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27
28Source Overview
29===============
30
31configurationprovider.cxx
32configurationregistry.cxx
33defaultprovider.cxx
34services.cxx
35 UNO service implementations.
36
37access.cxx
38childaccess.cxx
39rootaccess.cxx
40 UNO objects passed to clients.
41
42components.cxx
43 Central singleton that aggregates all data (reads in the XML files, manages
44 modifications and global notifications).
45
46groupnode.cxx
47localizedpropertynode.cxx
48localizedvaluenode.cxx
49node.cxx
50propertynode.cxx
51setnode.cxx
52 Internal representations of data nodes.
53
54parsemanager.cxx
55parser.hxx
56valueparser.cxx
57xcdparser.cxx
58xcsparser.cxx
59xcuparser.cxx
60xmldata.cxx
61 XML file reading.
62
63modifications.cxx
64writemodfile.cxx
65 Modification management.
66
67broadcaster.cxx
68 Notification management.
69
70additions.hxx
71update.cxx
72 Extension manager interface.
73
74data.cxx
75lock.cxx
76nodemap.cxx
77partial.cxx
78path.hxx
79type.cxx
80 Utilities.
81
82
83Mandatory Set Members
84=====================
85
86- A set member can be marked as "mandatory," meaning that a member of that name
87must always be present in a set.
88
89- The above definition implies that calling replaceByName on a mandatory set
90member is OK.
91
92- The XCU format can contain oor:mandatory attributes on nodes.  (The XCS format
93does not support them.  In the registrymodifications file, oor:mandatory
94attributes should never be needed, as being mandatory cannot be controlled via
95the UNO API.)  The XCU reading code only evaluates the oor:mandatory attribute
96for set members, and ignores it everywhere else.
97
98- Only true sets support mandatory members.  A localized property for the "*"
99locale, though acting much like a set, does not support mandatory members.
100
101- The OpenOffice.org Registry Format document claims that group extension
102properties are implicitly mandatory, but at least the new configmgr code does
103not treat them like that (i.e., they can be removed again).
104
105- For simplicity, setMandatory/getMandatory are available as virtual functions
106at the base Node, even though they can only make sense for GroupNodes and
107SetNodes that are set members.  The default getMandatory implementation returns
108NO_LAYER, meaning oor:mandatory is not set to true in any layer.  (Returning
109NO_LAYER simplifies the code, e.g., removeByName does not have to check whether
110getMandatory is called on a member of a true set to decide whether to forbid
111removal.)
112
113- When committing changes (made through the UNO API), the "mandatory" status of
114inserted nodes must be updated (in case the insert is due to a replaceByName, or
115the "mandatory" flag was added by a concurrent modification of a lower layer).
116Also, for to-be-removed nodes, removal is ignored for (newly; due to concurrent
117modification of a lower layer) mandatory nodes (but still recorded in
118registrymodifications, so may take effect once the lower layer addition is
119removed again---whether or not that is a good idea).
120
121
122XcuParser Modification Recording
123================================
124
125- XcuParser records modifications when reading user layer data
126(valueParser_.getLayer() == Data::NO_LAYER).
127
128- oor:finalized and oor:mandatory attributes cannot be set via the UNO API, so
129it is assumed that user layer data does not contain them (for one, they are not
130written by writeModFile; for another, the logic to record modifications expects
131a locprop(modify,fuse) to be followed by one or more value(fuse,remove), which
132would not necessarily be true if the locprop were only present in the user layer
133data to flag it as finalized).
134
135- The logic to record modifications considers the top of the XML element stack.
136In the following list of all possible cases, items marked with an asterisk are
137recorded:
138 ... group(modify,fuse) - group(modify,fuse) - ...
139 ... group(modify,fuse) - set(modify,fuse) - ...
140 ... group(modify,fuse) - *prop(modify,fuse,replace) - value(fuse)
141 ... group(modify,fuse) - *prop(remove)
142 ... group(modify,fuse) - locprop(modify,fuse) - *value(fuse)
143 ... group(modify,fuse) - locprop(modify,fuse) - *value(remove)
144 ... group(modify,fuse) - *locprop(replace) ...
145 ... set(modify,fuse,replace) - group(modify/fuse) - ...
146 ... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *group(replace/fuse) - ...
147 ... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *group(remove)
148 ... set(modify,fuse,replace) - set(modify/fuse) - ...
149 ... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *set(replace/fuse) - ...
150 ... set(modify,fuse,replace) - *set(remove)
151Legend: "...": zero or more further items
152        "- ...": one or more further items
153        "modify,fuse" etc.: any of those operations
154        "modify/fuse": a modify or a fuse on an existing member
155        "replace/fuse": a replace or a fuse on a non-existing member
156