1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 3 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 4 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 5 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 6 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 7 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 8 * 9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 10 * 11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 15 * limitations under the License. 16 */ 17 package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf; 18 19 import java.io.IOException; 20 21 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm; 22 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField; 23 24 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; 25 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog; 26 27 import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException; 28 29 import org.apache.pdfbox.examples.AbstractExample; 30 31 /** 32 * This example will take a PDF document and set a FDF field in it. 33 * 34 * @author <a href="mailto:ben@benlitchfield.com">Ben Litchfield</a> 35 * @version $Revision: 1.7 $ 36 */ 37 public class SetField extends AbstractExample 38 { 39 40 /** 41 * This will set a single field in the document. 42 * 43 * @param pdfDocument The PDF to set the field in. 44 * @param name The name of the field to set. 45 * @param value The new value of the field. 46 * 47 * @throws IOException If there is an error setting the field. 48 */ 49 public void setField( PDDocument pdfDocument, String name, String value ) throws IOException 50 { 51 PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog(); 52 PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm(); 53 PDField field = acroForm.getField( name ); 54 if( field != null ) 55 { 56 field.setValue( value ); 57 } 58 else 59 { 60 System.err.println( "No field found with name:" + name ); 61 } 62 63 } 64 65 /** 66 * This will read a PDF file and set a field and then write it the pdf out again. 67 * <br /> 68 * see usage() for commandline 69 * 70 * @param args command line arguments 71 * 72 * @throws IOException If there is an error importing the FDF document. 73 * @throws COSVisitorException If there is an error writing the PDF. 74 */ 75 public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, COSVisitorException 76 { 77 SetField setter = new SetField(); 78 setter.setField( args ); 79 } 80 81 private void setField( String[] args ) throws IOException, COSVisitorException 82 { 83 PDDocument pdf = null; 84 try 85 { 86 if( args.length != 3 ) 87 { 88 usage(); 89 } 90 else 91 { 92 SetField example = new SetField(); 93 94 pdf = PDDocument.load( args[0] ); 95 example.setField( pdf, args[1], args[2] ); 96 pdf.save( args[0] ); 97 } 98 } 99 finally 100 { 101 if( pdf != null ) 102 { 103 pdf.close(); 104 } 105 } 106 } 107 /** 108 * This will print out a message telling how to use this example. 109 */ 110 private static void usage() 111 { 112 System.err.println( "usage: org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf.SetField <pdf-file> <field-name> <field-value>" ); 113 } 114 }