<html> <head> <title>Service TypeDescriptionManager</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../idl.css"> </head> <body> <div id="adc-idlref"> <a name="_top_"> </a><table class="navimain" border="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td class="navimain"><a href="../module-ix.html" class="navimain">Overview</a></td> <td class="navimain"><a href="module-ix.html" class="navimain">Module</a></td> <td class="navimain"><a href="TypeDescriptionManager-xref.html" class="navimain">Use</a></td> <td class="navimainnone">Devguide</td> <td class="navimain"><a href="../../../../index-files/index-1.html" class="navimain">Index</a></td> </tr> </table> <table class="navisub" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="navisub">Included Services</td> <td class="navisub"><a href="#ExportedInterfaces" class="navisub">Exported Interfaces</a></td> <td class="navisub">Properties' Summary</td> <td class="navisub">Properties' Details</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" class="title-table" style="margin-bottom:6pt;"> <tr> <td><p class="namechain"><a href="../../../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">::</a> <a href="../../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">com</a> :: <a href="../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">sun</a> :: <a href="../module-ix.html" class="namechain">star</a> :: <a href="module-ix.html" class="namechain">reflection</a> :: </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="title">service TypeDescriptionManager</td> </tr> <tr> <td><dl> <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> </dd> <dt><b>See also</b></dt> <dd><a href="TypeDescriptionProvider.html">TypeDescriptionProvider</a>, <a href="XTypeDescription.html">XTypeDescription</a></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <a name="ExportedInterfaces"/><table border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="subtitle"> <tr> <td class="subtitle" colspan="2">Exported Interfaces</td> </tr> <tr> <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"><dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>Interface to retrieve type descriptions. </dd> <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> </ul> <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> </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imsum_left">::com::sun::star::<a href="../container/module-ix.html">container</a>::<a href="../container/XSet.html">XSet</a></td> <td class="imsum_right"><dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>You can manually add or remove a providers via this interface. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> <tr> <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"><dl> <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. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imsum_left"><a href="XTypeDescriptionEnumerationAccess.html">XTypeDescriptionEnumerationAccess</a></td> <td class="imsum_right"><dl> <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> </dd> <dt><b/></dt> <dd/></dl> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <a href="#_top_">Top of Page</a><hr size="3"><p class="copyright" align="center">Copyright © 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p> </div> <!-- id="adc-idlref" --> </body> </html>