b_start:int=0#0006):

	public static final boolean dispatch(XDispatchProvider dispatchProvider, String command, PropertyValue[] params)
	{
		URL url = new URL();
		url.Complete = ".uno:" + command;
		url.Main = ".uno:" + command;
		url.Path = command;
		url.Protocol = ".uno:";
		XDispatch dispatch = dispatchProvider.queryDispatch(url, "", 0);
		if(dispatch != null)
		{
			dispatch.dispatch(url, params);
			return true;
		} else
		{
			return false;
		}
	} 

	private void appendDocument(String url) {
		XTextDocument xText = <THEDOCUMENT>.getXTextDocument();
		XController view = xText.getCurrentController();
		XTextViewCursorSupplier supp = (XTextViewCursorSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XTextViewCursorSupplier.class, view );
		XPageCursor cursor = (XPageCursor) UnoRuntime.queryInterface( XPageCursor.class, supp.getViewCursor());
		cursor.jumpToLastPage();
		cursor.jumpToEndOfPage(); 
		XFrame frame = parentWizard.getDocument().getXTextDocument().getCurrentController().getFrame();
		XDispatchProvider xDispatchProvider = (XDispatchProvider)UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XDispatchProvider.class, frame);
		
		PropertyValue params[] = new PropertyValue[1];
		params[0] = new PropertyValue();
		params[0].Name = "Name";
		params[0].Value = url;
		
		dispatch( xDispatchProvider, "InsertDoc", params );
	}

This manual way you can still use if you have particular requirements, e.g. if you want to attach an imported document, like a HTML one, you could use

		PropertyValue params[] = new PropertyValue[2];
		params[0] = new PropertyValue();
		params[0].Name = "Name";
		params[0].Value = url;

		params[1] = new PropertyValue();
		params[1].Name = "Filter";
		params[1].Value = "HTML (StarWriter)";