I need to have two different headers in my pdf generated using html2pdf from iText.
Currently I'm 'printing' the headers by using a implemetation of IEventHandler. Like this:
public virtual void HandleEvent(Event #event)
{
PdfDocumentEvent docEvent = (PdfDocumentEvent)#event;
PdfDocument pdf = docEvent.GetDocument();
PdfPage page = docEvent.GetPage();
int pageNumber = pdf.GetPageNumber(page);
Rectangle pageSize = page.GetPageSize();
// Creates drawing canvas
PdfCanvas pdfCanvas = new PdfCanvas(page);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(pdfCanvas, pageSize);
try
{
if (typeof(Paragraph) == element.GetType()) // This is an IElement object
{
Paragraph p = (Paragraph)element;
if (p.GetChildren().Count > 0)
{
p.SetWidth(pageSize.GetWidth() - iLeftMargin - iRightMargin).SetMarginLeft(iLeftMargin);
canvas.Add(p);
}
}
canvas.Close();
pdfCanvas.Release();
}
catch (System.Exception)
{
}
}
Now I need to check if the current page has a specific text (or anything) so I can change the text inside my element object and then print a different header.
It would be really nice if the TagWorker get processed alogside IEventHandler, but it is sequential, and I can't know when i need to change the text in my header.
I am using iText7 to build a table of contents for my document. I know all the section names before I start, but don't know what the page numbers will be. My current process is to create a table on the first page and create all the Link objects with generic text "GO!". Then as I add sections I add through the link objects and update the text with the page numbers that I figured out as I created the document.
However, at the end, what gets written out for the link is "GO!", not the updated page number values I set as I was creating the rest of the document.
I did set the immediateFlush flag to false when I created the Document.
public class UpdateLinkTest {
PdfDocument pdfDocument = null;
List<Link>links = null;
Color hyperlinkColor = new DeviceRgb(0, 102, 204);
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
List<String[]>notes = new ArrayList<>();
notes.add(new String[] {"me", "title", "this is my text" });
notes.add(new String[] {"me2", "title2", "this is my text 2" });
new UpdateLinkTest().exportPdf(notes, new File("./test2.pdf"));
}
public void exportPdf(List<String[]> notes, File selectedFile) throws Exception {
PdfWriter pdfWriter = new PdfWriter(selectedFile);
pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(pdfWriter);
Document document = new Document(pdfDocument, PageSize.A4, false);
// add the table of contents table
addSummaryTable(notes, document);
// add a page break
document.add(new AreaBreak(AreaBreakType.NEXT_PAGE));
// add the body of the document
addNotesText(notes, document);
document.close();
}
private void addSummaryTable(List<String[]> notes, Document document) {
links = new ArrayList<>();
Table table = new Table(3);
float pageWidth = PageSize.A4.getWidth();
table.setWidth(pageWidth-document.getLeftMargin()*2);
// add header
addCell("Author", table, true);
addCell("Title", table, true);
addCell("Page", table, true);
int count = 0;
for (String[] note : notes) {
addCell(note[0], table, false);
addCell(note[1], table, false);
Link link = new Link("Go!", PdfAction.createGoTo(""+ (count+1)));
links.add(link);
addCell(link, hyperlinkColor, table, false);
count++;
}
document.add(table);
}
private void addNotesText(List<String[]> notes, Document document)
throws Exception {
int count = 0;
for (String[] note : notes) {
int numberOfPages = pdfDocument.getNumberOfPages();
Link link = links.get(count);
link.setText(""+(numberOfPages+1));
Paragraph noteText = new Paragraph(note[2]);
document.add(noteText);
noteText.setDestination(++count+"");
if (note != notes.get(notes.size()-1))
document.add(new AreaBreak(AreaBreakType.NEXT_PAGE));
}
}
private static void addCell(String text, Table table, boolean b) {
Cell c1 = new Cell().add(new Paragraph(text));
table.addCell(c1);
}
private static void addCell(Link text, Color backgroundColor, Table table, boolean b) {
Cell c1 = new Cell().add(new Paragraph(text));
text.setUnderline();
text.setFontColor(backgroundColor);
table.addCell(c1);
}
}
Quite more work needs to be done compared to the code you have now because the changes to the elements don't take any effect once you've added them to the document. Immediate flush set to false allows you to relayout the elements, but that does not happen automatically. The way you calculate the current page the paragraph will be placed on (int numberOfPages = pdfDocument.getNumberOfPages();) is not bulletproof because in some cases pages might be added in advance, even if the content is not going to be placed on them immediately.
