URL seems to be an unsupported one

[mattaspen]

Hi,

I spent a good part of my day trying to get the example "FirstLoadComponent.java" to work.

System: linux, CentOs 5

In March, I was able to get this example to run and refactored it into a mini application. At the time, I was using OO 2.3.1.
In April, I upgraded to OO 2.4.0 and, have returned to my project, but kept getting the error:

com.sun.star.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URL seems to be an unsupported one.

So, I revisited the 'examples' directory and started on trying to get "FirstLoadComponent.java" working as my 1st step.
The error/result was the same. The error happens on line 116 line:

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XComponent xSpreadsheetComponent = xComponentLoader.loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/scalc", "_blank", 0, loadProps);

I searched Google and the forums and the only post that I found that is remotely related to my problem is http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@udk.ope ... 00600.html, which states:

See http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/r ... lator.html and http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/r ... ToInternal. In short, OOo distinguishes between "internal" and "external" URIs, where Java's URIs are external, so code like

String path2 = com.sun.star.uri.ExternalUriReferenceTranslator.
create(context).translateToInternal(path);
if (path2.length() == 0 && path.length() != 0) {
throw new RuntimeException();
}


is needed to translate path into path2 before using it. (And that it worked in OOo 1.3 was by chance, not by design.)

So, I spent some time trying all of the possible combinations from this post (as well as hard-coding the various "url" possibilities (on linux as "internal" and "external")), but still kept getting the same error.

Since this example originally worked (as I stated above) in OO 2.3.1, I uninstalled 2.4.0 and re-installed 2.3.1.

Unfortunately, I keep getting the same error.

To my knowledge, nothing has changed on my box; as far as settings etc.

My question, then, is: what am I doing wrong and what is/are a possible solution(s)?

Thanks,
--MA

[acknak]

Moved to Macros & UNO API.

[mathew]

Not sure if I understand your problem, but I'm wondering if you are having a problem with Java's encoding of URLs.

I use this method to hack the uri returned by URI.toString()

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  /**
   * The {@link java.net.URI#toString()} method has a broken handling of file protocol.
   * The returned string starts file:/, when it should start file:///.
   *
   * @see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/uri.html
   * @see http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=31&threadID=671284
   */
  public static String uriToString (URI uri) {
    String s = uri.toString ();
    if ("file".equals (uri.getScheme ())) {
      return "file://" + s.substring (5);
    }
    else {
      return s;
    }
  }

[reparker2000]

I had the same error, and after staring at the URL awhile, I realized that I was using a filename that had blanks in it. If you're using an OS/filesystem which requires such a pathname or filename which has special characters in it to be quoted -- surrounded by double-quotes -- then your URL will fail unless you surround at least the portion which has special charactes in it with double-quotes...or you can change the special characters to "non-special" characters. For example, I changed my blanks to underscores, and the URL no longer failed.