cloudooo 1.2.2

Install Cloudooo
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$ python2.6 setup.py install

Warnings:
- you must have installed setuptools>=0.6c11 in this python.

Install LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org
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Install LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org.
- http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
- http://download.openoffice.org/

Create Configuration File
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The configuration file is used to start the application using paster.
$ cp ./cloudooo/samples/samples.conf . # Copy to current folder

The next step is define some attributes in cloudooo.conf:
- working_path - folder to run the application. This folder need be created.
- uno_path - folder where UNO library is installed (ex. /opt/libreoffice/basis-link/program/)
- soffice_binary_path - folder where soffice.bin is installed (ex. /opt/libreoffice/program/)

Run Application
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$ paster serve ./cloudooo.conf

or run as a daemon:

$ paster serve ./cloudoo.conf --daemon


Stop Application
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$ kill -1 PASTER_PID

Warning: always use SIGHUP because only with this signal all processes are
stopped correctly.

Cloudooo Description
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- XMLRPC + WSGI will be one bridge for easy access to LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org. This will implement one XMLRPC server into WSGI (Paster).

- PyUno is used to connect to LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org stated with open socket. The features will be handled all by pyuno.

- Only a process will have access to LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org by time.

- All clients receive the same object(proxy) when connects with XMLRPC Server.

Managing LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org process

- start 'soffice.bin';
- Pyuno start 'soffice.bin' processes and the communication is through sockets;
- 'soffice.bin' processes run in brackground;
- control 'soffice.bin';
- If the socket lose the connection, cloudooo kills the process, restartes processes and submit again the file;

XMLRPC Server - XMLRPC + WSGI
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- Send document to 'soffice.bin' and return the document converted with metadata;
- XMLRPC receives a file and connects to 'soffice.bin' process by pyuno;
- The pyuno opens a new document, write, add metadata and returns the document edited or converted to xmlrpc and it return the document to the user;
- When finalize the use of 'soffice.bin', should make sure that it was finalized;
- Export to another format;
- Invite document and return metadata only;
- Edit metadata of the document;
- Problems and possible solution
- 'soffice.bin' is stalled;
- finalize the process, start 'soffice.bin' and submit the document again(without restart the cloudooo);
- 'soffice.bin' is crashed;
- finalize the process, verify if all the process was killed, start 'soffice.bin' and submit the document again(without restart the cloudooo)
- 'soffice.bin' received the document and stalled;
- if 'soffice.bin' isn't responding, kill the process and start
- The document that was sent is corrupt;
- write in log the error and verify that the process aren't in memory

1.2.2 (2010-02-07)
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- No longer use Xvfb.

1.2.1 (2010-01-21)
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- Improve ERP5 compatibility.

1.2.0 (2010-01-19)
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- Support LibreOffice3.3rc3.

1.1.0 (2010-01-13)
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- Refactor runCloudOOoUnitTest.py to control better the daemon process
- Use argparse instead of optparse
- Refactor tests to use boolean asserts to validate True or False.
- Use python-magic to validate the output documents according to mimetype.
- Change folder structure of cloudooo to put handler, mimemapper, helpers
related to handler in same folder than handler.
- Refactor code to use json instead of jsonpickle.
- Add getTableItem, getTableItemList and getTableMatrix for OOGranulate
- Add getParagraphItemList and getParagraphItem for OOGranulate
- Add getImageItemList and getImage for OOGranulate
- Add OdfDocument
- Add granulate interface.

1.0.9
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- use pkg_resources to get helper scripts.
- move internal scripts to helper folder.
- removed cloudooo as dependency of internal scripts.
- modified way that the filters of OpenOffice.org are passed.

1.0.8
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- Remove all attributes that works with cloudooo script paths.
- Use all scripts according to your python eggs.
- Fixed problem when a spreadsheet will be converted to html.

1.0.7
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- Remove entry points, treat those as ordinary files.
- Search all script files using pkg_resources.