There is a very low level way to achieve your goal but with the recent version of iText (7.1.15) there is a simpler way as well, which still requires some work though. Basically your use case is very similar to target-counter concept in CSS, with page counter being the target one in your case. To support target counters in pdfHTML add-on we added new capabilities to our layout module which are possible to use directly as well.
To start off, we are going to tie our Link elements to the corresponding Paragraph elements that they will point to. We are going to do it with ID property in layout:
link.setProperty(Property.ID, String.valueOf(count));
noteText.setProperty(Property.ID, String.valueOf(count));
Next up, we are going to create custom renderers for our Link elements and Paragraph elements. Those custom renderers will interact with TargetCounterHandler which is the new capability in layout module I mentioned in the introduction. The idea is that during layout operation the paragraph will remember the page on which it was placed and then the corresponding link element (remember, link elements are connected to paragraph elements) will ask TargetCounterHandler during layout process of that link element which page the corresponding paragraph was planed on. So in a way, TargetCounterHandler is a connector.
Code for custom renderers:
private static class CustomParagraphRenderer extends ParagraphRenderer {
public CustomParagraphRenderer(Paragraph modelElement) {
super(modelElement);
}
#Override
public IRenderer getNextRenderer() {
return new CustomParagraphRenderer((Paragraph) modelElement);
}
#Override
public LayoutResult layout(LayoutContext layoutContext) {
LayoutResult result = super.layout(layoutContext);
TargetCounterHandler.addPageByID(this);
return result;
}
}
private static class CustomLinkRenderer extends LinkRenderer {
public CustomLinkRenderer(Link link) {
super(link);
}
#Override
public LayoutResult layout(LayoutContext layoutContext) {
Integer targetPageNumber = TargetCounterHandler.getPageByID(this, getProperty(Property.ID));
if (targetPageNumber != null) {
setText(String.valueOf(targetPageNumber));
}
return super.layout(layoutContext);
}
#Override
public IRenderer getNextRenderer() {
return new CustomLinkRenderer((Link) getModelElement());
}
}
Don't forget to assign the custom renderers to their elements:
link.setNextRenderer(new CustomLinkRenderer(link));
noteText.setNextRenderer(new CustomParagraphRenderer(noteText));
Now, the other thing we need to do it relayout. You already set immediateFlush to false and this is needed for relayout to work. Relayout is needed because on the first layout loop we will not know all the positions of the paragraphs, but we will already have placed the links on the pages by the time we know those positions. So we need the second pass to use the information about page numbers the paragraphs will reside on and set that information to the links.
