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Rosalind Douglas commented on PDFBOX-4617:
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[~tilman] and [~msahyoun] thanks for looking into this! Sorry I added to the
confusion by giving you a slightly different PDF than the error message I
originally gave you. I was actually experimenting with it the same time as
writing up the ticket. I've updated the ticket to reflect the choice values on
the PDF and edited the PDF labels (Radio buttons with duplicate names and
choices-2019-08-05.pdf) to match with your findings.
You're on the right track: the problem is that you can't use the parsed choice
values to set the radio button state.
> PDButton.setValue and PDButton.getOnValueForWidget cannot handle radios with
> duplicate names and choices
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-4617
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4617
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: AcroForm
> Affects Versions: 2.0.16
> Reporter: Rosalind Douglas
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: Radio buttons with duplicate names and
> choices-2019-08-05.pdf, Radio buttons with duplicate names and choices.pdf
>
>
> Hello, thank you for all of your efforts in building and maintaining PDFBox.
> We use it extensively for parsing PDFs, programmatically setting values and
> flattening PDFs for print.
> BUG: When we parse the attached PDF, the onvalues for the radio buttons are
> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, which are determined by PDButton.getOnValueForWidget. Later
> on, when we try to programmatically set the value of the radio buttons
> (PDField.setValue) using the above onvalues, we receive this error:
> {code:java}
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: value '4' is not a valid option for the
> field RadiosDuplicateExportValues, valid values are: [0, Choice2] and Off
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDButton.checkValue(PDButton.java:376)
> ~[pdfbox-2.0.16.jar:2.0.16]
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDButton.setValue(PDButton.java:158)
> ~[pdfbox-2.0.16.jar:2.0.16]
> {code}
> The radio buttons all have the same name, with either "Choice2" or "0" as the
> choice value. We would expect it to behave like Adobe DC, which allows the
> user to select any of the buttons regardless of whether they have the same
> choice or not. I am on PDFBox 2.0.16.
> Though my example might seem trivial, it's very easy for our PDF creating
> users to do this because copying and pasting fields is the easiest way to
> build a PDF.
> PROPOSED FIX:
> This might be a regression caused by PDFBOX-3391. In our code, we have
> overridden the PDButton.setValue method so that it always invokes
> updateByValue(value) rather than sometimes using updateByOption(value). Here
> is the code that works for us, from PDButton.setValue(String value):
>
> {code:java}
> @Override public void setValue(String value) throws IOException {
> checkValue(value);
> updateByValue(value);
> applyChange(); }
> {code}
>
> One caveat is that the change would probably break your PDFBOX-3391 fix, but
> perhaps there's some way to have them live side by side. I don't know very
> much about the other problem.
> Thanks again,
> Rosalind
>
>
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