MCP server with multiple open writer documents, but only edit one?

[slu-010101]

Hi,

maybe a stupid question, but how to work with MCP if multiple writer documents are open and I only like to edit one of them?

Sam

[KeithCu]

That's a great question. I should clarify in the README.

The active document is by default. Right now, you can pass in a header:

"headers": {
"X-Document-URL": "file:///home/you/doc.odt"
}

There could be other ways of doing it, can you use that?

[slu-010101]

There could be other ways of doing it, can you use that?

For me yes, but not for my users :)

[KeithCu]

Dang, well I could add a file parameter to every core tool call, but I was trying to avoid that and have the code and API be the same between the regular and MCP case. I could probably build a wrapper that adds an extra parameter without too much work actually, but it becomes Python magic which makes the code even more complicated.

I believe another LO extension, Nelson-MCP uses the HTTP headers and it seems to work for their users.

I'll do some thinking and research on this. It's an interesting challenge.

[KeithCu]

Okay, I found a way to do it without changing much code: 8d36151 I created a list_open_documents tool clal, and I changed it so that for MCP only, each function has an optional parameter of a filename. It's treated like the HTTP header. Try out the new build 0.8.15 when you have time and let me know how it goes.

[slu-010101]

That works great!
Thank you very much for the change and the additional tool!