Class LoEvents

LoEvents is a singleton class.

Because this is a singleton class it will continue to fire events as long as your running code has one reference to LoEvents.

Think of LoEvents as being global scoped.

Events can be removed via the remove() method. It is not possible to remove OooDev built in events.

Perhaps a better solution to subscribe to event is the Events class as it has a local scope.

Warning

Subscribing to events on this class can have unexpected side effects. Such as subscribed events being triggered when you thought you code was finished running.

In most case the it is recommended to use Class Events to hook events.

Each time OooDev internally runs a print command a event is raised with CancelEventArgs as the args parameter. If that event is hooked then the print can be canceled.

In the following example all OooDev internal print commands are canceled.

Example

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
from typing import Any, cast

from ooodev.loader.lo import Lo
from ooodev.office.write import Write
from ooodev.utils.info import Info
from ooodev.wrapper.break_context import BreakContext
from ooodev.events.gbl_named_event import GblNamedEvent
from ooodev.events.args.cancel_event_args import CancelEventArgs
from ooodev.events.lo_events import LoEvents


def args_add(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
    parser.add_argument(
        "-f",
        "--file",
        help="File path of input file to convert",
        action="store",
        dest="file_path",
        required=True,
    )

def on_lo_print(source: Any, e: CancelEventArgs) -> None:
    e.cancel = True

def main() -> int:
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="main")
    args_add(parser=parser)
    args = parser.parse_args()

    # hook ooodev internal printing event
    LoEvents().on(GblNamedEvent.PRINTING, on_lo_print)

    with BreakContext(Lo.Loader(Lo.ConnectSocket(headless=True))) as loader:

        fnm = cast(str, args.file_path)

        try:
            doc = Lo.open_doc(fnm=fnm, loader=loader)
        except Exception:
            print(f"Could not open '{fnm}'")
            raise BreakContext.Break

        if Info.is_doc_type(obj=doc, doc_type=Lo.Service.WRITER):
            text_doc = Write.get_text_doc(doc=doc)
            cursor = Write.get_cursor(text_doc)
            text = Write.get_all_text(cursor)
            print("Text Content".center(50, "-"))
            print(text)
            print("-" * 50)
        else:
            print("Extraction unsupported for this doc type")
        Lo.close_doc(doc)

    return 0


if __name__ == "__main__":
    raise SystemExit(main())