Relayout is pretty straightforward - once you've put all the content you just need to call a single dedicated method:
// For now we have to prepare the handler for relayout manually, this is going to be improved
// in future iText versions
((DocumentRenderer)document.getRenderer()).getTargetCounterHandler().prepareHandlerToRelayout();
document.relayout();
One caveat is that for now you also need to subclass the DocumentRenderer since there is an additional operation that needs to be done that is not performed under the hood - propagation of the target counter handler to the root renderer we will be using for the second layout operation:
// For now we have to create a custom renderer for the root document to propagate the
// target counter handler to the renderer that will be used on the second layout process
// This is going to be improved in future iText versions
private static class CustomDocumentRenderer extends DocumentRenderer {
public CustomDocumentRenderer(Document document, boolean immediateFlush) {
super(document, immediateFlush);
}
#Override
public IRenderer getNextRenderer() {
CustomDocumentRenderer renderer = new CustomDocumentRenderer(document, immediateFlush);
renderer.targetCounterHandler = new TargetCounterHandler(targetCounterHandler);
return renderer;
}
}
document.setRenderer(new CustomDocumentRenderer(document, false));
And now we are done. Here is our visual result:
Complete code looks as follows:
public class UpdateLinkTest {
PdfDocument pdfDocument = null;
Color hyperlinkColor = new DeviceRgb(0, 102, 204);
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
List<String[]> notes = new ArrayList<>();
notes.add(new String[] {"me", "title", "this is my text" });
notes.add(new String[] {"me2", "title2", "this is my text 2" });
new UpdateLinkTest().exportPdf(notes, new File("./test2.pdf"));
}
public void exportPdf(List<String[]> notes, File selectedFile) throws Exception {
PdfWriter pdfWriter = new PdfWriter(selectedFile);
pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(pdfWriter);
Document document = new Document(pdfDocument, PageSize.A4, false);
document.setRenderer(new CustomDocumentRenderer(document, false));
// add the table of contents table
addSummaryTable(notes, document);
// add a page break
document.add(new AreaBreak(AreaBreakType.NEXT_PAGE));
// add the body of the document
addNotesText(notes, document);
// For now we have to prepare the handler for relayout manually, this is going to be improved
// in future iText versions
((DocumentRenderer)document.getRenderer()).getTargetCounterHandler().prepareHandlerToRelayout();
document.relayout();
document.close();
}
private void addSummaryTable(List<String[]> notes, Document document) {
Table table = new Table(3);
float pageWidth = PageSize.A4.getWidth();
table.setWidth(pageWidth-document.getLeftMargin()*2);
// add header
addCell("Author", table, true);
addCell("Title", table, true);
addCell("Page", table, true);
int count = 0;
for (String[] note : notes) {
addCell(note[0], table, false);
addCell(note[1], table, false);
Link link = new Link("Go!", PdfAction.createGoTo(""+ (count+1)));
link.setProperty(Property.ID, String.valueOf(count));
link.setNextRenderer(new CustomLinkRenderer(link));
addCell(link, hyperlinkColor, table, false);
count++;
}
document.add(table);
}
private void addNotesText(List<String[]> notes, Document document) {
int count = 0;
for (String[] note : notes) {
Paragraph noteText = new Paragraph(note[2]);
noteText.setProperty(Property.ID, String.valueOf(count));
noteText.setNextRenderer(new CustomParagraphRenderer(noteText));
document.add(noteText);
noteText.setDestination(++count+"");
if (note != notes.get(notes.size()-1))
document.add(new AreaBreak(AreaBreakType.NEXT_PAGE));
}
}
private static void addCell(String text, Table table, boolean b) {
Cell c1 = new Cell().add(new Paragraph(text));
table.addCell(c1);
}
private static void addCell(Link text, Color backgroundColor, Table table, boolean b) {
Cell c1 = new Cell().add(new Paragraph(text));
text.setUnderline();
text.setFontColor(backgroundColor);
table.addCell(c1);
}
private static class CustomLinkRenderer extends LinkRenderer {
public CustomLinkRenderer(Link link) {
super(link);
}
#Override
public LayoutResult layout(LayoutContext layoutContext) {
Integer targetPageNumber = TargetCounterHandler.getPageByID(this, getProperty(Property.ID));
if (targetPageNumber != null) {
setText(String.valueOf(targetPageNumber));
}
return super.layout(layoutContext);
}
#Override
public IRenderer getNextRenderer() {
return new CustomLinkRenderer((Link) getModelElement());
}
}
private static class CustomParagraphRenderer extends ParagraphRenderer {
public CustomParagraphRenderer(Paragraph modelElement) {
super(modelElement);
}
#Override
public IRenderer getNextRenderer() {
return new CustomParagraphRenderer((Paragraph) modelElement);
}
#Override
public LayoutResult layout(LayoutContext layoutContext) {
LayoutResult result = super.layout(layoutContext);
TargetCounterHandler.addPageByID(this);
return result;
}
}
// For now we have to create a custom renderer for the root document to propagate the
// target counter handler to the renderer that will be used on the second layout process
// This is going to be improved in future iText versions
private static class CustomDocumentRenderer extends DocumentRenderer {
public CustomDocumentRenderer(Document document, boolean immediateFlush) {
super(document, immediateFlush);
}
#Override
public IRenderer getNextRenderer() {
CustomDocumentRenderer renderer = new CustomDocumentRenderer(document, immediateFlush);
renderer.targetCounterHandler = new TargetCounterHandler(targetCounterHandler);
return renderer;
}
}
}
It is possible to issue java.lang.reflect.Field to javafx.scene.control.TextField?
