Greetings,
I just got iText in Action and am starting to dig into this great tool. I am
using iText in a JSP scriptlet.
I want to create a HTTP service that can create PDFs from simpler content such
as JSON. So remote services could generate PDF with similar but varying
layouts, without having to re-write the JSP for every small variation in the
related services. e.g. think of a report with different fields and section
names, for instance.
There could be a JSON representation of the different iText Elements, something
like below, and then in Java unmarshall the JSON text into iText Document and
adding the Elements to it.
I have looked at some of the Java object marshalling libraries that are
available, and they looked pretty much like overkill for something like this
and
most of them are focused on XML not JSON.
So I thought I would ask- has anyone tried to create PDFs from JSON using
iText?
Any suggestions for either a) what design pattern in Java to use, or b) a
dynamic scripting language running in Java to make an iText element factory?
Hopefully this question makes sense, if not please let me know!
// JSON representing iText Elements
{
"iText" :
[
{"class" : "Paragraph",
"constructor" : "Paragraph from a string with no formatting. Nullam
commodo bibendum est. Vestibulum congue. Donec luctus velit at erat. "},
{"class": "Paragraph",
"add" :
[
{ "class": "Chunk",
"constructor" : "Paragraph composed of Chunks and Phrases."},
{ "class": "Phrase" ,
"constructor" : "Styled text: Etiam diam est, fermentum id,
lacinia nec, auctor vel, justo. Curabitur vestibulum tempor turpis. Nunc vitae
mi. Etiam eget magna. Etiam blandit porta justo.",
"font", "font ...",
"color", "color... etc."}
]
}
]
}
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