Glad to hear you were able to solve it! On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Wojack, Robert (USTP) < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 K K[XZ[ > \ \ ][ X ܚX P > \ X K ܙ B ܈ Y ] [ۘ[ [X[ K[XZ[ > \ \ Z [ > \ X K ܙ B >