For example:
Field[] nodes;
nodes = clase.getDeclaredFields();
for (Field n : nodes)
if (n.getType().getSimpleName().equals("TextField"))
((TextField)((Object) n)).setText("Text");
If you want to modify the TextFields, you need to retrieve the value from those fields (and cast this value to TextField).
The following example should demonstrate the approach:
private TextField t1 = new TextField();
private TextField t2 = new TextField();
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
Button btn = new Button("Say 'Hello World'");
btn.setOnAction((ActionEvent event) -> {
Object object = this;
Class clazz = object.getClass();
for (Field field : clazz.getDeclaredFields()) {
if (field.getType().getName().equals("javafx.scene.control.TextField")) {
try {
// get field value here
TextField textField = (TextField) field.get(object);
if (textField != null) {
textField.setText("Hello World");
}
} catch (IllegalArgumentException | IllegalAccessException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(ReflectTest.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
}
});
VBox root = new VBox();
root.getChildren().addAll(btn, t1, t2);
Scene scene = new Scene(root);
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
}
Reflection is probably a really bad approach to this. Among many problems is that you make the functionality dependent on how the code is written. Specifically, you assume that each text field is stored in a specific instance field in some class. If you change the implementation, e.g. so that you keep the text fields in a data structure instead of maintaining references to them yourself, then your functionality will break. It is bad practice to write code that is so tightly coupled to the actual implementation of the code, for obvious reasons.
One better approach would simply to be to put all the text fields in a list (or other data structure), so you can do whatever you need with them easily. E.g.
public class MyForm {
private GridPane view ;
private String[] messages = {"First name:", "Last name", "Email"} ;
private List<TextField> textFields ;
public MyForm {
view = new GridPane();
textFields = new ArrayList<>();
for (int r = 0; r < messages.length ; r++) {
view.addRow(r, new Label(messages[r]), createTextField(messages[r]));
}
}
private TextField createTextField(String text) {
TextField textField = new TextField();
textField.setPromptText(text);
textFields.add(textField);
return textField ;
}
public void processTextFields() {
textField.forEach(tf -> tf.setText("Hello"));
}
}
Another approach would be to use a CSS lookup. If myForm is some node that is an ancestor of all the text fields:
myForm.lookupAll(".text-field").forEach(node -> {
TextField textField = (TextField)node ;
textField.setText("Hello");
});
but note that CSS lookups will not work until after CSS has been applied (by default, this means after the scene has been rendered for the first time).
Another way, if all the text fields are all contained in a single direct parent (such as the grid pane in the first example), would be to iterate through the child nodes and filter the text fields:
textFieldParentNode.getChildrenUnmodifiable().stream()
.filter(TextField.class::isInstance)
.map(TextField.class::cast)
.forEach(tf -> tf.setText("Hello"));
I am trying to add a Link in my cell table (I just want the item to be underlined and mouse symbol change on hover)
and on click I just want to give a window Alert .
for that i have tried these Options : ( but no luck )
1)
final Hyperlink hyp = new Hyperlink("test", "test");
Column<EmployerJobs, Hyperlink> test = new Column<EmployerJobs, Hyperlink>(new HyperLinkCell())
{
#Override
public Hyperlink getValue(EmployerJobs object)
{
return hyp;
}
};
Problem with option 1 is , it takes me to navigation page "test", whereas I dont want to go any other page i just want a window alert.
