After looking at the sample provided by Maruan, I noticed that I was not
passing in a File object, when calling the PDDocument.load() method. Doing
so, I now get the same result from Maruan's code (in eclipse).
Now I am unsure how to get *all* of the fields from the PDAcroForm. I am
trying to get a collection of the fields, so I can loop through them. When
I add this code:
List<PDField> pdfFields = form.getFields();
for (PDField field : pdfFields) {
System.out.println("PDF Field Full Name: ".concat(field
.getFullyQualifiedName()));
}
I get the same single field name ("RPA[0]"). Am I using this correctly or
is there something else I am missing?
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Tolen Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm sorry Maruan. My email client did not show me your response, when I
> looked at it yesterday. Now (in gmail) I can see your response below mine.
>
> Allow me to respond to your questions: I am using PDFBox version 1.8.10,
> so I utilized your suggested PDAcroForm.getXFA() and it did return null.
> This is expected, as I created the PDF in LiveCycle as a "Static PDF."
>
> My intention is to store a template (linked previously) on the server's
> disk and have server side code run and call PDFBox's API. My implementation
> would loop through the fields in the document being passed (no sql db) and
> ideally look for field name based matches using PDAcroForm.getField() and
> if a match is found on the pdf, set the value.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > Am 24.08.2015 um 09:15 schrieb Tolen Miller <[email protected]>:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am trying to load a fillable pdf file I created (using LiveCycle),
>> but cannot seem to get a hold of the fields. Is there anything obviously
>> wrong with the code below or could it be my form?
>> >
>> > PDDocument pdfDoc = new PDDocument();
>> > String fileTemplate =
>> "D:\\PDFTemplates\\RPA_Template_Test.pdf";
>> >
>> > try {
>> > pdfDoc = PDDocument.load(fileTemplate);
>> > PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog =
>> pdfDoc.getDocumentCatalog();
>> > PDAcroForm pdfTemplate = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
>> > pdfDoc.getNumberOfPages();
>> > List<PDField> pdfFields = pdfTemplate.getFields();
>>
>> if there is a PDAcroForm but there are no fields it's very likely a
>> dynamic XFA form. If you are using PDFBox 2.0.0 you can use
>> PDAcroForm.xfaIsDynamic(). If that returns true then you have a dynamic XFA
>> form. For PDFBox 1.8.x you can use PDAcroForm.getXFA(). If that is not null
>> and getFields() is empty again this means that you have a dynamic XFA form.
>> Dynamic XFA forms do not contain 'regular' AcroForm fields.
>>
>> What is it what you would like to do with the form?
>>
>> BR
>> Maruan
>>
>>
>> > System.out.println( pdfFields.isEmpty() ); //always
>> true
>> > …
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Tolen Miller
>> >
>> >
>>
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