Ah. Thanks so much. I didn't realize I had to traverse the structure. My apologies.
@Roberto Thank you for the sample code! On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 02:16 Roberto Nibali <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > Am 26.08.2015 um 06:00 schrieb Tolen Miller <[email protected]>: > > > > > > I uploaded my PDF again, if someone wants to see if they can get all of > > the > > > fields to return: http://1drv.ms/1PRKZsI > > > > > > 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())); > > > } > > > > > > > as there is only one 'root' field you have to get it's kids and process > > the field tree down. Take a look at > > org.apache.pdfbox.examples.fdf.PrintFields of how to do that. > > > > > Having spent the last two months intensively with form fields, here is my > current code to dump the fields: > > private void executeDumpFields(String srcDocName) throws IOException { > PDDocument srcDoc = null; > try { > srcDoc = PDDocument.load(new File(srcDocName)); > > srcDoc.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm().getFields().forEach(this::dumpField); > srcDoc.close(); > } catch (Exception e) { > logerr(e.getMessage()); > } finally { > if (srcDoc != null) { > srcDoc.close(); > } > } > } > > private void dumpField(PDField srcField) { > if (srcField instanceof PDNonTerminalField) { > ((PDNonTerminalField) > srcField).getChildren().forEach(this::dumpField); > } else if (!(srcField instanceof PDSignatureField)) { > System.out.printf("fqName=%s type=%s%n", > srcField.getFullyQualifiedName(), > srcField.getClass().getSimpleName()); > } > } > > Maybe you can use some of it. Just call the executeDumpFields(...) with the > appropriate PDF name as a string and go from there. Not understanding the > PDF standard and how the dictionary trees are built up inside PDF, I had a > hard time initially understanding why I need to kind of recursively to > through the PDField entries. > > Cheers > Roberto >
