| Subject: | lacking functionality in getUserProperty and related methods |
| Date: | Wed, 7 May 2014 17:21:57 +0200 |
| To: | bug-OpenOffice-OODoc [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Peter Marksteiner <marksteinerp [...] gmail.com> |
Hello,
The suite of methods for retrieving user-defined properties in OpenOffice::OODoc::Meta lacks important functionality. Consider the following task: you want to retrieve the name, type and value of all user-defined properties.
Let $meta be a metadata object created by $meta = odfMeta(file => 'some_file');
$meta->getUserPropertyElements() gives a list of all user-defined properties. The elements of this list are property element objects.
Now I can feed such a property element to getUserProperty and to getUserPropertyElement. The former gives type and value, the latter is basically a noop since it returns the input object. Neither method gives the element name.
The problem can easily be solved using the deprecated user_defined() method, but not using the recommended methods.
Regards,
Peter
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