com.itextpdf.forms.xfdf

Class XfdfObjectFactory

java.lang.Object

com.itextpdf.forms.xfdf.XfdfObjectFactory

public class XfdfObjectFactory
extends Object

A factory for creating XfdfObject objects.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
XfdfObjectFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
XfdfObject	createXfdfObject(InputStream xfdfInputStream) Extracts data from input stream into XfdfObject.
XfdfObject	createXfdfObject(PdfDocument document, String filename) Extracts data from pdf document acroform and annotations into XfdfObject.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XfdfObjectFactory

public XfdfObjectFactory()

Method Detail

createXfdfObject

public XfdfObject createXfdfObject(PdfDocument document,
                                   String filename)

Extracts data from pdf document acroform and annotations into XfdfObject.

Parameters:

document - Pdf document for data extraction

filename - The name od pdf document for data extraction

Returns:

XfdfObject containing data from pdf forms and annotations.

createXfdfObject

public XfdfObject createXfdfObject(InputStream xfdfInputStream)
                            throws ParserConfigurationException,
                                   SAXException

Extracts data from input stream into XfdfObject. Typically input stream is based on .xfdf file.

Parameters:

xfdfInputStream - the input stream containing xml-styled xfdf data

Returns:

XfdfObject containing original xfdf data.

Throws:

ParserConfigurationException - if a XfdfObject cannot be created which satisfies the configuration requested.

SAXException - if any parse errors occurs.