Re: How to trim whitespace from options in a combobox on an existing PDF form?

[Gilad Denneboom <gi...@gmail.com>]

Glad to hear you were able to solve it!

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Wojack, Robert (USTP) <
Robert.Wojack@usdoj.gov> 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
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> Onsite Contractor for the Department of Justice
> Senior Tech Lead
> US Trustee Program
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wojack, Robert (USTP) [mailto:Robert.Wojack@usdoj.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:05 AM
> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
> 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:     Robert.Wojack@usdoj.gov Onsite
> Phone Number:    TBD
> Cell#:                     (301)910-9975
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilad Denneboom [mailto:gilad.denneboom@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 4:56 PM
> To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
> 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) <
> Robert.Wojack@usdoj.gov> 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
> >
> >
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