RE: Duplicating an existing link annotation

[Sheila M. Morrissey]

I wonder if the PDBorderStyleDictionary didn't end up serialized as an indirect 
object --
Maybe something like the following would work:

PDBorderStyleDictionary bsd = null;
COSObjectable cob = newLink.getBorderStyle();
if (cob instanceof COSObject){
        COSObject cos = (COSObject)cob;
        COSBase base = cos.getObject();
        if (base instanceof PDBorderStyleDictionary){
                bsd = (PDBorderStyleDictionary) base;
        }
}
else if (cob instanceof PDBorderStyleDictionary){
        bsd = PDBorderStyleDictionary cob;
}
If (bsd != null){
  // off you go
}
else {
  // hmmm.. what happened to my dictionary?
}

Sheila


-----Original Message-----
From: Gilad Denneboom [mailto:gilad.denneb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:32 PM
To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
Subject: Duplicating an existing link annotation

Hi all,

I'm trying to duplicate an existing link annotation (PDAnnotationLink) from
one page to others. I'm using this code:

    private static PDAnnotationLink duplicateLink(PDAnnotationLink link,
PDPage page) {
        PDAnnotationLink newLink = new PDAnnotationLink();
        newLink.setAction(link.getAction());
        newLink.setColour(link.getColour());
        newLink.setRectangle(link.getRectangle());
        newLink.setAppearance(link.getAppearance());
        newLink.setAppearanceStream(link.getAppearanceStream());
        newLink.setHighlightMode(link.getHighlightMode());
        newLink.setAnnotationFlags(link.getAnnotationFlags());
        newLink.setBorderStyle(link.getBorderStyle());
        newLink.setPage(page);
        return newLink;
    }

This works when I run the tool on a file I've created and added some links
to. HOWEVER, if I then run the result file through the same code, the
following Exception is thrown:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException:
org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSObject cannot be cast to
org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary
    at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.PDAnnotationLink.getBorderStyle(PDAnnotationLink.java:131)

Since this is a RunTimeException I can't even catch it and my application
fails... Any help with this will be appreciated.
Am I creating the new link in an incorrect way?

Thanks in advance, Gilad.