org.pdfbox.cos
Class COSDocument

java.lang.Object
  org.pdfbox.cos.COSBase
      org.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument

All Implemented Interfaces:

COSObjectable

public class COSDocument

extends COSBase

This is the in-memory representation of the PDF document. You need to call close() on this object when you are done using it!!

Version:

$Revision: 1.28 $

Author:

Ben Litchfield

Constructor Summary

COSDocument()
Constructor.

COSDocument(File scratchDir)
Constructor that will create a create a scratch file in the following directory.

COSDocument(RandomAccess file)
Constructor that will use the following random access file for storage of the PDF streams.

Method Summary

Object	accept(ICOSVisitor visitor) visitor pattern double dispatch method.
COSObject	addObject(COSObject obj) This will add an object to this document.
void	close() This will close all storage and delete the tmp files.
void	dereferenceObjectStreams() This method will search the list of objects for types of ObjStm.
protected void	finalize() The sole purpose of this is to inform a client of PDFBox that they did not close the document.
COSObject	getCatalog() This will get the document catalog.
COSArray	getDocumentID() This will get the document ID.
COSDictionary	getEncryptionDictionary() This will get the encryption dictionary if the document is encrypted or null if the document is not encrypted.
String	getHeaderString()
COSObject	getObjectByType(COSName type) This will get the first dictionary object by type.
COSObject	getObjectByType(String type) This will get the first dictionary object by type.
COSObject	getObjectFromPool(COSObjectKey key) This will get an object from the pool.
List	getObjects() This will get a list of all available objects.
List	getObjectsByType(COSName type) This will get a dictionary object by type.
List	getObjectsByType(String type) This will get all dictionary objects by type.
RandomAccess	getScratchFile() This will get the scratch file for this document.
COSDictionary	getTrailer() This will get the document trailer.
float	getVersion() This will get the version of this PDF document.
boolean	isEncrypted() This will tell if this is an encrypted document.
void	print() This will print contents to stdout.
void	setDocumentID(COSArray id) This will set the document ID.
void	setEncryptionDictionary(COSDictionary encDictionary) This will set the encryption dictionary, this should only be called when encypting the document.
void	setHeaderString(String header)
void	setTrailer(COSDictionary newTrailer) // MIT added, maybe this should not be supported as trailer is a persistence construct.
void	setVersion(float versionValue) This will set the version of this PDF document.

Methods inherited from class org.pdfbox.cos.COSBase

getCOSObject, getFilterManager

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

COSDocument

public COSDocument()
            throws IOException

Constructor. Uses the java.io.tmpdir value to create a file to store the streams.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error creating the tmp file.

COSDocument

public COSDocument(File scratchDir)
            throws IOException

Constructor that will create a create a scratch file in the following directory.

Parameters:

scratchDir - The directory to store a scratch file.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error creating the tmp file.

COSDocument

public COSDocument(RandomAccess file)

Constructor that will use the following random access file for storage of the PDF streams. The client of this method is responsible for deleting the storage if necessary that this file will write to. The close method will close the file though.

Parameters:

file - The random access file to use for storage.

Method Detail

getScratchFile

public RandomAccess getScratchFile()

This will get the scratch file for this document.

Returns:

The scratch file.

getObjectByType

public COSObject getObjectByType(String type)

This will get the first dictionary object by type.

Parameters:

type - The type of the object.

Returns:

This will return an object with the specified type.

getObjectByType

public COSObject getObjectByType(COSName type)

This will get the first dictionary object by type.

Parameters:

type - The type of the object.

Returns:

This will return an object with the specified type.

getObjectsByType

public List getObjectsByType(String type)

This will get all dictionary objects by type.

Parameters:

type - The type of the object.

Returns:

This will return an object with the specified type.

getObjectsByType

public List getObjectsByType(COSName type)

This will get a dictionary object by type.

Parameters:

type - The type of the object.

Returns:

This will return an object with the specified type.

print

public void print()

This will print contents to stdout.

setVersion

public void setVersion(float versionValue)

This will set the version of this PDF document.

Parameters:

versionValue - The version of the PDF document.

getVersion

public float getVersion()

This will get the version of this PDF document.

Returns:

This documents version.

isEncrypted

public boolean isEncrypted()

This will tell if this is an encrypted document.

Returns:

true If this document is encrypted.

getEncryptionDictionary

public COSDictionary getEncryptionDictionary()

This will get the encryption dictionary if the document is encrypted or null if the document is not encrypted.

Returns:

The encryption dictionary.

setEncryptionDictionary

public void setEncryptionDictionary(COSDictionary encDictionary)

This will set the encryption dictionary, this should only be called when encypting the document.

Parameters:

encDictionary - The encryption dictionary.

getDocumentID

public COSArray getDocumentID()

This will get the document ID.

Returns:

The document id.

setDocumentID

public void setDocumentID(COSArray id)

This will set the document ID.

Parameters:

id - The document id.

getCatalog

public COSObject getCatalog()
                     throws IOException

This will get the document catalog. Maybe this should move to an object at PDFEdit level

Returns:

catalog is the root of all document activities

Throws:

IOException - If no catalog can be found.

getObjects

public List getObjects()

This will get a list of all available objects.

Returns:

A list of all objects.

getTrailer

public COSDictionary getTrailer()

This will get the document trailer.

Returns:

the document trailer dict

setTrailer

public void setTrailer(COSDictionary newTrailer)

// MIT added, maybe this should not be supported as trailer is a persistence construct. This will set the document trailer.

Parameters:

newTrailer - the document trailer dictionary

accept

public Object accept(ICOSVisitor visitor)
              throws COSVisitorException

visitor pattern double dispatch method.

Specified by:

accept in class COSBase

Parameters:

visitor - The object to notify when visiting this object.

Returns:

any object, depending on the visitor implementation, or null

Throws:

COSVisitorException - If an error occurs while visiting this object.

close

public void close()
           throws IOException

This will close all storage and delete the tmp files.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error close resources.

finalize

protected void finalize()

The sole purpose of this is to inform a client of PDFBox that they did not close the document.

getHeaderString

public String getHeaderString()

Returns:

Returns the headerString.

setHeaderString

public void setHeaderString(String header)

Parameters:

header - The headerString to set.

dereferenceObjectStreams

public void dereferenceObjectStreams()
                              throws IOException

This method will search the list of objects for types of ObjStm. If it finds them then it will parse out all of the objects from the stream that is contains.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error parsing the stream.

addObject

public COSObject addObject(COSObject obj)
                    throws IOException

This will add an object to this document. the method checks if obj is already present as there may be cyclic dependencies

Parameters:

obj - The object to add to the document.

Returns:

The object that was actually added to this document, if an object reference already existed then that will be returned.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error adding the object.

getObjectFromPool

public COSObject getObjectFromPool(COSObjectKey key)
                            throws IOException

This will get an object from the pool.

Parameters:

key - The object key.

Returns:

The object in the pool or a new one if it has not been parsed yet.

Throws:

IOException - If there is an error getting the proxy object.