Shubham Gupta created PDFBOX-5439:
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Summary: Details of form fields with same name not getting stored
using PDAcroform
Key: PDFBOX-5439
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5439
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Shubham Gupta
Attachments: Expected And Actual Result.docx, sample code.txt
Steps to reproduce:
# Develop a program that will take the PDF in PDDocument and then get the
Acroform details in PDAcroform now in a list of PDField try to get all the
fields. (I have attached a sample code for a better understanding of the team).
# Now use a PDF which is having forms and keep two form fields with the same
name (let's say you are using Adobe Acrobat when you will go to tools and then
to Forms and then to Edit Form option and when you will click any form field
TEXT FIELD PROPERTIES will open. Just Go Click on the General tab and Keep the
two form fields names the same.)
# Now if the PDF contains in total of 10 form fields, the list the we got from
pdfbox that we have will be of size 9, This is because PDAcroform is not taking
those form fields that have the same form field name, they are storing only
those form fields whose name are unique.
# This needs to be improved so that a developer using PDFBOX library, which is
by the way superb, wants to validate those Form Fields which have no tooltip
and the duplicate form fields are the ones that don't have a tooltip but since
only one is getting stored he will get the wrong result every time, I have
given a simple example to make the team understand but this needs to be
improved.
Please find the attachment for your reference.
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