Migrating Applescript to Scripting Bridge: cannot get range value in Excel 2008

Question

I need to move some Applescript code to the Scripting Bridge to take advantage of some Cocoa hooks without the need for Applescript-ObjC.

Using Excel 2008 with Applescript, it is easy to get a range value:

set myList to GetValuesFromColumnRange("A", 1, 100)

 on GetValuesFromColumnRange(ColumnLetter, FirstRow, LastRow) -- (string, integer, integer) as list
     set theList to {}
     tell application "Microsoft Excel"
         set theRange to ColumnLetter & FirstRow & ":" & ColumnLetter & LastRow
         set AppleScript text item delimiters to {return}
         set theList to (get value of range theRange as list)
         set AppleScript text item delimiters to {""}
     end tell
     set theList to ConvertItemizedListToValueList(theList) of me -- Note this dependency due to how MSE2008 returns the data
     return theList
 end GetValuesFromColumnRange

But in Scripting Bridge I have a problem with getting range worksheet cells. The following is what I still have.

    Excel2008Application *excelApp = [SBApplication applicationWithBundleIdentifier:@"com.microsoft.Excel"];

    Excel2008Workbook *workbook = excelApp.activeWorkbook;

    SBElementArray *sheets = [workbook sheets];

    Excel2008Sheet *targetSheet;
    int thisSheet = 0;
    int lastSheet = [sheets count]; 

    for (thisSheet = 0; thisSheet < lastSheet; thisSheet++) {
        Excel2008Sheet *currentSheet = [sheets objectAtIndex:thisSheet];
        NSString *currentSheetName = currentSheet.name;
        if ([currentSheetName isEqualToString:@"Metadata"]) {
            targetSheet = currentSheet;
            [targetSheet retain];
        }
    }

    Excel2008Range *range = [[[excelApp classForScriptingClass:@"range"] alloc] initWithProperties:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"A1:A10", @"formulaR1c1", nil]];

    [[targetSheet ranges] addObject:range];
    range = [[targetSheet ranges] lastObject]; // not null; stated class in log: MicrosoftExcelRange

    Excel2008Sheet *valueSheet = range.worksheetObject; // supposed to be new worksheet based upon values within the range; not null; stated class in log: MicrosoftExcelSheet
    [valueSheet retain];

    SBElementArray *valueCells = [valueSheet cells]; // not null, but count is 0
    [valueCells retain];

The problem is with the last row when I actually get the cells from valueSheet, since the return is SBElementArraynot null, but it also does not contain any objects. The same goes for getting cells in targetSheet.

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Answer 1

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NSString *rangeName = @"A1:A10";

Excel2008Range *range = [[[excelApp classForScriptingClass:@"range"] alloc] initWithProperties:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:rangeName, @"name", nil]];
[[targetSheet ranges] addObject:range];

Excel2008Range *currentRange;
if ([[[targetSheet ranges] objectWithName:rangeName] exists]) {
    currentRange = [[targetSheet ranges] objectWithName:rangeName];
}

NSLog(@"[currentRange.value get] = %@", [currentRange.value get]);
// result: ((key),(1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9)) = NSArray

, , name Excel2008Range. , , - formulaR1c1 - [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:rangeName, @"formulaR1c1", nil] - .

Applescript...

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    set theValues to get value of range "A1:A10"
end tell

... objc-appscript...

NSString *rangeString = @"A1:A10"
MEApplication *microsoftExcel = [MEApplication applicationWithName: @"Microsoft Excel"];
MEReference *cells = [[[microsoftExcel ranges] byName:rangeString] value];
NSArray *cellValues = [cells getItem];

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