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Rosalind Douglas commented on PDFBOX-4617:
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[~msahyoun] I'm looking to select the option individually AND also be able to
tell which was selected. The way I have done this is to parse the radio
button's onvalues (which gives me 0, 1, 2, 3, 4), which can also give me what
has been selected (for instance, value=4). I can also select the option
individually as long as I override the default PDFBox behavior and use
updateByValue(4) instead.
I agree with you, I would expect Adobe to honor the choice value and multiple
radio buttons would be selected at the same time. However, Adobe always checks
them individually. Our product tries to simulate the Adobe experience so we are
overriding PDFBox to do whatever Adobe does.
> 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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