2)
Column<EmployerJobs, SafeHtml> test = new Column<EmployerJobs, SafeHtml>(new SafeHtmlCell())
{
#Override
public SafeHtml getValue(EmployerJobs object)
{
SafeHtmlBuilder sb = new SafeHtmlBuilder();
sb.appendEscaped("test");
return sb.toSafeHtml();
}
};
problem with option 2 is I dont know what exactly to return here and its not getting underlined.
3) at last i am trying to add anchor in my celltable with a compositecell(as ideally i want three different anchors in my ONE cell)
final Anchor anc = new Anchor();
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
list.add(anc);
CompositeCell ancCell = new CompositeCell(list);
Column testColumn1 = new Column<EmployerJobs, Anchor>(ancCell) {
#Override
public Anchor getValue(EmployerJobs object) {
return anc;
}
};
Option 3 is giving some exception .
If you can help me get working any of the above option, I'll be grateful
Thanks
You are doing it totally wrong. You need to use ActionCell for stuff like this or create your own cell. Example code:
ActionCell.Delegate<String> delegate = new ActionCell.Delegate<String>(){
public void execute(String value) { //this method will be executed as soon as someone clicks the cell
Window.alert(value);
}
};
ActionCell<String> cell = new ActionCell<String>(safeHtmlTitle,delegate){
#Override
public void render(com.google.gwt.cell.client.Cell.Context context, //we need to render link instead of default button
String value, SafeHtmlBuilder sb) {
sb.appendHtmlConstant("<a href='#'>");
sb.appendEscaped(value);
sb.appendHtmlConstant("</a>");
}
};
Column testColumn1 = new Column<EmployerJobs, String>(cell) {
#Override
public String getValue(EmployerJobs object) {
//we have to return a value which will be passed into the actioncell
return object.name;
}
};
I recommend to read official documentation for Cell Widgets, since it is pretty much everything what you need to know about cell widgets.
I want one of my table columns to have a deleteButton.
ActionCell<Entrata> deleteCell = new ActionCell<Entrata>("x",new Delegate<Entrata>() {
#Override
public void execute(Entrata object) {
// rpc stuff....
}
});
Ok but this line generates an error:
Column<Entrata,Entrata> deleteColumn = new Column<Entrata, Entrata>(deleteCell);
"Cannot instantiate the type Column"
What do you think?
Here you go with working code:
Assumptions:
TYPE - Is the class of the data you show in rows of Cell Table it the same because I assume you want reference to the instance of data when you going to delete it
public class DeleteColumn extends Column<TYPE, TYPE>
{
public DeleteColumn()
{
super(new ActionCell<TYPE>("Delete", new ActionCell.Delegate<TYPE>() {
#Override
public void execute(TYPE record)
{
/**
*Here you go. You got a reference to an object in a row that delete was clicked. Put your "delete" code here
*/
}
}));
}
#Override
public TYPE getValue(TYPE object)
{
return object;
}
};
From the doku:
A representation of a column in a table. The column may maintain view data for each cell on demand. New view data, if needed, is created by the cell's onBrowserEvent method, stored in the Column, and passed to future calls to Cell's
So you have to declar it something like this:
Column<String, String> colum = new Column<String, String>(null) {
#Override
public String getValue(String object) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
};
Still I don't exactly know how you implement the delete button, so it would be nice if you can give us the rest of your code.
This works
//table = initialized CellTable with content already loaded
ActionCell editCell = new ActionCell<EmployeeObject>("remove", new ActionCell.Delegate<EmployeeObject>() {
public void execute(EmployeeObject object){
List<EmployeeObject> list = new ArrayList<EmployeeObject>(table.getVisibleItems());
for(int i = 0; i < list.size(); i ++){
if(object.getFirstname().equals(list.get(i).getFirstname())){
list.remove(i);
break;
}
}
table.setRowData(list);
}
});
Column<EmployeeObject, ActionCell> editColumn = (new IdentityColumn(editCell));