Environment for scripting LibreOffice with Python

dev.py

import uno
import sys

def createUnoService(id):
    ctx = getContext()
    return ctx.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(id, ctx)

def getContext():
    # get the uno component context from the PyUNO runtime
    localContext = uno.getComponentContext()

    # create the UnoUrlResolver
    resolver = localContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
                    "com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", localContext )

    # connect to the running office
    return resolver.resolve( "uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext" )

def getDesktop():
    ctx = getContext()
    # get the central desktop object
    return ctx.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext( "com.sun.star.frame.Desktop",ctx)
    
def getFrame():
  desktop = getDesktop()
  return desktop.getCurrentFrame();

def getModel():
    desktop = getDesktop()

    # access the current writer document
    return desktop.getCurrentComponent()

def lastException2String():
    (excType,excInstance,excTraceback) = sys.exc_info()
    ret = str(excType) + ": "+str(excInstance) + "\n" + \
          uno._uno_extract_printable_stacktrace( excTraceback )
    return ret

def printInterfaces(obj):
    """
    Thanks to Jamie Boyle https://documenthacker.wordpress.com
    """
    text = str(obj)
    interfacesBlock = [z for z in text.split(' ') if z.startswith('supportedInterfaces=')][0]
    interfaceNames = []
    for longName in interfacesBlock[interfacesBlock.find('{')+1:interfacesBlock.find('}')].split(','):
      interfaceName = longName[longName .rfind('.')+1:]
      if interfaceName[0]=='X':
          interfaceName = interfaceName[1:]
      
      interfaceNames.append(interfaceName)

    interfaceNames.sort() #Sort all the names alphabetically
    for interfaceName in interfaceNames:
      if interfaceName[0]=='X':
         print(interfaceName[1:])
      else:
         print(interfaceName)

def printObjectProperties(obj):
  #Get the properties
  properties = list(obj.getPropertySetInfo().getProperties())
  #Sort alphabetically by name
  properties.sort(key = lambda x:x.Name)
  longest_len = max([len(z.Name) for z in properties])
  for property in properties:
    print(property.Name.ljust(longest_len)+'  -'+str(property.Type))
 
 

push_macro.py

from zipfile import ZipFile
import shutil
import sys
import os

if len(sys.argv) < 3:
    print("Usage: {} scriptfile hostdocument".format(sys.argv[0]))
    exit()

MACRO_FILE = sys.argv[1]
DOCUMENT_FILE = sys.argv[2]
MANIFEST_PATH = 'META-INF/manifest.xml';
EMBED_PATH = 'Scripts/python/' + MACRO_FILE;

hasMeta = False
with ZipFile(DOCUMENT_FILE) as bundle:
    
    # grab the manifest
    manifest = []
    for rawLine in bundle.open('META-INF/manifest.xml'):
        line = rawLine.decode('utf-8');
        if MACRO_FILE in line:
            hasMeta = True
        if ('</manifest:manifest>' in line) and (hasMeta == False):
            for path in ['Scripts/','Scripts/python/', EMBED_PATH]:
                manifest.append('<manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="application/binary" manifest:full-path="{}"/>'.format(path))
        manifest.append(line)

    # remove the manifest and script file
    with ZipFile(DOCUMENT_FILE + '.tmp', 'w') as tmp:
        for item in bundle.infolist():
            buffer = bundle.read(item.filename)
            if (item.filename not in [MANIFEST_PATH, EMBED_PATH]):
                tmp.writestr(item, buffer)


# os.replace(DOCUMENT_FILE + '.tmp', DOCUMENT_FILE);  python 3.3+
os.remove(DOCUMENT_FILE);
shutil.move(DOCUMENT_FILE + '.tmp', DOCUMENT_FILE)

with ZipFile(DOCUMENT_FILE, 'a') as bundle:
    bundle.write(MACRO_FILE, EMBED_PATH)
    bundle.writestr(MANIFEST_PATH, ''.join(manifest))

print("Added the script {} to {}".format(MACRO_FILE, DOCUMENT_FILE))

speng.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

PROJECT_FOLDER="/Users/jannie/Workshop/speng"
SAMPLE_FOLDER="/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/python"
TEMPLATE_FOLDER="~/Library/Application\ Support/LibreOffice/4/user/template"
SCRIPT="scriptlight.py"
HOSTING_DOCUMENT="se.ott"

usage () {
   	echo "Usage: speng (start|run <function>|deploy|open)"
}

case "$1" in
start)
  /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --writer --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"
;;
run)
  /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Resources/python -c "import scriptlight; scriptlight.$2()"
;;
deploy)
  cd $PROJECT_FOLDER
  python push_macro.py $SCRIPT $HOSTING_DOCUMENT
;;
open)
   edit . $SAMPLE_FOLDER
;;
*)
    # test if script is sourced
    if [[ $0 = ${BASH_SOURCE} ]] ; then
        usage
    else
        cd $PROJECT_FOLDER
    fi
;;
esac