COSVisitorException

[Lorena Leishman <lo...@yahoo.com.INVALID>]

When I tried to run this code I get: unreported exception COSVisitorException; must be caught or declare to be thrownpdf.Document. save(FilledForm); 1 error. Do you know why?

package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.acroforms;import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.*;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm;import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextbox;


public class FillTestField {  
public static void main(String[] args)  throws IOException    {  String formTemplate = "Users/Dad/Desktop/TCRM/game plan 12-16.pdf";           String filledForm = "Users/Dad/JavaTest/game plan 12-16.pdf";               // load the document        PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument                .load(new File(formTemplate),null);        
// get the document catalog        PDAcroForm acroForm = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();        // as there might not be an AcroForm entry a null check is necessary        if (acroForm != null)        { // Retrieve an individual field and set it's value.            PDTextbox field = (PDTextbox) acroForm.getField( "Goal" );            field.setValue("Text Entry");                        // If a field is nested within the form tree a fully qualified name             // might be provided to access the field.            field = (PDTextbox) acroForm.getField( "fieldsContainer.nestedSampleField" );            field.setValue("Text Entry");  }
        // Save and close the filled out form.
pdfDocument.save(filledForm); pdfDocument.close();
    }
} 

Re: COSVisitorException

[John Hewson <jo...@jahewson.com>]

Hi Lorena,

That error is from the Java compiler. You need to learn how to use exceptions in Java:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/ <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/>

These sorts of questions aren’t really suitable for the PDFBox mailing list.

Thanks,

-- John

> On 14 Jan 2015, at 09:01, Lorena Leishman <lo...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote:
> 
> When I tried to run this code I get: unreported exception COSVisitorException; must be caught or declare to be thrownpdf.Document. save(FilledForm); 1 error. Do you know why?
> 
> package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.acroforms;import java.io.File;
> import java.io.IOException;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.*;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm;import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField;
> import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextbox;
> 
> 
> public class FillTestField {  
> public static void main(String[] args)  throws IOException    {  String formTemplate = "Users/Dad/Desktop/TCRM/game plan 12-16.pdf";           String filledForm = "Users/Dad/JavaTest/game plan 12-16.pdf";               // load the document        PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument                .load(new File(formTemplate),null);        
> // get the document catalog        PDAcroForm acroForm = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm();        // as there might not be an AcroForm entry a null check is necessary        if (acroForm != null)        { // Retrieve an individual field and set it's value.            PDTextbox field = (PDTextbox) acroForm.getField( "Goal" );            field.setValue("Text Entry");                        // If a field is nested within the form tree a fully qualified name             // might be provided to access the field.            field = (PDTextbox) acroForm.getField( "fieldsContainer.nestedSampleField" );            field.setValue("Text Entry");  }
>         // Save and close the filled out form.
> pdfDocument.save(filledForm); pdfDocument.close();
>     }
> }