[Solved] Terminating an office instance cleanly

[_savage]

I've created a new office instance:

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soffice --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"

and then connected to it do do some work:

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local = uno.getComponentContext()                                       
resolver = local.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", local)
context = resolver.resolve("uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext")
desktop = context.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop", context)
document = desktop.loadComponentFromURL("file:///path/to/file.odt", "_blank", 0, ())

Now my question is: How do I shut down the whole process cleanly, so that I won't get the "Document recovery" dialog next time around I open office. For now I have something like this:

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document.dispose()
desktop.terminate()
# context.??                                                          
# resolver.??                                                         
# local.??                                                            
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)

[_savage]

Some supporting documentation is here and here.

At the moment I've changed the code to the following:

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if document.supportsService("com.sun.star.util.XCloseable") :
    document.close(True)
document.dispose()

[_savage]

This question has developed into an interesting thread on the LibreOffice mailing list overe here. I'm going to close this question here, and refer the interested reader to that thread

[NomNomistan]

Link doesnt work anymore

[robleyd]

Unfortunately that is the way of the internet. A few moments work with a search engine led me to https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/ from whence you might be able to find something relevant.