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# UNO Services to Access the Configuration Database
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## Functional Overview
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This code parses the settings that are described in the `officecfg`
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directory, and provides a UNO API that code can use to set and get
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settings.
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## Source Overview
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configurationprovider.cxx
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configurationregistry.cxx
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defaultprovider.cxx
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services.cxx
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UNO service implementations.
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access.cxx
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childaccess.cxx
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rootaccess.cxx
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UNO objects passed to clients.
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components.cxx
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Central singleton that aggregates all data (reads in the XML files, manages
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modifications and global notifications).
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groupnode.cxx
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localizedpropertynode.cxx
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localizedvaluenode.cxx
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node.cxx
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propertynode.cxx
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setnode.cxx
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Internal representations of data nodes.
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parsemanager.cxx
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parser.hxx
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valueparser.cxx
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xcdparser.cxx
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xcsparser.cxx
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xcuparser.cxx
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xmldata.cxx
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XML file reading.
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modifications.cxx
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writemodfile.cxx
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Modification management.
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broadcaster.cxx
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Notification management.
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additions.hxx
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update.cxx
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Extension manager interface.
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data.cxx
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lock.cxx
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nodemap.cxx
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partial.cxx
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path.hxx
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type.cxx
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Utilities.
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## Some Implementation Notes
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### Mandatory Set Members
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- A set member can be marked as "mandatory," meaning that a member of that name
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must always be present in a set.
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- The above definition implies that calling replaceByName on a mandatory set
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member is OK.
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- The XCU format can contain `oor:mandatory` attributes on nodes. (The XCS format
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does not support them. In the `registrymodifications` file, `oor:mandatory`
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attributes should never be needed, as being mandatory cannot be controlled via
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the UNO API.) The XCU reading code only evaluates the `oor:mandatory` attribute
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for set members, and ignores it everywhere else.
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- Only true sets support mandatory members. A localized property for the "`*`"
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locale, though acting much like a set, does not support mandatory members.
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- The LibreOffice Registry Format document claims that group extension
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properties are implicitly mandatory, but at least the new configmgr code does
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not treat them like that (i.e., they can be removed again).
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- For simplicity, `setMandatory/getMandatory` are available as virtual functions
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at the base `Node`, even though they can only make sense for `GroupNodes` and
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SetNodes that are set members. The default `getMandatory` implementation returns
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`NO_LAYER`, meaning `oor:mandatory` is not set to true in any layer. (Returning
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`NO_LAYER` simplifies the code, e.g., `removeByName` does not have to check whether
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`getMandatory` is called on a member of a true set to decide whether to forbid
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removal.)
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- When committing changes (made through the UNO API), the "mandatory" status of
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inserted nodes must be updated (in case the insert is due to a `replaceByName`, or
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the "mandatory" flag was added by a concurrent modification of a lower layer).
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Also, for to-be-removed nodes, removal is ignored for (newly; due to concurrent
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modification of a lower layer) mandatory nodes (but still recorded in
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`registrymodifications`, so may take effect once the lower layer addition is
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removed again---whether or not that is a good idea).
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### XcuParser Modification Recording
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- `XcuParser` records modifications when reading user layer data
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(`valueParser_.getLayer() == Data::NO_LAYER`).
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- `oor:finalized and `oor:mandatory` attributes cannot be set via the UNO API, so
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it is assumed that user layer data does not contain them (for one, they are not
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written by `writeModFile`; for another, the logic to record modifications expects
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a `locprop(modify,fuse)` to be followed by one or more `value(fuse,remove)`, which
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would not necessarily be true if the `locprop` were only present in the user layer
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data to flag it as finalized).
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- The logic to record modifications considers the top of the XML element stack.
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In the following list of all possible cases, items marked with an asterisk are
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recorded:
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... group(modify,fuse) - group(modify,fuse) - ...
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... group(modify,fuse) - set(modify,fuse) - ...
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... group(modify,fuse) - *prop(modify,fuse,replace) - value(fuse)
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... group(modify,fuse) - *prop(remove)
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... group(modify,fuse) - locprop(modify,fuse) - *value(fuse)
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... group(modify,fuse) - locprop(modify,fuse) - *value(remove)
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... group(modify,fuse) - *locprop(replace) ...
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... set(modify,fuse,replace) - group(modify/fuse) - ...
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... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *group(replace/fuse) - ...
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... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *group(remove)
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... set(modify,fuse,replace) - set(modify/fuse) - ...
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... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *set(replace/fuse) - ...
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... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *set(remove)
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Legend:
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"...": zero or more further items
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"- ...": one or more further items
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"modify,fuse" etc.: any of those operations
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"modify/fuse": a modify or a fuse on an existing member
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"replace/fuse": a replace or a fuse on a non-existing member
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