Kexi/Plugins/Reports/CLI Export

Design document.

Details:

Add command line (CLI) support for exporting Kexi Reports.

General command line schema:

kexi --export report:NAME [--format=FORMAT] [--overwrite] [--open-after-export] [--output=FILE] project.kexi

Where:

NAME - report name (not caption), required
FORMAT: One of PDF, ODT, ODS, HTML, OLDHTML. Case-insensitive.
- The default format is PDF
- ODT means OpenDocument Text (available is Kexi has support for handling this format installed)
- ODS means OpenDocument Sheet (available is Kexi has support for handling this format installed)
- HTML means HTML web page with use of CSS and DIV elements
- OLDHTML means a traditional HTML web page with use of TABLE elements
--overwrite - if the destination file exists, overwrite it; off by default
--open-after-export - open associated file viewer after a successful export, e.g. for HTML web browser is used
FILE - output file
- If not specified, NAME.EXTENSION is used, where NAME is the report name and EXTENSION is an extension depending on the format, e.g. pdf for the PDF format
- Use "-" for standard output, useful for using in scripts; use wit hcare when multiple reports are listed in --export because the output will be concatenated
- Export will fail if FILE is specified and multiple reports are listed in --export
project.kexi - actual project to export from

Requirements

Nice to have: support export of multiple reports in one go by specifying, e.g. --export report:NAME1,NAME2,....
Nice to have: support regular expressions for NAME, e.g. --export "report:.*" for all reports or --export "report:a.*z" for reports with name starting with "a" and ending with "z"
- Note that " " should be added in the argument because otherwise * will be expanded by the shell.