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Ilya Sazonov commented on PDFBOX-2617: -------------------------------------- I have refreshed pdfbox from 1.8.6 to 1.8.9 and it made 3 of my tests fail. So it wasn't a big deal for me, I have already worked around the issue by checking if PDCheckbox has kids and converting it to PDRadioCollection if it does. I know a workaround is not a nice way of doing things, but I'm planning to wait till 2.0 is released and then doing it properly. Don't worry about me, I got it covered :). But introducing breaking changes with a patch is still not a nice thing to do. Changing the way how terminal fields are recognized in pdfbox seems pretty big to me. Totally worth of increasing minor version at least. Yes, a half of a year has passed and I'm the only guy complaining, so maybe it's ok this time, but I don't want to meet something similar in the future. I want to trust pdfbox, that's what I want to say :). Also I honestly don't see how the changes <a href="https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/branches/1.8/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/interactive/form/PDFieldFactory.java?r1=1654480&r2=1654479&pathrev=1654480">here</a> help with multiple occurrences of the same field in a pdf. But I understand I either have to make that workaround, or write code to walk through widget dictionaries and retrieve field values. If library has replaced PDRadioCollection with PDCheckbox, then PDCheckbox should have a method to get it's possible values, but it doesn't. Even in 2.0 . So, thank you for your answer, and please don't take my complaints personally, I'm not Linus Torvalds you know :). And if I'm wrong about having to retrieve field values manually, please correct me. It would be nice to know there's a nice way of doing it. If I wasn't clear about what I wanted and you want code, I can send it to you a little bit later. > Group of Button fields treated as a Radio Button group > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: PDFBOX-2617 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2617 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Components: AcroForm > Affects Versions: 1.8.8, 2.0.0 > Environment: Windows 7, Eclipse, JRE 1.8.0_25 > Reporter: Gilad Denneboom > Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 1.8.9, 2.0.0 > > Attachments: test.pdf > > > When creating a group of identical button fields PDFBox reads them as a group > of radio-button fields, with each widget as a check-box, which is incorrect. > The main field has the class PDRadioCollection and each kid is a PDCheckbox. > Run the following code on the attached file: > PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load( new File("test.pdf") ); > PDAcroForm form = doc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm(); > List<PDField> fields = form.getFields(); > for (PDField f: fields) { > System.out.println("Name:" + f.getFullyQualifiedName()); > System.out.println("Type:" + f.getFieldType()); > System.out.println("Class:" + f.getClass()); > List<COSObjectable> kids = f.getKids(); > if (kids!=null) { > for (COSObjectable c : kids) { > System.out.println("Kid Class: " + c.getClass()); > > } > > } > } > The results are: > Name:Test > Type:Btn > Class:class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDRadioCollection > Kid Class: class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDCheckbox > Kid Class: class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDCheckbox -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org