Hi,
while adding functionality to PDFBOX parsing I stumbled upon the
distinct objects COSName and COSString.
Both represents strings and both can be entries in a dictionary or
array. Thus when reading a dictionary or array entry I have to test if
it may be a COSName or a COSString if I want to have the string value.
At least in case of COSDictionary this is done in getNameAsString
method. But for COSArray no such method exists.
So one solution would be to add a getNameAsString method to COSArray but
I would propose to add an interface COSStringValue with a method
getStringValue which will be implemented by COSName and COSString. This
would allow more elegant and maintainable code.
What do you think?
I could create necessary patched for one of the solutions.
Regards,
Timo
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