[dev] Generating a simple document

I'm started to explore the odftoolkit some days before and I'm curious, 
whether I could generate a simple invoice using some existing data.

The invoice-document starts with an "address"-paragraph, followed by a 
table with product-items, again followed by a paragraph with additional 
information.

I began with the following steps:

1) loading an existing template-document:

        OdfTextDocument outputDocument 
=OdfTextDocument.loadDocument(templateFile);
        OdfFileDom contentDom = outputDocument.getContentDom();

Is this the right beginning? I also found:

OdfDocument anotherOutputDocument = OdfDocument.loadDocument(templateFile);

2) adding the address:

           outputDocument.newParagraph(address.toString());

3) adding a table:

                OdfTable table = OdfTable.newTable(outputDocument, 
positions.size(), 5);

4) adding the product-items:


                for (Position position : positions) {
                    OdfTableRow rowForPosition = 
table.getRowByIndex(position.getPos());
                    // first-cell in row
                    OdfTableCell cellPosNr = 
rowForPositionIndex.getCellByIndex(0);
                    cellPosNr.setStringValue(position.getPos());
                    // Icon (I would like to include a jpg):
                    String strFile = position.getImageFilePath("icon");
                    File imageFile = new File(strFile);
                    if(imageFile.exists()) {
                       OdfTableCell cellIcon = 
rowForPositionIndex.getCellByIndex(1);
                       OdfDrawImage image = new OdfDrawImage(contentDom);
                      image.newImage(new URI(strFile));
                      cellIcon.getOdfElement().appendChild(image);
                    }
                    // some other stuff..

5) returning the document.

I'm a little bit puzzled, since the doku says, that "OdfTableCell" is 
deprecated, but I read at the mail-archive: "deprecated afterwards in 
favour of the
Simple API and now likely being enabled again".

In the end, I got an odt-document and was able to open it using libreoffice.

Unfortunately I didn't succeed to add the image to the table cell. Can 
you give me an advice, how this should be implemented?

And a more general question: Is this the way, the ofttoolkit should be used?




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