Use proper type in expert config dialog

In preparation for proper editing support for the different types.

Change-Id: I7044ff100c9bfcca5fa8894ff4525a1aac692796
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/158028
Tested-by: Jenkins
Reviewed-by: Samuel Mehrbrodt <samuel.mehrbrodt@allotropia.de>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/configuration/XDocumentation.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/configuration/XDocumentation.idl
index 3bf3c638b141..2ed430a72854 100644
--- a/offapi/com/sun/star/configuration/XDocumentation.idl
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/configuration/XDocumentation.idl
@@ -27,6 +27,18 @@ interface XDocumentation {
      */
     string getDescriptionByHierarchicalName( [in] string aName )
             raises( com::sun::star::container::NoSuchElementException );
+
+    /** @returns
+            the type for the requested object
+
+        @param aName
+            the hierarchical name of the object.
+
+        @throws NoSuchElementException
+            if an element under aName does not exist.
+     */
+    string getTypeByHierarchicalName( [in] string aName )
+            raises( com::sun::star::container::NoSuchElementException );
 };
 
 }; }; }; };