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Kurt Devlin commented on PDFBOX-3576:
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I'm new to Apache PDFBox (and to our company's code that uses it). Is there a 
recommendation on how to move forward now without having forked copies of 
Apache PDFBox code in our project?

> Add getter methods to TextPosition
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>                 Key: PDFBOX-3576
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3576
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.3
>            Reporter: Kurt Devlin
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> I've inherited code in my department that created a local copy of 
> TextPosition and broke it's immutability. I'm trying to refactor this code 
> and use the core Apache implementation and I understand the need for 
> TextPosition to be immutable, but can getters be added to provide read-only 
> access to the class's fields?
> We have custom code that does comparison of endX/endY values to determine if 
> there are overlapping characters and other features. In our application, we 
> also have a swap feature where we need to create/clone new TextPosition 
> instances with minor differences between an existing TextPosition instance. 
> Since there are a lot of fields that are required by the constructor of the 
> new instances, but can't be read from an existing instance, we need a way to 
> access these fields.
> There probably should also be an override for equals() and hashCode().



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