public PDTextStream(COSString str) 
{
        string = str;
}

Constructor.

Parameters:

str - The string parameter.

 public PDTextStream(String str) 
{
        string = new COSString( str );
}

Constructor.

Parameters:

str - The string parameter.

 public PDTextStream(COSStream str) 
{
        stream = str;
}

Constructor.

Parameters:

str - The stream parameter.

 public static PDTextStream createTextStream(COSBase base) 
{
        PDTextStream retval = null;
        if( base instanceof COSString )
        {
            retval = new PDTextStream( (COSString) base );
        }
        else if( base instanceof COSStream )
        {
            retval = new PDTextStream( (COSStream)base );
        }
        return retval;
}

This will create the text stream object. base must either be a string or a stream.

 public InputStream getAsStream() throws IOException 
{
        InputStream retval = null;
        if( string != null )
        {
            retval = new ByteArrayInputStream( string.getBytes() );
        }
        else
        {
            retval = stream.getUnfilteredStream();
        }
        return retval;
}

This is the preferred way of getting data with this class as it uses a stream object.

 public String getAsString() throws IOException 
{
        String retval = null;
        if( string != null )
        {
            retval = string.getString();
        }
        else
        {
            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            byte[] buffer = new byte[ 1024 ];
            int amountRead = -1;
            InputStream is = stream.getUnfilteredStream();
            while( (amountRead = is.read( buffer ) ) != -1 )
            {
                out.write( buffer, 0, amountRead );
            }
            retval = new String( out.toByteArray() );
        }
        return retval;
}

This will get this value as a string. If this is a stream then it will load the entire stream into memory, so you should only do this when the stream is a manageable size.

 public COSBase getCOSObject() 
{
        COSBase retval = null;
        if( string == null )
        {
            retval = stream;
        }
        else
        {
            retval = string;
        }
        return retval;
}

Convert this standard java object to a COS object.