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<dt><b>Description</b></dt>
<dd>This service manages type descriptions and acts as a central access point
to every type description. It delegates calls for demanded types to
subsequent
<a href="TypeDescriptionProvider.html">TypeDescriptionProvider</a>s
and may cache type descriptions.<br>
Using cppuhelper's bootstrapping routines bootstrapping an initial
component context, there is a singleton accessable via key
"/singletons/com.sun.star.reflection.theTypeDescriptionManager".
This singleton object is hooked into the C UNO runtime typelib and
lives until the context is shut down.<br>
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<dt><b>See also</b></dt>
<dd><a href="TypeDescriptionProvider.html">TypeDescriptionProvider</a>, <a href="XTypeDescription.html">XTypeDescription</a></dd>
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<td class="imsum_left">::com::sun::star::<a href="../container/module-ix.html">container</a>::<a href="../container/XHierarchicalNameAccess.html">XHierarchicalNameAccess</a></td>
<td class="imsum_right"><p>Interface to retrieve type descriptions.
(<a href="#XHierarchicalNameAccess">details</a>)</p>
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<td class="imsum_right"><p>You can manually add or remove a providers via this interface.
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<td class="imsum_left">::com::sun::star::<a href="../lang/module-ix.html">lang</a>::<a href="../lang/XComponent.html">XComponent</a></td>
<td class="imsum_right"><p>Interface to signal shutdown to the manager.<br>
This signals all providers to shut down, because usually each provider
references its manager, listening for disposing events.
(<a href="#XComponent">details</a>)</p>
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<td class="imsum_left"><a href="XTypeDescriptionEnumerationAccess.html">XTypeDescriptionEnumerationAccess</a></td>
<td class="imsum_right"><p>Interface for creating enumerations for type descriptions supported
by this <a href="TypeDescriptionManager.html">TypeDescriptionManager</a>
(<a href="#XTypeDescriptionEnumerationAccess">details</a>)</p>
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<dt><b>Description</b></dt>
<dd>Interface to retrieve type descriptions.
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<dd><ul>
<li>Names are given in dotted notation, for example
<code>"com.sun.star.uno.XInterface"</code>.</li>
<li>Sequence types are accessible via
<code>"[]<var>ComponentType</var>"</code></li>
<li>Instantiated polymorphic struct types are accessible via
<code>"<var>StructType</var><<!--
--><var>Parameter</var><sub>1</sub>,…,<!--
--><var>Parameter</var><sub><var>n</var></sub>>"</code>.</li>
<li>Members of interface types are accessible via
<code>"<var>InterfaceType</var>::<var>Member</var>"</code>.</li>
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<p>The returned values are of interface type
<a href="XTypeDescription.html">XTypeDescription</a>.</p>
<p>Even though the name of this interface suggests that the used type
names are hierarchic, this need not be the case. (For example, consider
the names of instantiated polymorphic struct types, like
<code>"Struct<long>"</code>.)</p>
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<dt><b>Description</b></dt>
<dd>You can manually add or remove a providers via this interface.
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<dt><b>Usage Restrictions</b></dt>
<dd><i>optional</i></dd>
<dt><b>Description</b></dt>
<dd>Interface to signal shutdown to the manager.<br>
This signals all providers to shut down, because usually each provider
references its manager, listening for disposing events.
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<dt><b>Usage Restrictions</b></dt>
<dd><i>optional</i></dd>
<dt><b>Description</b></dt>
<dd>Interface for creating enumerations for type descriptions supported
by this <a href="TypeDescriptionManager.html">TypeDescriptionManager</a>
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<dt><b>Since </b></dt>
<dd>OOo 1.1.2 </dd>
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