iText only supports setField() with PDFs created with Designer.
Paulo
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of VanderMolen, David
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:07 PM
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] Nullpointer in setListOption()
>
> I am using a pdf created with Adobe Designer 7.0...
>
> When calling setListOption with a shortened (non-key) field
> name, the method fails with a nullpointer exception on the
> Item. Is there a reason that the fieldName parameter that
> works for setField doesn't work here?
>
> public boolean setListOption(String fieldName, String[]
> exportValues, String[] displayValues) {
> if (exportValues == null && displayValues == null)
> return false;
> if (exportValues != null && displayValues != null &&
> exportValues.length != displayValues.length)
> throw new IllegalArgumentException("The export
> and the display array must have the same size.");
> int ftype = getFieldType(fieldName);
> if (ftype != FIELD_TYPE_COMBO && ftype != FIELD_TYPE_LIST)
> return false;
> Item fd = (Item)fields.get(fieldName);
> //--nullpointer here for valid field name, expects the
> .whatever[0]. pathing
>
> public boolean setListOption(String fieldName, String[]
> exportValues, String[] displayValues) {
> if (exportValues == null && displayValues == null)
> return false;
> if (exportValues != null && displayValues != null &&
> exportValues.length != displayValues.length)
> throw new IllegalArgumentException("The export
> and the display array must have the same size.");
> int ftype = getFieldType(fieldName);
> if (ftype != FIELD_TYPE_COMBO && ftype != FIELD_TYPE_LIST)
> return false;
>
> //(stole this code from setField method, which works)
> if (xfa.isXfaPresent()) {
> fieldName = xfa.findFieldName(fieldName, this);
> if (fieldName == null)
> return false;
> String shortName =
> XfaForm.Xml2Som.getShortName(fieldName);
> }
> Item fd = (Item)fields.get(fieldName); //--sets
> values correctly
>
>
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