Hi Alan,
as long as pdfbox supports jdk1.4, we are not able to use java5/6 features, but
thanks for your suggestion.
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
> I was iterating over some pages in a PDDocument, and did it this
> way:
>
> List pages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
> for (Object obj : pages)
> {
> PDPage page = (PDPage)obj;
>
> because the list returned by PDDocumentCatalog.getAllPages() is declared as
>
> an
> ArrayList vice an ArrayList of PDPages (see below). Thus, the extra type
> conversion
> in every iteration.
>
> public List getAllPages()
> {
> List retval = new ArrayList();
> PDPageNode rootNode = getPages();
> //old (slower):
> //getPageObjects( rootNode, retval );
> rootNode.getAllKids(retval);
> return retval;
> }
>
> The Java 6 "for" loop is typically 25+% faster for iterating over a
> list than using a list iterator.
> However, in this case, it made no difference (over 10-20 iterations and only
>
> looking at seconds).
>
> Would it be possible to do this sort of optimizations esp. on methods
>
> that return a list of pages?
> I realize there may be many complications of which I am not aware.
