Gilad Denneboom created PDFBOX-2148:
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Summary: Handle the Fully Qualified Name of duplicate fields better
Key: PDFBOX-2148
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2148
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: PDModel
Affects Versions: 1.8.5
Reporter: Gilad Denneboom
Priority: Minor
Attachments: field name test.java, field name test.pdf
When there are multiple copies with the same field name, the
getFullyQualifiedName for each kid in the list of PDField objects returns the
name of the parent, followed by ".null". So if the parent field is called
"Button2" and it has 4 instances the result of printing out all the names will
be:
Button2.null
Button2.null
Button2.null
Button2.null
Acrobat names these widgets using consecutive numbers, like so:
Button2.0
Button2.1
Button2.2
Button2.3
I had a look at the PDF ISO documentation regarding Field Names (12.7.3.2, p.
434) and this convention is not mentioned there, but it might be a good idea to
use it anyway, no?
I'm attaching a sample code snippet and a PDF that show this issue.
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