Re: Association between ToC index object and its paragraph content

On 12.12.2017 14:22, Jens Tröger wrote:
> Michael, I the case you describe would I not see the same UNO object address for the same 
> paragraph in the document? But iterating over the ToC’s paragraphs as described previously in 
> this thread, I get for the index view:
>
>     pyuno object (com.sun.star.text.XTextContent)0x7feddb8d2638{implementationName=SwXParagraph, 
> … }
>
> and then for the global document view:
>
>     pyuno object (com.sun.star.text.XTextContent)0x7fedd9f5f598{implementationName=SwXParagraph, 
> … }
>
> for the same first entry paragraph in the ToC. In fact, if I instantiate the ToC’s text range 
> three times, then I get three different objects for the first paragraph:
>
>     pyuno object (com.sun.star.text.XTextContent)0x7fc6b1d41188
>     pyuno object (com.sun.star.text.XTextContent)0x7fc6b1e66968
>     pyuno object (com.sun.star.text.XTextContent)0x7fc6b430e288
>
> Do paragraphs have another unique identifier that associates these different instances as objects 
> representing the same document paragraph?

do you retain a reference to the paragraphs somewhere?  Writer itself
doesn't keep the SwXParagraph alive, so if your extension drops the last
reference to it then it will be deleted and a new one created the next time.