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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:27:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: Going from 1.8.9 to 2.0
From: Evan Williams <evan.williams@zapprx.com>
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I apologize for my stupidity, but I have no idea how to get the value I
need from a PDAppearanceEntry. It is obviously a map of appearance streams
but I am not certain how to extract the actual name of the widget from the
appearance entry. Could you possibly give me a bit more detail

Thank you, and once again, I apologize for being dense.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Am 25.06.2015 um 16:23 schrieb Evan Williams <evan.williams@zapprx.com>:
> >
> > When I said getOptions() returned null I meant it returns empty list. Not
> > enough coffee. Everything else applies.
>
> I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2841 <
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2841> to handle that.
>
> - getOptions() returns the export values of the radio button group so
> that's not what you are looking for (and we might rename that method to
> better reflect it's intention)
> - you could use getWidgets() to get the individual radio buttons and from
> there for each individual widget
> widget.getAppearance().getNormalAppearance() gives you the dictionary to
> get the values from.
>
> BR
> Maruan
>
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Evan Williams <
> evan.williams@zapprx.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Absolutely you can!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9TQWtr2Ipa9YlRORHVlTDVGS0k/view?usp=sharing
> >>
> >> But I strongly, strongly suspect that it is nothing to do with the pdf
> >> document itself because there are many many forms from many many sources
> >> and they all exhibit the same behavior.
> >>
> >> In the linked document I was, for example, able to enumerate 'Male' and
> >> 'Female' as values for the Radio Button group 'Gender' with my 1.8.9
> code.
> >> In my 2.0 code I can't.
> >>
> >> The way I used to enumerate radio button groups was to call the
> getKids()
> >> method an the radio collection and enumerate the returned fields. That
> is
> >> not possible in 2.0 and I don't have anything that works. the PDButton
> >> method goetOptions() always returns null.
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>>> Am 24.06.2015 um 22:20 schrieb Evan Williams <
> evan.williams@zapprx.com
> >>>> :
> >>>>
> >>>> I have an application written to use pdfbox 1.8.9 which is all about
> >>>> filling forms. I have a form library and I fill in values in forms
> using
> >>>> data I am handed.
> >>>>
> >>>> One of the things I also need to do is do introspection on the pdf
> >>> document
> >>>> to find out what fields are in it and make a template for filling the
> >>> form
> >>>> with data in my application.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am trying to get my application to work with pdfbox 2.0. Getting the
> >>>> forms I have to fill was pretty straightforward.
> >>>>
> >>>> But I am having some difficulty with the introspection.
> >>>>
> >>>> For the templates I like to have an enumeration of the possible values
> >>> of
> >>>> the field if the field has such values. For example the names of the
> >>>> possible values for a collection of radio buttons.
> >>>>
> >>>> I understood how to get those values for the 1.8.9 PDRadioCollection
> >>> but I
> >>>> have tried various things to get the same information for the 2.0
> >>>> PDRadioButton and I am not getting the information I need. the
> >>> getOptions()
> >>>> method on PDButton looked like exactly what I needed. But it always
> >>> returns
> >>>> null for me.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> could you upload a sample form to a public location to take a look?
> >>>
> >>> BR
> >>> Maruan
> >>>
> >>>> As an aside I also used to get the on and off values of checkboxes
> with
> >>>> getOnValue() and getOffValue(). These are in the Javadoc but appear to
> >>> not
> >>>> be in the actual API. I don't care very much about those, but they
> were
> >>>> nice to have, and the Javadoc should be accurate as much as possible.
> >>>>
> >>>> If anyone can help me with the RadioButton thing that would be a big
> >>> help.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you.
> >>>> --
> >>>> *Evan Williams*
> >>>> Sr. Software Engineer
> >>>> evan.williams@zapprx.com
> >>>>
> >>>> *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
> >>>
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> >>
> >> --
> >> *Evan Williams*
> >> Sr. Software Engineer
> >> evan.williams@zapprx.com
> >>
> >> *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > *Evan Williams*
> > Sr. Software Engineer
> > evan.williams@zapprx.com
> >
> > *www.ZappRx.com <http://www.zapprx.com/>*
>
>


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*Evan Williams*
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