PrintFields.java

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package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.interactive.form;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.pdfbox.Loader;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDNonTerminalField;

/**
 * This example will take a PDF document and print all the fields from the file.
 * 
 * @author Ben Litchfield
 * 
 */
public class PrintFields
{

    /**
     * This will print all the fields from the document.
     * 
     * @param pdfDocument The PDF to get the fields from.
     * 
     * @throws IOException If there is an error getting the fields.
     */
    public void printFields(PDDocument pdfDocument) throws IOException
    {
        PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog();
        PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
        List<PDField> fields = acroForm.getFields();

        System.out.println(fields.size() + " top-level fields were found on the form");

        for (PDField field : fields)
        {
            processField(field, "|--", field.getPartialName());
        }
    }

    private void processField(PDField field, String sLevel, String sParent) throws IOException
    {
        String partialName = field.getPartialName();
        
        if (field instanceof PDNonTerminalField)
        {
            if (!sParent.equals(field.getPartialName()) && partialName != null)
            {
                sParent = sParent + "." + partialName;
            }
            System.out.println(sLevel + sParent);

            for (PDField child : ((PDNonTerminalField)field).getChildren())
            {
                processField(child, "|  " + sLevel, sParent);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            String fieldValue = field.getValueAsString();
            StringBuilder outputString = new StringBuilder(sLevel);
            outputString.append(sParent);
            if (partialName != null)
            {
                outputString.append(".").append(partialName);
            }
            outputString.append(" = ").append(fieldValue);
            outputString.append(",  type=").append(field.getClass().getName());
            System.out.println(outputString);
        }
    }

    /**
     * This will read a PDF file and print out the form elements. <br>
     * see usage() for commandline
     * 
     * @param args command line arguments
     * 
     * @throws IOException If there is an error importing the FDF document.
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        PDDocument pdf = null;
        try
        {
            if (args.length != 1)
            {
                usage();
            }
            else
            {
                pdf = Loader.loadPDF(new File(args[0]));
                PrintFields exporter = new PrintFields();
                exporter.printFields(pdf);
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            if (pdf != null)
            {
                pdf.close();
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * This will print out a message telling how to use this example.
     */
    private static void usage()
    {
        System.err.println("usage: org.apache.pdfbox.examples.interactive.form.PrintFields <pdf-file>");
    }
}