Nevermind. I found that I can just pass the hard-coded string "Opt".
Thanks for your help, Gilad. It was exactly what I needed. Bob Wojack SRA International, Inc. Onsite Contractor for the Department of Justice Senior Tech Lead US Trustee Program Onsite Email Address: [email protected] Onsite Phone Number: TBD Cell#: (301)910-9975 -----Original Message----- From: Wojack, Robert (USTP) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: How to trim whitespace from options in a combobox on an existing PDF form? Hi Gilad, Thanks for your prompt response. It seems as though the const, COSName.OPT, is not available in PDFBox 1.2, so I assume that we would still need to upgrade to PDFBox 1.8 even to roll our own getOptions(), correct? Bob Wojack SRA International, Inc. Onsite Contractor for the Department of Justice Senior Tech Lead US Trustee Program Onsite Email Address: [email protected] Onsite Phone Number: TBD Cell#: (301)910-9975 -----Original Message----- From: Gilad Denneboom [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to trim whitespace from options in a combobox on an existing PDF form? You're using a very old version of PDFBox. In later versions a method was added to the PDChoiceField class called getOptions. You can use it to return a COSArray with the options for that field, and then iterate through them (trimming them as you do) and comparing them to your string. You can also write your own method to write new options for your field, based on the code of getOptions, which is basically just this line: return (COSArray) getDictionary().getDictionaryObject(COSName.OPT); On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Wojack, Robert (USTP) < [email protected]> wrote: > We have a client that provides us with interactive PDF forms for our > app to populate fields with user data. > > The problem is the client sometimes provides us forms with typos and > is not responsive about fixing them. In this case, we are given a form > with a combo box of options, and some of the options accidentally have > trailing or leading whitespace. So when we attempt to select an option > using the setValue(String optionValue) method, it fails to match > (i.e., "Maine" fails to match the "Maine " option on the form). > > As a workaround, we can add the extraneous whitespace to induce a > match for these occasional goofs, but of course that is extremely > hacky. Is there a way to trim all of the whitespace from all of the > option values in an existing PDF before attempting to set the value? > > We are using PDFBox 1.2.1, but we are open to upgrading to a newer version. > > Thanks > > Bob Wojack > > B KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKCB [ X ܚX KK[XZ[ \ \ ][ X ܚX P \X K ܙ B ܈Y][ۘ[ [X[ K[XZ[ \ \ Z[ \X K ܙ B
